NLRB Judge Finds Cablevision Guilty of Violating Labor Laws in New York
National Labor Relations Board Administrative Law Judge Steven Fish found Cablevision and CEO James Dolan guilty Thursday of breaking several labor laws in their ongoing battle with the Communications Workers of America (CWA). The judge ruled in CWA's favor on…
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several claims, including that Cablevision supervisors barred employees from engaging in union activity and that Dolan had increased wages at a non-unionized Bronx location to prevent it from unionizing. Fish found Cablevision not guilty of "surface bargaining," finding that the company negotiated with CWA in good faith. He refused a CWA request to extend its certification to represent Cablevision workers for another year. CWA President Larry Cohen praised the NLRB decision in a statement, saying the NLRB needs to “take immediate action” and the New York state and New York City governments “need to treat Cablevision and all Dolan family controlled entities like the major law breaker that is documented extensively in this decision.” Cablevision said “we call on the NLRB and the CWA to finally cease their efforts to block the vote that Brooklyn employees have twice petitioned for the right to hold.”