8th Circuit: Jimmy John’s Franchise Owner Within Rights To Fire Union Workers

Mealey's (July 6, 2017, 11:54 AM EDT) -- ST. LOUIS — The full Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals on July 3 ruled that a company that owns 10 Jimmy John’s Franchise LLC sandwich shops in the Twin Cities was within its rights to fire six union workers who circulated posters critical of the company’s sick leave policy, saying they made a “sharp, public disparaging attack upon the quality of the company’s product and its business policies, in a manner reasonably calculated to harm the company’s reputation and reduce its income” (MikLin Enterprises Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board, et al., No. 14-3099, 8th Cir., 2017 U.S. App. LEXIS 11792)....