N.Y. LAB Law § 704 — New York Code / Act LAB / Article 20 / Section 704
Unfair labor practices
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§ 704. Unfair labor practices. It shall be an unfair labor practice\nfor an employer:\n  1. To spy upon or keep under surveillance, whether directly or through\nagents or any other person, any activities of employees or their\nrepresentatives in the exercise of the rights guaranteed by section\nseven hundred three.\n  2. To prepare, maintain, distribute or circulate any blacklist of\nindividuals for the purpose of preventing any of such individuals from\nobtaining or retaining employment because of the exercise by such\nindividuals of any of the rights guaranteed by section seven hundred\nthree.\n  3. To dominate or interfere with the formation, existence, or\nadministration of any employee organization or association, agency or\nplan which exists in whole or in part for the purpose of dealing with\nemployers concerning terms or conditions of employment, labor disputes\nor grievances, or to contribute financial or other support to any such\norganization, by any means, including but not limited to the following:\n(a) by participating or assisting in, supervising, controlling or\ndominating (1) the initiation or creation of any such employee\norganization or association, agency, or plan, or (2) the meetings,\nmanagement, operation, elections, formulation or amendment of\nconstitution, rules or policies, of any such employee organization or\nassociation, agency or plan; (b) by urging the employees to join any\nsuch employee organization or association, agency or plan for the\npurpose of encouraging membership in the same; (c) by compensating any\nemployee or individual for services performed in behalf of any such\nemployee organization or association, agency or plan, or by donating\nfree services, equipment, materials, office or meeting space or anything\nelse of value for the use of any such employee organization or\nassociation, agency or plan; provided that, an employer shall not be\nprohibited from permitting employees to confer with him during working\nhours without loss of time or pay.\n  4. To require an employee or one seeking employment, as a condition of\nemployment, to join any company union or to refrain from forming, or\njoining or assisting a labor organization of his own choosing.\n  5. To encourage membership in any company union or discourage\nmembership in any labor organization, by discrimination in regard to\nhire or tenure or in any term or condition of employment: Provided that\nnothing in this article shall preclude an employer from making an\nagreement with a labor organization requiring as a condition of\nemployment membership therein, if such labor organization is the\nrepresentative of employees as provided in section seven hundred five.\n  6. To refuse to bargain collectively with the representatives of\nemployees, subject to the provisions of section seven hundred five.\n  7. To refuse to discuss grievances with representatives of employees,\nsubject to the provisions of section seven hundred five.\n  8. To discharge or otherwise discriminate against an employee because\nhe has signed or filed any affidavit, petition or complaint or given any\ninformation or testimony under this article.\n  9. To distribute or circulate any blacklist of individuals exercising\nany right created or confirmed by this article or of members of a labor\norganization, or to inform any person of the exercise by any individual\nof such right, or of the membership of any individual in a labor\norganization for the purpose of preventing individuals so blacklisted or\nso named from obtaining or retaining employment.\n  10. To do any acts, other than those already enumerated in this\nsection, which interfere with, restrain or coerce employees in the\nexercise of the rights guaranteed by section seven hundred three.\n  11. To utilize any state funding appropriated for any purpose to train\nmanagers, supervisors or other administrative personnel regarding\nmethods to discourage union organization, or to discourage an employee\nfrom participating in a union organizing drive.\n