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- Title
Disloyalty! Does Jefferson Standard Stalk Still?
- Authors
Finkin, Matthew W.
- Abstract
In Endicott Interconnect Technologies, Inc. v. NLRB, 453 F.3d 532 (D.C. Cir. 2006), the District of Columbia Circuit breathed fresh life into the Supreme Court's 1953 decision in Jefferson Standard Broadcasting. The Court rejected the decision of the National Labor Relations Board to hold that public criticism of an employer's product or the quality of its management is so disloyal as to be cause to dismiss the employee irrespective of the context of the utterance. The Labor Board extended this in Five Star Transportation, Inc., 349 NLRB No. 8 (2007). This Article argues that the legal and ideological underpinnings of Jefferson Standard have become thoroughly eroded over the ensuing half century; that, at best, disloyalty is worthless as a guide to decision; at worst, it chills speech of social value, and ought to be abandoned.
- Subjects
WASHINGTON (D.C.); UNITED States; ACTIONS &; defenses (Law); ENDICOTT Interconnect Technologies Inc.; EMPLOYERS; SOCIAL values; DISLOYALTY; MANAGEMENT; UNITED States. Supreme Court; UNITED States. National Labor Relations Board
- Publication
Berkeley Journal of Employment & Labor Law, 2007, Vol 28, Issue 2, p541
- ISSN
1067-7666
- Publication type
Article