{"title":"Beware of Group Efforts to Complain About Working Conditions","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/mare.31162","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<p>In a unionized workplace, employees act collectively and through their union representatives to address concerns regarding terms and conditions of employment. In a union-free setting, there are obviously no such representatives; however, employees can still act in a concerted manner to complain about working conditions. Importantly, they have the same legal protections to do so regardless of whether they are unionized. A recent decision of the NLRB in <i>Hiran Management</i>, 371 NLRB No. 130 (2024), highlights the point and the risks to union-free strategies that improper management action can generate.</p>","PeriodicalId":100883,"journal":{"name":"Management Report for Nonunion Organizations","volume":"48 4","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2025-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Management Report for Nonunion Organizations","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mare.31162","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"","JCRName":"","Score":null,"Total":0}
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In a unionized workplace, employees act collectively and through their union representatives to address concerns regarding terms and conditions of employment. In a union-free setting, there are obviously no such representatives; however, employees can still act in a concerted manner to complain about working conditions. Importantly, they have the same legal protections to do so regardless of whether they are unionized. A recent decision of the NLRB in Hiran Management, 371 NLRB No. 130 (2024), highlights the point and the risks to union-free strategies that improper management action can generate.