Article: News from USW: Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc., to Compensate Former Employee It Fired for Calling Strike-Breaker a "Scab".

ERWIN, Tenn. -- News from USW: Nuclear Fuel Services (NFS) in Erwin has agreed to compensate a salaried employee who the company discharged earlier in the year for referring to a replacement worker who crossed the union picket line at the plant during a strike as "a scab."

Kim Gordon was a salaried employee and not represented by the union, but the USW helped her file a charge for wrongful termination against the company with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) after she was fired August 17. That day she received a letter stating that NFS was terminating her for "a work attitude not in keeping with the core values of NFS."

The Aug. 17 letter ...

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