In early 2020, I worked at a club in Central Illinois, called Silver Bullet. After several weeks, I was fired for engaging in protected concerted activity. I reported it to the NLRB and did a really uncomfortable affidavit with a piece of shit investigator named Grant Dodds. I requested to be switched to someone who wasn’t him, and also complained about his fucked up conduct, to which his boss didn’t really seem to care. I started getting hits on my website which I believe were from Grant Dodds, until I emailed him, telling to stop reading. That particular NLRB claim was not found to be meritorious, because the NLRB claimed that they couldn’t find evidence of “interstate commerce,” which is one of the necessities of proceeding with an NLRB claim. Sometimes they search for things like liquor sales, food, or other business transactions that cross state lines. It’s not very difficult to do for most clubs, and I believe this particular branch of the NLRB is just really shitty, careless, misogynist garbage— like Grant Dodds and his boss, Joanne Mages.

I proceeded to find local counsel associated with Shannon Riordan’s firm, and learnt that song downloads from the DJ are considered interstate commerce. I hope that anybody who is struggling to find evidence of interstate commerce remember that song downloads can fit the definition and remove that obstacle, so you can better proceed with holding your club accountable. The NLRB should have known that already, but Grant Dodds did mention that his branch of the NLRB run by Joanne Mages was incompetent.