A pro-union group is applauding District Court Judge David Campbell for holding a small-business owner in contempt of court and forcing him to surrender to a U.S. Marshal. The group, American Rights at Work, calls the owner a union-buster.
David Bowers, owner of B.A.S.S. Electric Inc. in Peoria, had been staring down a court order to re-hire some workers he fired. The court said he wrongly fired them for union activity. The case was tried in Phoenix in 2004.

In other labor news, on April 18 Post Tension of Nevada was found guilty of numerous violations of federal labor law at its Phoenix site. (They have a Tucson location too.)
To sum up the case: the boss told workers they couldn’t meet at a gas station to talk about joining a union. Problem was, that’s where the workers received and cashed their paychecks.
An administrative law judge of the National Labor Relations Board said the company broke the law when it threatened to fire employees if they went out on strike. The workers did strike and were fired, so the judge said the company has to re-hire them with backpay.