Labor Union Blog

The National Labor Relations Board handed down a major blow to union organizing during the Christmas break. The board ruled 3-2 that an employer could have a policy prohibiting employees from using the company’s email network for union activities. A company had punished an employee for sending union related emails via the company’s network. The NLRB found that while the company had allowed for some other non-work related emails in the past it had never allowed email use to solicit for groups or organizations. Two of the three emails sent by the employee were viewed as solicitation by the board so they violated company policy.