Bargaining Case Summary

The textbook states that a bargaining unit should consist of employees that “share a community of interest regarding working conditions” (Cihon & Castagnera, 2014, p. 400) and that it can’t include professional and non-professional employees (Cihon & Castagnera, 2014, p. 401) which might be the case here because there are technical workers whose roles could be considered professiona . I’m going to assume that the clerical and technical employees share the same common interests on working conditions as the production employees and that the technical employees are not considered professional roles. Otherwise, I don’t think they can join that union (unless I misunderstood the textbook). In that case, the demand can be disregarded.
Going on the assumption they can join that union, considering the employer received feedback from employees that they didn’t want to join it, I would proceed with an election via secret ballot. I wouldn’t be opposed considering I already have production employees represented by the union, and the group can file a petition to hold an election anyway. Further, as some employees have …show more content…
We know there are employees that want to join the union and only a few have advised me that they do not want to join. We don’t know if the majority want the union, but due to fact I’m receiving more about numbers that want to join versus those who don’t want to join it would be best with just moving forward versus delaying which can then result in more distractions within the plant. We already have our production employees as part of a union and those interactions and negotiations have not been negative as of today’s date. Conducting a survey could also result in inaccurate results as some employees may respond with the answer they think we want to hear for fear of retribution. Allowing an anonymous vote would make all employees feel more comfortable and allow everyone to have a