Bosses Can’t Stop Workers From Unionizing Over Company Email “ Federal regulators decided Thursday employers can’t stop workers from organizing and forming unions over company email in their free time. The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which...

Bosses Can’t Stop Workers From Unionizing Over Company Email

Federal regulators decided Thursday employers can’t stop workers from organizing and forming unions over company email in their free time.

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), which oversees labor disputes and union elections in the private sector, reversed a Bush-era policy banning employees from using company email systems to discuss how to improve wages and working conditions during non-work hours.

The case finalized Thursday between sign language interpretation service provider Purple Communications and the Communications Workers of America found that the 2007 decision focused “too much on employers’ property rights and too little on the importance of email as a means of workplace communication, [and] the Board failed to adequately protect employees’ rights,” the decision states.

Purple Communications prohibited its employees from using computers, internet, voicemail, email and any company equipment for anything other than work. Labor union Communications Workers of America petitioned the NLRB to reverse the policy because it was restrictive and interfered in employees’ ability to vote in union elections.

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