The lawyer who brought the charges said an internal email from Penn to his employees amounted to coercive conduct that could negatively affect young workers. AdvertisementThe comments spurred Penn to write an impassioned, 2,200-word email in which he chastised the commenters. Their attorney, Mathew Rosengart, confirmed Friday that the group refused a settlement offer with the NLRB based on the “utter lack of legal merit” of the charges, and noted that no CORE employees or unions protested Penn’s statements. Attorneys for Penn also noted that CORE was working closely with and at the behest of the city. Penn, a polarizing figure in Hollywood, founded CORE after the destructive and deadly 2010 earthquake in Haiti.

Source: Los Angeles Times October 30, 2021 00:26 UTC