The National Labor relations board enforces the various laws and the provisions therein that govern labor relations in the United States of America (Carrell, & Heavrin, 2004). These laws include The National Labor Relations Act, The Labor Management Relations Act of 1947, and The Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act which govern labor union activities and the relationships between employers, unionizable employees and labor unions. These Acts have provisions that expressly forbid employers from interfering in the activities of their employees in the labor unions. They prohibit employers from restraining their employees from organizing, forming, joining or participating in the activities of the labor unions. At the same time, these Acts …show more content…
The NLRA prohibits certain activities among these parties during labor union activities and campaigns with which all they are supposed to comply (Carrell, & Heavrin, 2004). These are: • Employers are not supposed to threaten employees with loss of jobs or benefits as a result of their union activities are any concerted effort geared at propagating the interests of the employees through union activities. • Employers under the NLRA as administered by the NLRB cannot threaten to close or cease business activities if employees choose to elect a union leadership to lead their union activities in their place of employment. • Employers will act in contravention of the law if they promise or offer any special treatment to employees in order to dissuade them from offering their support to labor union or to engage in labor union activities. • Under the National Labor Relations Act, employers will act in contravention of the law if they act punitively towards employees for participating in labor union activities by threatening to lay off employees, transfer them, or allocating them more difficult tasks for their involvement in labor union