The Loud Speaker

The Loud Speaker Campaign Tactics

Louise E. Chisolm

Professor Fitzpatrick

BUS405 The Labor Relations Process

July 30, 2011

Abstract

This paper is focus on the Loud Speaker Tactics. Acoustical Enterprises makes commercial audio soundproofing material at a company in Echo, South Dakota. The Union filed an appeal with the NLRB requesting authorization as the private bargaining representative of Acoustical manufacture and maintenance workers On December 20. As the election came near, the key issue became the salaries and benefits obtained by the non-union workers at the Echo organization set against those received by unionized personnel at a Bronx, New York, business owned by the Acoustical Enterprise. The Board has petition a cross-application for implementation of its charge. Learning that the Board abused its freedom of choice in confirm the Union as the private bargaining spokesperson of Acoustic personnel’s. The Employer acknowledges refusing to bargain but argued that the Union had been incorrectly certified, and therefore no legal duty to bargain could be imposed (Holley, 2010).

Explain the captive audience, 24-hour rule.

Captive-audience policy applies to a legal rule prohibiting an individual from making intrusive language. This is identified as the captive-audience law. The rule is recognized under constitutional law and labor law. With the labor law, it veto’s a party to a union vote from speaking on company time to a form assembly of workers inside 24 hours of an election. A status quo in which, a company gives speeches that inhibit workers from joining a union; or in some way anti-union. These speeches perhaps may be given to personnel’s on company time and company establishment and only on the condition that it’s not intimidating. The employer is not required to give the union an equal chance to respond to the speech in the course of work hours on organization property. An omission to the overall rule concerning captive audience...