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Inflatable Rat Allowed To Bite Those Using Non-Union Workers

By RICHARD STEIER
Posted 8/2/21

The National Labor Relations Board has upheld an Administrative Law Judge's decision finding that placing "Scabby," an inflatable rat, outside the entrance of an employer who was using a contractor that deployed non-union labor was a permissible form of free speech.

The ruling by a 3-1 vote, with two Republican appointees to the board siding with Chair Lauren McFerran, the panel's only Democrat, upheld the use of Scabby outside an Indiana RV show in 2018 to protest supply company Lippert Components, Inc's use of a contractor the union accused of safety violations.

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