Opinion ID: 733366
Heading Depth: 3
Heading Rank: 3

Heading: Employer Videotaping of Employees and Section 8(a)(1)

Text: 25 In Sony Corp. of America, 313 N.L.R.B. 420, 1993 WL 497344 (1993), the Board affirmed an ALJ's finding that an employer had violated § 8(a)(1) by videotaping its employees, and using the footage in an anti-union presentation, without obtaining their consent. See id. at 428-29. The ALJ held that this unconsented use of their videotaped images interfered with the employees' right to assist and support the Union if they so desired, because employees who might wish to speak out in support of the Union would be hesitant to do so after seeing their pictures in an antiunion presentation, whether from sheer humiliation and embarrassment or from a feared inability to explain the videotape's implied message that they opposed the union. Id. at 428. 26