Assignemnt: Employment Law

Applied Project: Union Avoidance Program

Scenario: Union Avoidance Project

You are a Human Resources manager at your organization (or one you choose). At the current time, none of your employees belongs to a union. However, the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, a national union, is attempting to organize your employees. The senior management of your company appears to be adamantly opposed to the presence of a union at your company and wants to do everything possible to defeat this union drive, including, if necessary:

• Speaking to individual workers, to let them know what management regards as the dangers of unionization, including economic harm to the company and possible layoffs.

• Assembling all workers, in large groups, to speak against unionization, and asking all workers to declare publicly whether they intend to vote for or against the union.

• Making pay changes, both up and down, to certain workers to prove that employees are better off without a union, and may suffer if they play too active a role in organizing.

• Immediately laying off all desk clerks and subcontracting the work to a part-time labor force.

• Other strategies suggested by your research as well. Based on these facts, you are to prepare a union avoidance program for the company's senior
management team. This program should:

• Summarize management's rights during an organizing drive and respond specifically to each of the possible actions listed above.

• Outline your complete strategy in supporting the company's position of remaining union free.

Project Requirements:

This applied project will be in the form of an 8-10 page paper (excluding title and reference pages) that is to be based on a realistic project you would create for the company a) you presently work for or b) one you have worked for in the past or c) one you have chosen.