Home Depot violated the rights of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) by firing an employee who refused to remove a handwritten Black Lives Matter acronym from their work apron, according to a ...

The National Labor Relations Board on Wednesday ruled that Home Depot ... employee after he refused to remove “BLM” (which stand for “Black Lives Matter”) messaging from his work apron.

Lawyers for both The Home Depot and the NLRB submitted ... that if she allowed them to keep BLM on the apron, she'd also have to allow employees to wear a swastika in fairness.

An employee surveys shelves at The Home Depot store on February 20 ... as Antonio Morales — to display the BLM acronym on the apron was a direct response to racial discrimination complaints ...

NPR reports an employee at a Minnesota-based Home Depot filed the complaint in March of last year after being suspended and eventually resigning for having the phrase on their work apron.

The NLRB found that Home Depot broke the law by interfering with employees' Section 7 ... for "Black Lives Matter") messaging from his work apron. In late spring and summer of 2020, the United ...