8th Circuit: Franchisee Workers’ 1-Day Strike Was Protected Under Labor Act

Mealey's (June 22, 2018, 7:58 AM EDT) -- ST. LOUIS — A one-day strike by workers at a Missouri Burger King franchise was protected under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) as any previous strikes they participated in against another employee don’t constitute “intermittent or recurrent strikes,” an Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel ruled June 12 (National Labor Relations Board v. EYM King of Missouri, LLC, No. 17-1944, 8th Cir., 2018 U.S. App. LEXIS 15760)....