Missoula’s DirecTV facility charged with union busting

The federal agency that investigates unfair labor practices recently called out Missoula’s DirecTV call center.

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) accused DirecTV of illegally terminating an employee at its Missoula call center for organizing a strike and attempting to form a union. On Monday, two days before a scheduled trial, the two sides settled the case.

Last summer DirecTV fired employee Mark Wade Smith, 26, for engaging in "concerted activities with other employees for the purposes of mutual aid and protection, by soliciting support for union organizing and concerted opposition to [DirecTV’s] changes in incentive pay," the NLRB alleged in its Jan. 29 complaint.

by Matthew Frank

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