Zoe,who works as a retail clerk,wishes to talk with her co-workers about organizing a union.Her employer forbids her from talking with other workers about union activity in the presence of customers and threatens to fire her if she joins the union.Does the employer have a legal right to make this threat to Zoe?

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The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) protects employees’ rights to engage in protected concerted activity, including discussing unionizing and working conditions, with their co-workers regardless of when or where the conversation takes place. An employer is not permitted to threaten or retaliate against an employee who seeks to organize a union, which includes threatening to fire an employee for talking to co-workers about organizing a union. Therefore, option D is the correct answer.

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