§ 888g.5 - Activities prohibited in the Air Force.  


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  • (a) Negotiation or Collective Bargaining. Air Force commanders and supervisors will not engage in negotiation or collective bargaining.

    (b) Strikes and Other Concerted Activities. Military members of the Air Force will not:

    (1) Engage in any strike, slowdown, work stoppage, or other collective job-related action with respect to terms or conditions of military service, or

    (2) Picket for the purpose of causing or coercing other military members of the Air Force to engage in a strike, slowdown, work stoppage, or other collective job-related action related to terms or conditions of military service.

    (c) Recruitment Efforts. (1) No person will conduct or attempt to conduct a demonstration, meeting, protest, march, or engage in or attempt to engage in speechmaking, picketing, leafleting, or other similar activity on an Air Force installation for the purpose of forming, recruiting military members for, or soliciting money or services for any organization that:

    (i) Engages or is substantially likely to engage in any activity prohibited by this part; or

    (ii) Proposes or holds itself out as proposing to engage in negotiation or collective bargaining on behalf of military members of the Air Force; or

    (iii) Proposes or holds itself out as proposing to represent military members of the Air Force to the military chain of command with respect to the terms or conditions of military service when such representation would interfere with the military chain of command; or

    (iv) Solicits or aids and abets a violation of this regulation by a military member of the Air Force.

    (2) No person will engage in any activity, including but not limited to individual contacts or the posting for public display of any poster, handbill or other writing, on any part of an Air Force installation if the activity or the material displayed constitutes or includes an invitation to collectively engage in an activity prohibited by this part.

    (d) Membership in Certain Organizations. Military members of the Air Force will not become or remain members of an organization under the following conditions:

    (1) After the Secretary of the Air Force determines in accordance with § 888g.10 that the organization presents a clear danger to discipline, loyalty or obedience to lawful orders; and

    (2) The military members know the Secretary has made such determination, and

    (3) The military members intend to promote the conduct upon which the determination is based, and

    (4) The military members actively participate in activities of the organization.

    (e) General Prohibitions. Military members of the Air Force will not attempt to engage in, or solicit the commission of, or conspire with, or aid and abet any person or organization in the commission of any act prohibited in this part.