The National Labor Relations Board a federal agency that supervises labor relations in the US has ruled to give workers in a company the right to use the company email to discuss their work conditions. The decision was adopted with a majority of 3 Democrat NLRB members to 2 Republicans and overturns a 2007 ruling by the then Republican led board prohibiting employees the use of employers’ email. This new ruling could impact how future union campaigns are run in companies.
The December 10 ruling stems from a case in 2012 when the CWA union (Communications Workers of America) requested NLRB arbitrage intervention. Representatives of the CWA were attempting to persuade employees at Purple Communications in California to rejoin the union. Purple provides communications services for the deaf and the hard of hearing. However company management refused to allow CWA communicate with Purple employees via email. This is the reason that CWA gave for its union campaign fail
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