The Technological Institute Permits Employees to Use Their Work Computers

question 37

Multiple Choice

The Technological Institute permits employees to use their work computers to send personal e-mail messages. The Institute also has a policy that prohibits any employee, whether or not a representative of the Union, from using the electronic mail to distribute any union literature or notice. Employees have sent personal email of jokes, poems and notices of community events, and on such topics as boredom, drugs, higher education, the IRS, mortality, philosophy, TV programs, religion, diseases, and words of wisdom. The Institute

• A) committed the unfair labor practice of discriminating in the hiring or tenure of employment to discourage membership in a labor organization.
• B) committed the unfair labor practice of refusing to bargain with the representatives of the employees.
• C) committed the unfair labor practice of interfering with, restraining, or coercing employees in the exercise of their rights under the NLRA.
• D) has not committed an unfair labor practice because employers are allowed to promulgate and enforce no-solicitation rules.

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