QUESTION $20$

$5$ points

You have just been hired as the new Assistant Human Resources Manager at your firm, having worked your way up from the factory floor to the administrative suite. During your briefing for the new job, you are told that the firm has learned that its employees are attempting to unionize, a move which the firm has vowed to fight. As part of that effort, your boss, the HR Manager, has asked you to privately talk to some of your former co$-$workers on the factory floor to see what their thinking is$,$ to learn about how many are in favor of unionizing, and who specifically are supporting it$,$ and what might make them change their minds. Among the things they want to know is what would work better$-$threats of reprisals against those supporting a union or promises of benefits to those who oppose it$.$ Of the following choices, which is your best option?

a$.$

Tell them you would be glad to talk informally with your former co$-$workers to find out their attitudes about unionization and why this has come up$,$ and that speaking benefits would be acceptable, while discussing reprisals and an unfair labor practice

b$.$ Tell them you can't do what they ask because it is illegal

c$.$ Do as they ask; none of it is illegal

d$.$

Tell them you would be glad to talk informally with your former co$-$workers to find out their attitudes about unionization and why this has come up$,$ but that speaking about reprisals and benefits would be an unfair labor practice