By Doug Cunningham

FedEx has until July 14th to answer an National Labor Relations Board charge that the company engaged in a pattern of illegal anti-union actions against its workers in New Jersey. The NLRB-issued complaint says FedEx fired some workers trying to organize a union, threatened others and promised preferential treatment for workers who voted against the union. Jerald Cureton, a lawyer representing the workers, says the NLRB scheduled a hearing on this charge for July 31st. FedEx workers at the Barrington, New Jersey terminal are the first FedEx workers in the country to go union and FedEx is fighting the workers’ choice to organize.