A group looking to protect the right to organize demands that Dave Portnoy be required to tweet an apology for efforts to punish any unionization at his media company.

Dave Portnoy, founder of Barstool Sports, will have to answer to a charge with the National Labor Relations Board that his recent tweets amounted to an illegal effort to discourage his employees from joining a union. "Heard @ringer employees want to unionize," wrote Portnoy on Aug. 12 in a reference to Bill Simmons' media group. "Little refresher how I feel about unions." Portnoy linked to a post he authored four years ago upon a vote by Gawker staffers to unionize. The post stated, "BAHAHA! I hope and I pray that Barstool employees try to unionize. I can’t tell you how much I want them to unionize. Just so I can smash their little union to smithereens."

Rafi Letzter, a staff writer at Live Science, then tweeted out, "If you work for Barstool and want to have a private chat about the unionization process, how little power your boss has to stop you, and how you can leverage that power to make your life better: my DMs are open." Portnoy responded by tweeting, "If you work for @barstoolsports and DM this man I will fire you on the spot." The exchange gathered notice. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez expressed how this was "likely breaking the law" while Donald Trump Jr. opined, "Picking a fight with @stoolpresidente and @barstoolsports is probably the biggest mistake @AOC has ever made on Twitter."