Opinion ID: 432103
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Heading: Discipline for solicitation.

Text: 24 Two employees, Menefee and Miles, were reprimanded, and one employee, Miles, discharged for soliciting on behalf of the union in patient care areas in violation of a hospital policy. The policy is not contended to be per se unlawful but rather to have been discriminatorily applied. 25 The ALJ found that the solicitations had been made in patient care areas and in violation of the policy. Also, while there was evidence that other solicitations had been permitted, the ALJ concluded there had not been a discriminatory or sudden enforcement of the rule as to Miles or Menefee so as to make the application to either of them unlawful. The Board, however, reviewed the record at great length, rejected the ALJ's findings of no discriminatory or sudden enforcement of the rule, and found contrary to the ALJ. We too have scrutinized the record, and we cannot say that the Board's finding is not supported by substantial evidence. 26 Enforcement is GRANTED in part, DENIED in part.