The NO TIPS Rule
What practices are prohibited from the point of providing the authorization cards to the NLRB? A lot of organizations use the acronym NO TIPS to identify what the company and its managers can't do. No Threats; No Interrogations; No Promises; No Spying.49 An example of each of these factors will help you understand what management can and can't do.
• No Threats managers in the firm can't threaten employees that the company will shut down a facility that votes for unionization and send the work elsewhere, maybe overseas.
• No Interrogations the manager is prohibited from calling an individual employee into the manager's office and asking the employee about union organizing activities on the part of others in the workforce.