Strategies for Legally Avoiding Unions

Course Description:

The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) promotes collective bargaining between labor and management, and assures workers the right to organize and join a union without fear of reprisal. Despite this federal law protecting workers’ union rights, there are many effective and perfectly legal steps you can take to keep unions out of your workplace. Today, we’re going to talk about those strategies and how you can use them to maintain a non-unionized workplace. The main objective of this session is to help your workplace avoid unions if you choose to do so.

Why “Strategies for Legally Avoiding Unions” Matters:

At the completion of this course, the participant will be able to:

• Understand employee union-organizing rights
• Identify reasons employees join or reject unions
• Recognize signs of a union-organizing campaign
• Take legal and effective action to avoid unionization in your workplace

Key Points:

• Employees have the right to join unions without fear of reprisal.
• Make sure you understand the requirements of labor laws regarding union organizing.
• If you identify the reasons employees join unions and the reasons why they reject unions, you can develop effective and legal strategies to discourage unionization.
• Two-way communication with workers is one of the most powerful strategies to avoid unionization.