NLRB Judge Rules Art Directors Guild Fired Accountant For Unionizing Guild’s Staff

deadline.com:

In a stinging rebuke of the Art Directors Guild and Chuck Parker, its national executive director, an NLRB administrative law judge has found that Parker “unlawfully” fired the guild’s longtime accountant “in retaliation” for her successful efforts to form a union among the guild’s staff.

In a statement to Deadline, the guild said that “This is an ongoing matter and will be appealed.” Nicole Oeuvray, who had been the guild’s head accountant for 16 years, was a leader of the campaign to unionize the guild’s staff back in 2019 under the auspices of Local 537 of the Office of Professional Employees International Union (OPEIU).

The 3,500-member guild, which is one of only three IATSE locals with national jurisdiction, is headquartered in Studio City, Ca.

with an office staff of fewer than 30 employees. In his testimony, Parker described the environment of the smallish office as a “fishbowl.” The campaign to unionize was opposed by Parker and the guild – the “Respondent” in the complaint Oeuvray filed with the National Labor Relations Board in November 2020.