EMPLOYER REFUSAL TO BARGAIN IN GOOD FAITH; BYPASSING EXCLUSIVE REP – Circumvention of Union; Direct Dealing With Employees

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Employers not precluded from freely expressing their views, but are precluded from using direct communications with employees to bypass exclusive rep. or undermine rep.'s exclusive authority to represent unit members; touchstone for determining propriety of direct communications is effect on authority of the exclusive rep.; no violation where employer twice communicated with employees on status of negotiations, and did not misrepresent the positions of the parties or attempt to sway the views of employees through a campaign of communications while maintaining an inflexible position at the table; pp. 19-22.