Hendricks County Rural Electric Membership Corporation v. National Labor Relations Board

Unfortunately, the majority analysis here leads to a quite unjustifiable outcome. The result is that Mary Weatherman, personal secretary to the general manager of a rural electric membership corporation, has been lawfully fired for signing a petition asking for the reinstatement in his job of a friend and fellow worker who lost his arm in the course of his employment. Whatever may be our discomfiture at the Board’s maneuvers on remand, only the gravest of reasons should lead us to sanction such a lamentable injustice.

While it might have been more politic for the Board to have reopened the…