NLRB Administrative Law Judge Michael Rosas ruled Tuesday that the USPS violated the National Labor Relations Act when it cut postal worker Connie Sanchez from the work schedule in a Ludowici, Georgia, post office in retaliation for her trying to file grievances.
Judge Rosas held that Veronica White, a postmaster at the Ludowici facility, illegally told Sanchez that the union wouldn’t be able to help her after she contacted a representative upon learning that she was pulled from the schedule in May 2018, conduct that the judge said amounted to “clear evidence [of] union animus.”
White had also previously refused to let Sanchez file grievances over other issues, and Judge Rosas said that White’s “shifting reasoning” for cutting Sanchez indicated hostility by White toward her union conduct.