Agenda

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Agenda

• Hoffman Plastic
• Chapter 3 question 9
• Interference as ULP
• Weingarten
• Epilepsy Foundation
• IRAC workshop
• Term Project brainstorming

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Chapter 3 Question 9

• Rows 1-3 union/Rows 4-6 employer
• Union list the NLRA violations and explain why
• Employer explain why statements and actions were
  not NLRA violations

3
Find the interference which of these employer
statements made during a union organizing
campaign is interference under NLRA? (may be
more than one)

• You arent getting a raise because the union
  upset everything
• Well take care of you if you vote against the
  union
• We are a family here we dont need a union!
• (at meeting)If you are in favor of a union,
  raise your hand!
• Would you speak against unionization at our next
  meeting?
• Unions have hurt the economy!

4
What about these employer actions interference?

• Removing union Yes! stickers placed on a
  plants vending machine before a union election
• Ordering employers to remove these stickers from
  their company-owned hard hats.

5
Weingarten

• Weingarten rights
• Facts?
• Issue?
• Section 7 of NLRA and mutual aid
• Holding?
• Reasoning?
• Amy, a Big Co. employee and union member, wants
  to have a union rep at her annual performance
  review. Supervisor refuses. NLRA violation?

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Epilepsy Foundation

• Facts?
• Issue?
• Rule of law applied by court?
• Holding?
• Reasoning?
• June 2004 NLRB nonunionized employees do not
  have right to have coworker with them
• at harassment investigation interview