Judge Rules Against News-Press Again (Orders Back Pay for Illegally Fired Workers)

[Omaha Steve]

Source: Santa Barbara Independent

By Barney Brantingham

Appeal Expected: A federal labor judge has found that the Santa Barbara News-Press engaged in massive violations of the law.

National Labor Relations Board Administrative Law Judge Clifford Anderson found, among other things, that News-Press owner Wendy McCaw refused to bargain in good faith during contract negotiations and illegally fired contract negotiator-sports writer Dennis Moran and laid-off columnist Richard (“Pip! Pip!”) Mineards. The judge ordered that they be offered their jobs back and get back pay.

Mineards is now a columnist for the weekly Montecito Journal.

No comment has been received from News-Press attorney A. Barry Cappello, but it is expected that the paper will appeal on all counts, as it has a previous NLRB judge’s ruling that a group of fired reporters be rehired. That issue is still on appeal.



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[Ikonoklast]

1. I was fired for cashing the check for my back-pay.

After losing an NLRB appeal, as I was getting the check handed to me my supervisor told me that "I didn't need to cash it."

It was for over $10,000.00 of unpaid overtime.

I cashed it, and got fired.

After I got my job back, a year later, with full back-oay and benefits, I asked my supervisor if the NLRB cashed the check for the fine levied against the company, which was over $100,000.00 for unfair labor practices.

He turned purple, but didn't say a thing.

[Omaha Steve]

3. I got $30,000 back pay in 1984

One check for pay. One for interest. The company kept the union out. Got tax breaks. Mega merger a few years back.

http://www.nlrb.gov/shared_files/Board%20Decisions/261/261-38.pdf

[happygoluckytoyou]

2. CLASS WARFARE..... do you want to play a game ?