EMPLOYER INTERFERENCE, RESTRAINT, COERCION; DEFENSES – Union or Employee Misconduct

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409.00000 – EMPLOYER INTERFERENCE, RESTRAINT, COERCION; DEFENSES
409.04000 – Union or Employee Misconduct

District agent's chastisement of employee who conducted a poll among employee which caused dissension among faculty improper interference with right of employee to engage in protected activity. Certain statements of District agent went beyond bounds of operational necessity and had a coercive meaning viewed in overall context rather than being a legitimate problem-solving conversation; pp. 6-7. District's speech related conduct loses its protection when it carries a coercive meaning as to employee exercise of EERA rights; p. 8.