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You may discipline in employee if they are violating a company rule. Accordingly, you may not discipline in employee for engaging in union related activity on his own time or when those activities are conducted off the company’s property.  Likewise, you cannot discipline in employee who was speaking to another employee about the union if both employees are off duty at the time, even if they are on the company’s property.

Any employee who engages in union activities during their working hours on the company’s property may be disciplined—because they are violating the company’s policies with respect to outside activities while on company time.  this prohibition applies to employees who pass out union literature on the company’s property to other employees while they are working.

It is important to remember that company policies regarding working time must be applied consistently.  Thus, it is not relevant that employees are engaging in union activity while on company time; rather, what is important is that the employees are not working when they are supposed to be working.  If you find an employee not working when they are supposed to be working, they should be disciplined in a manner consistent with the company’s policies.