Agenda

• Hoffman Plastic

• Chapter 3 question #9

• “Interference” as ULP

• Weingarten

• Epilepsy Foundation

• IRAC workshop

• Term Project “brainstorming”

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

“Find the interference:” which of these employer statements made during a union organizing campaign is “interference”

under NLRA? (may be more than one…)

• “You aren’t getting a raise because the union upset everything”

• “We’ll take care of you if you vote against the union”

• “We are a family here: we don’t 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!”

What about these employer actions: interference?

• Removing “union: Yes!” stickers placed on a plant’s vending machine before a union election

• Ordering employers to remove these stickers from their company-owned hard hats.

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?

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…