EMPLOYER INTERFERENCE, RESTRAINT, COERCION; INTERFERENCE WITH RIGHT TO SELF OR UNION REPRESENTATION; WEINGARTEN RIGHTS – Highly Unusual Circumstances

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408.00000 – EMPLOYER INTERFERENCE, RESTRAINT, COERCION; INTERFERENCE WITH RIGHT TO SELF OR UNION REPRESENTATION; WEINGARTEN RIGHTS
408.04000 – Highly Unusual Circumstances

Under the circumstances—little to no advance notice of the interviews, no forewarning of the subject matter, and inadequate advisement as to how the Office of the Inspector General (OIG) would use the content of the interviews, all against the background of a historically tense relationship between the union and OIG—it was reasonable for the correctional officers who were summoned to interview to assume that no good could come from being singled out by OIG for a private, compulsory interview that, by all outward indications, was a formal investigation, regardless of OIG’s intention. To the officers, the interviews were indistinguishable from a formal investigation. (p. 30.)