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NLRB defies First Amendment ruling, sanctions newspaper

By Sean Higgins
Published June 14, 2013 4:00am ET
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NLRB defies First Amendment ruling, sanctions newspaper
Members of the community fill De La Guerra Plaza in front of the Santa Barbara News-Press newspaper's office during a rally Tuesday, July 18, 2006, in Santa Barbara, Calif. Mass resignations, rallies and charges and countercharges of newsroom meddling and biased coverage have rocked the Santa Barbara News-Press. (AP Photo/Michael A. Mariant) | MICHAEL A. MARIANT

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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