Employers often wrestle with union relations or union avoidance issues in
their workplaces. If your employees are unionized, you know that the contract
negotiations process is time consuming and urgent. The preparations and negotiations
extend over a period of months, if not a year or longer. An organization with
a devoted labor relations staff can spearhead these efforts, but other organizations
often lose key staff members while they focus their attention on collective
bargaining.
If your employees are not unionized, you may have experienced or
may yet experience a union organizing drive in your workplace. Employers
are placed in a precarious
position during an organizing campaign and need to ensure that their supervisors
know what to say and do and what not to say and do. The wrong supervisory
actions can lead to costly charges filed against you with the National Labor
Relations
Board.
The Human Resource Department can effectively assist you with
your labor relations work in the following ways:
Contract Negotiations Preparation including historical analysis, general
research, competitive wage and benefit surveys, employee surveys, and costing
analysis.
Contract Tools including a current labor relations analysis form,
wage and benefit survey, costing spreadsheets, and proposal tracking forms.
Contract Policy and Program Development to ensure competitive and legally
appropriate policy and program language to be proposed.
Chief Spokesperson
Responsibilities throughout the contract preparations and negotiations
phases.
Union Avoidance Counseling and Training including comprehensive risk
assessment, recommendations to minimize risk, and supervisory training.
Our project managers have extensive labor experience and are highly qualified
to assist your organization in dealing with these issues. In addition, we partner
with highly competent labor attorneys if circumstances require.
