Penn State University Cognitive Behavioral Therapy Discussion

After reading Dilts, D. (2007). Case 15: Discharge for disruptive conduct, or for protected Union activity?, your group should come to a consensus as to the issues involved and conduct a legal analysis of those issues using the IRAC format discussed in the deep dive in this module. Your analysis should help you to determine whether or not there was a ULP. You can include a dissenting opinion for this case if you cannot achieve a consensus.

Submit that consensus in a brief group essay (500 word minimum). Choose one group member to attach your group’s essay in a reply to this Discussion. Please name your final response “Final Post”.

Important questions to answer in your analysis include:

• Were company rules No. 18 and 29 in violation of NLRA?
• Employees at times write articles or letters for newspapers openly critical of their employers. Should it make any difference in this case that Fuller himself was an editorial employee of a newspaper?
• Although Fuller wrote and published the ?offensive? article on his own time, was his conduct protected under Section 7 of LMRA?
• Do you believe Fuller?s discharge for rules violations was a pretext for terminating him because of his pro-union activities?
• Make sure to consider whether or not there is a legal standard (i.e. case law) discussed in Chapter 4 that should help you to engage in this analysis.