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THE INDUSTRY ADVISOR
By Gene Levine - www.genelevine.com
The number one maxim of union avoidance is, "you can’t lose an election you don’t have." Unions have a right to try to organize dissatisfied employees so the goal of your anti-union efforts is to use legal pro-active prevention activities. Only the constraint of space prohibits me from listing all the things you could and should do. The entire arsenal however is available in our "Complete Union Avoidance Manual."
Many people in management get tired of dealing with other people properly so they never get around to do what they're paid to do. Well, wake up now because when unions begin to organize your company, they'll succeed where you've failed. A primary union deterrent therefore is best explained by James W. Wimberly Jr., the distinguished Atlanta-based labor attorney and senior partner of Wimberly, Lawson, Steckel, Nelson & Schneider, P.C. Wimberly says, "If a company’s supervisors are well trained and people-oriented, where employees feel they are communicated to and being treated fairly, the company reduces their risk of ever being a union target."
- Terminated employees or strangers talking with your employees after work.
- Union leaflets in trashcans or littering the parking lot.
- Groups of employees act nervously or stop talking when supervisors approach.
- Employees suddenly begin asking questions about company policies, wages, fringe benefits, and working conditions and how the Company feels about Unions.
- Increased trips to the restrooms during work.
- Increased complaints to governmental regulators.
- An effort by employees to get names or addresses of other workers.
- Increased unrest and outspokenness from workers regarding major changes.
If any of the above surface, you’re becoming a target.
Whether unions are snooping around or not, you can profit from the experiences of companies who lost elections to unions. Studies of those companies that were ultimately decimated by losing to the unions, clearly revealed that they first became vulnerable to union attacks by practicing, knowingly or unknowingly, any or all of the following eight activities; . . .
THE EIGHT COMPANY ACTIVITIES THAT INVITE UNIONIZATION . . .
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