Essay On Union Campaign

During a union campaign, XYZ are permitted to engage in activities that will not interfere with an employee’s ability to make a free choice in a union election. If threats of reprisal, promises of benefits, or other actions would serve to coerce employees. All management should be extremely watchful about what they tell employees and representatives amid a union sorting out battle. Indeed, even one proclamation that goes too far can put everything else that was said in a more terrible light and eventually get the business in a bad position. Management cannot express the following:
• Tell employees that the supervisors and the company are opposed to unionization.
• Tell employees that the employees do not have to sign union cards and that …show more content…
• Urge employees to vote against the union; suggest that they encourage others to do the same.
• Tell employees that merely signing a union authorization card or application for membership does not mean they must vote for the union in an election.
• Tell employees about any untrue or misleading statements made through an organizer, by handbill, or through any union propaganda.
Management can express the following:
• Promise employees pay increases, promotions, improved working conditions, additional benefits, or special favors on the condition that the employees vote against or refuse to join the union.
• Threaten employees with loss of job or reduction in wages, or use threatening or intimidating language calculated to influence employees in the exercise of their right to support a union.
• Tell employees that they would have received a wage increase except for the start of the union campaign.
• Tell employees that the union will have to strike to obtain concessions from the employer.
• Discriminate against employees who are taking part in union activities by separating them from other employees and by transferring them to undesirable tasks in retaliation for their union