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The 7th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the NLRB’s finding that Mondelez Global LLC violated the National Labor Relations Act. In 2016 after the current union agreement expired, the relationship with Mondelez deteriorated because of disputes about overtime and unilateral changes to working conditions. Meanwhile, Mondelez opened an investigation into excessive overtime and as a result fired 3 employees involved in union activity for supposed time theft. The 7th Circuit said that “Mondelez's abrupt abandonment of the investigation once the three workers had been terminated was sufficient evidence of anti-union animus.”