A long-running conflict between the Teamsters and the Santa Barbara News-Press has resulted in the National Labor Relations Board sanctioning the newspaper for firing employees who were involved in organizing. The paper contended they were fired because they violated editorial policy. The NLRB’s sanction comes despite the fact that an Appeals Court earlier ruled that doing so would violate the paper’s First Amendment rights.

Bill McMorris of the Washington Free Beacon (and a former News-Press writer) reported:

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