Two years after workers at Jimmy John's chains in Minneapolis voted down union membership in the Industrial Workers of the World by two votes, a judge has ruled that the chain violated the rights of six employees. The employees were fired after they protested the lack of a sick policy at the company using posters. The judge ordered that the workers be reinstated with back pay. The judge said that the posters were protected speech, and that the company violated labor law.
See "Judge sides with workers in Jimmy John's case", Mike Hughlett, Minneapolis Star Tribune, April 22, 2012