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118 W. Va. L. Rev. 841 (2015-2016)
Awakening the Spirit of the NLRA: The Future of Concerted Activity through Social Media

handle is hein.journals/wvb118 and id is 857 raw text is: AWAKENING THE SPIRIT OF THE NLRA: THE FUTURE OF CONCERTED ACTIVITY THROUGH SOCIAL MEDIA I. INTRODUCTION .................................... ......842 II. THE NATIONAL LABOR RELATIONS ACT.....................845 A. History and Purpose of the NLRA ................. .....845 B. Implementation, Interpretation, and Enforcement of the NLRA: The National Labor Relations Board... ........................849 III. EMPLOYEES' RIGHTS UNDER THE NLRA AND THE RULE OF PROTECTED CONCERTED ACTIVITY.......... ...................852 A. Employees' Right to Communicate ................ .....854 B. Protected Concerted Activity ......................... 856 C. The Bounds ofProtection ....................... .....860 D. The NLRB's Position on Analogous Modalities of Communication ............................ .......861 IV. THE ROLE OF SOCIAL MEDIA IN EMPLOYEES' EFFORTS TO ORGANIZE ........................................ ......863 V. ANALYSIS: MAY THE ODDS BE EVER IN THE EMPLOYER'S FAVOR?....865 A. The Shift in Worker Organization and the Disparate Distribution ofPower ..............................867 B. Political Influences and Oscillation in Board Precedent..............868 1. Conversation and Individual Speech as Concerted Action......869 2. Narrowing Employees' Rights to Communicate: Register- Guard........................... ............872 3. A Change of the (Register) Guard: Purple Communications .. 874 C. The Lost Purpose .................................876 VI. THE SOLUTION-DENTURES FOR AN OLD ACT: A LIBfRAL APPLICATION OF THE PROTECTED CONCERTED ACTIVITY DOCTRINE WILL RESTORE THE LOST BITE AND SPIRIT OF THE NLRA................................................. 877 A. The Board Has Shown a Willingness to Take the Jurisprudence in this Direction .......................... .........879 B. Considering the Demographical Changes in Worker Organization, Concerted Action Is the Future of the NLRA..........881 VII. THE ARGUMENTS AGAINST WORKERS' RIGHTS ....... ..........884 VIII. CONCLUSION ................................................. 885 841

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