Submitted by jgarcia571 on Nov. 13, 2022
Guidelines for Supervisors/Managers (including principal investigators) Permissible Actions
- Do take lawful steps to ensure safety and security at University campuses and properties. Report misconduct or threats to safety and security.
- Do take lawful steps to ensure unobstructed entrances and exits.
- Do take lawful steps to ensure continuity of operations. Do plan for potential disruption of ongoing research as a result of a strike. Plans for the preservation of experimental materials and the like must be carefully prepared.
- Do refer employees to their union if they have questions regarding union membership, union activities, and potential strike activity.
- Do plan for supporting student academic progress, including alternate methods of instructional delivery and educational continuity.
- Do stay in close contact with your local Labor Relations and Academic Personnel offices and promptly report threats to safety and security, violence, or other misconduct or dangerous circumstances.
Impermissible Actions to Avoid
- Do not photograph, video, or generally “monitor” employees striking activity for reasons unrelated to ensuring safety, security, and access. This includes refraining from monitoring or perusing employees’ social media.
- Do not survey or communicate with employees, including Senate Faculty, Unit 18 faculty, UAW unit members, and other employees, regarding their intention to participate in or support a strike. Such communication can be found to violate employee rights.
- Do not make statements to employees intended to elicit a response concerning their union activity or union sympathies.
- Avoid tweets and comments on social media (encouraging or discouraging employees’ protected activities, including strike activity) which purport to be official statements on behalf of the University.
- Do not ask employees about their protected activities, their union sympathies nor the protected activities/union sympathies of others. Protected activity includes strikes and protests concerning terms and conditions of employment or bargaining.
- Do not discipline, discharge, reprimand, or otherwise take adverse action against employees for protected activity, including lawful strike activity.
- Do not deal directly, solicit grievances, or make promises to employees, including Senate and Unit 18 faculty and student employees, based on their participation/non-participation in, or support/non-support, for a strike.
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