A Koch-owned company will backtrack on restricting workers’ Facebook posts, under a settlement with the National Labor Relations Board. Under the December settlement, first reported by In These Times’ Mike Elk, Georgia Pacific – a paper company within Koch Industries - will post workplace notices announcing, “WE WILL repeal our Social Media Policy and WE WILL NOT issue policies that interfere with your right to share information relating to wages, hours and other terms and conditions of employment with others, including on social media sites.”
“The Koch brothers claim they believe in free speech and they want their employees to be involved in politics,” Association of Western Pulp & Paper Workers Union vice president Gregory Pallesen told Salon in an email. “However the Koch brothers only want that for themselves and for those who will abide by the Koch brothers’ own rules and regulations.” He added that the settlement “puts the Koch brothers on notice that they are not above the law when it comes to employee rights.”
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