NLRB and AAUP are aligned on resisting confidentiality demands

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The AAUP's committee on academic governance says in a draft statement that faculty on governing bodies, asked or ordered to keep proceedings confidential, should demand to know why.

http://chronicle.com/article/AAUP-Urges-Resistance-to/136271/?cid=pm&utm_source=pm&utm_medium=en

Meanwhile, NLRB says that demanding confidentiality with regard to an internal investigation could violate employees' section 7 rights.

http://www.insidecounsel.com/2012/08/13/labor-nlrb-says-requesting-confidentiality-during

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