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Dissenters Identify Myriad Problems for Employers in Board's Recent E‐Mail Ruling
Author(s) -
DeMaria Alfred T.
Publication year - 2015
Publication title -
management report for nonunion organizations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1530-8286
pISSN - 0745-4880
DOI - 10.1002/mare.30041
Subject(s) - work (physics) , labor relations , business , law , public relations , labour economics , political science , economics , engineering , mechanical engineering
In Purple Communications , the National Labor Relations Board majority held that the National Labor Relations Act requires employers to allow any of their employees who use e‐mail as part of their jobs to use their work e‐mail to communicate with coworkers and outsiders about their wages and working conditions and about joining a union. What is wrong with ordering employers to let workers spend “nonwork time” sending each other e‐mails about upcoming union meetings or what the union says it could do for them? Where should we start?