The Washington Ballet.Wayne Gold, regional director of the National Labor Relations Board National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), independent agency of the U.S. government created under the National Labor Relations Act of 1935 (Wagner Act), and amended by the acts of 1947 (Taft-Hartley Labor Act) and 1959 (Landrum-Griffin Act), which affirmed labor's right , has found "reasonable cause" to believe that The Washington Ballet The Washington Ballet is one of the premiere ballet companies in the United States. The company is an outgrowth of the Washington School of Ballet, which was founded in 1944 by Lisa Gardner and Mary Day; pioneers in American dance. violated the National Labor Relations Act The National Labor Relations Act (or Wagner Act) is a 1935 United States federal law that protects the rights of most workers in the private sector to organize labor unions, to engage in collective bargaining, and to take part in strikes and other forms of concerted when it refused to rehire Re`hire´ v. t. 1. To hire again. two union activist dancers who testified against it at an NLRB hearing (see "Dance Matters," July 2005). Gold has issued a formal complaint against the company; it charges that The Washington Ballet discriminated against dancer Nikkia Parish. The Labor Board has scheduled a trial for Sept. 7. Meanwhile, Brian Corman, the other company dancer fired for union activism, has been reinstated. |
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