Board Deems Employees’ Lengthy and Detailed Social Media Comments Unprotected

After years of NLRB decisions protecting employees’ profanity-laced tirades and outright threats against management in social media stream-of-consciousness posts, the Board recently said “no.” In Richmond District Neighborhood Center, 361 NLRB No. 74 (2014), the NLRB upheld the ALJ’s decision that two employees’ Facebook plan for insubordination veered into the land of “unprotected” activity under the NLRA.