Now suppose if you worked in a place like that, and when you and your fellow employees began organizing to form a union your employer retaliated by threatening you, falsifying records about your work and making plans to close the office completely. Sprint retaliated in all the above ways. The company spied on its workers, ordered supervisors to falsify records and to threaten employees individually and as a group with the loss of their job if efforts to unionize continued. Sprint has always prided itself on its ability to keep unions out of its offices and other facilities. The suit claimed Sprint's closing of the office was merely a ploy to avoid union organizing, an unfair labor practice under federal law.
Sprint contends it closed the office because it was losing millions of dollars per year.
The judge who heard the case agreed with that reasoning although he found considerable fault in Sprint's handling of the matter. The employees however have continued their agressive prosecution of the matter, and now legal appeals are going on before the National Labor Relations Board. The company is continuing to fight, and as a result now the whole situation is starting to enter an international arena. If you ask me, I think Sprint should quit while they are still ahead, admit their involvement and try to gracefully deal with whatever happens at this point. If they continue at this point, their already soiled reputation is going to get sullied even worse.