Union busting at it's best

The Feds have now ruled that unions are not job related and, hence, employers may prevent union members from communicating by company e-mail:

Employers have the right to bar employees from sending union-related E-mails using company servers, the New York Times reports.

On Friday, the National Labor Relations Board ruled 3-2 that an employer, using internal company policy, has the right to classify a union-related communication as a "non-job-related solicitation."

The two dissenting board members noted that E-mail has become a major form of communication in the workplace, and disagreed with the majority's assertion that a company's "property rights" trump an employee's right to organize and discuss workplace-related issues with other workers.

The thuglicans have already just about killed off the union movement in this country, so this may finish the job. Bye, bye five day work week.