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Sharing Is Airing: Employee Concerted Activity On Social Media After Hispanics United, Ryan Kennedy
Sharing Is Airing: Employee Concerted Activity On Social Media After Hispanics United, Ryan Kennedy
Duke Law & Technology Review
Section 7 of the United States’ National Labor Relations Act allows groups of American workers to engage in concerted activity for the purposes of collective bargaining or for “other mutual aid or protection.” This latter protection has been extended in cases such as Lafayette Park Hotel to workers outside the union context. Starting in 2005, the National Labor Relations Board increasingly signaled to employers that concerted activity may take place on social media such as Facebook. However, the Board proper delivered its first written opinion articulating these rules in the 2012 case of Hispanics United of Buffalo, Inc. There, the …