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Nuclear Fuel Services, Inc., To Compensate Former Employee It Fired for Calling Strike-Breaker a “Scab”

ERWIN, TENNESSEE -- 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 continued, "You have recently demonstrated your lack of respect for your fellow employees by referring to the newly hired employees as 'scabs.'”

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