Although no one reading this article would disagree with the premise that employers cannot and should not tolerate bigotry from anyone in their workforce, the NLRB apparently thinks otherwise. In a troubling decision handed down earlier this month, National Labor Relations Board Administrative Law Judge Thomas M. Randazzo ruled that Cooper Tire & Rubber Company violated the National Labor Relations Act when it terminated an employee who hurled racist epithets at African-American replacement workers while the employee was on a picket line.