Collective Bargaining. Visco, Inc., provides Internet services.

Visco and the Internet Workers of America (IWA) have entered into a collective bargaining agreement covering installation and maintenance employees. At one time, Visco supported annual blood drives and worked with IWA and charitable organizations to jointly set dates, arrange appointments, and adjust work schedules for the drives. For each drive, about a thousand employees, including managers, spent up to four hours traveling to a donor site, giving blood, recovering, and returning to their jobs. Employees received full pay for the time.

In 2010, Visco told IWA that due to economic conditions, it would no longer allow employees to participate in the drives

“on Company time.” IWA fi led a complaint with the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), asking that Visco be ordered to bargain over the decision. Did Visco commit an unfair labor practice? Should the NLRB grant IWA’s request? Why or why not? [Visco New York, Inc. v. National Labor Relations Board, 360 F.3d 206 (D.C.Cir. 2004)]