even if the information requested turns out to be irrelevant, the employer has a duty to respond in a timely fashion on pain of violating its duty to bargain in good faith
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Health of patients not “core” to mission of hospital according to NLRB
By Keith A. Ashmus on
In 1987, the NLRB held that a newspaper did not have to bargain with a union over its ethics policy, on the grounds that ensuring public confidence in its news reporting was a “core function” of the paper. Peerless Publications, 283 NLRB 334 (1987). In 2006, Virginia Mason Hospital in Seattle unilaterally implemented an…