Flashcards Studio

Major Policy Matter. Skyline Airways, a private airline with about 900 employees, issues a written policy stating that any employee who forms or joins a labor union, or participates in union activities, will be terminated. Employee Lina Cruz leads a group to form Skyline Unite and posts in the staff intranet urging collective bargaining and higher wages. A supervisor deletes the posts and warns staff not to participate. Two weeks later, Lina is suspended for alleged “insubordination” during a safety briefing, and several other employees who participated in union activity receive disciplinary actions up to demotion. The workers file an unfair labor practices complaint with the NLRC. The company defends by arguing that the right to organize is a major policy matter left to policymakers, and disciplining employees for union activity falls within legitimate management prerogatives. (a)Identify the controlling doctrine governing this scenario and its core proscription. (b)Distinguish legitimate management prerogatives from unfair labor practices in this context. (c)Apply the doctrine to the facts: has Skyline Airways committed unfair labor practices? What relief would be appropriate?