:The National Labor Relations Board said on Monday it was unlawful for Tesla Inc to prohibit employees from wearing shirts bearing union insignia, ruling in a 2017 dispute between the electric car maker and the United Automobile Workers union.
NLRB Chair Lauren McFerran said the decision reaffirms"any attempt to restrict the wearing of union clothing or insignia is presumptively unlawful and – consistent with Supreme Court precedent – an employer has a heightened burden to justify attempts to limit this important right." In a 3-2 decision, the NLRB said that when companies interfere with employees' rights to display union insignia the employer"has the burden to establish special circumstances" and the majority"found that Tesla failed to establish special circumstances in this case."In addition to ruling on the Tesla case, the NLRB also reversed a 2019 decision by the agency involving Walmart Inc, saying the earlier decision"ignored decades of board precedent.
Tesla's"team-wear" policy required employees to wear black shirts imprinted with the Tesla logo or their own black T-shirts without logo. The NLRB found that this implicitly prohibited employees from substituting any shirt with a logo or emblem, including a shirt bearing union insignia. The NLRB said that before 2017 Tesla production employees regularly wore shirts that were not black or had logos and emblems unrelated to Tesla.
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