Keep Your Union-Free Advantage
Duration: 90 minutes
Speaker: Thomas Fredericks
This webinar will cover the following areas:
- Create your union-free action plan: Once a Union drive begins, you cannot make changes.
- Prepare for a Union drive: a recent NLRB rule will reduce your response time to less than 20 days.
- Know what to do to avoid NLRB Unfair Labor Practice Charges.
- Why do employees vote for Unions? Discover techniques that avoid Unions and create a positive, high production, and profitable working environment.
Agenda
What it costs employers to have a Union:
- Union free workforces save more than 30% in operating costs.
- Collecting union dues, paying labor attorneys during labor negotiations, grievances, whistleblowers, professional contract administration, higher benefit costs
- Having to fire employees who won't join the union.
- Losing customers who worry about strikes, slowdowns, and sabotage.
The Labor Law- how the NLRB can establish unions without elections:
- Your Labor Relations IQ; questions you must answer.
- Union campaign tactics and strategies.
- The NLRB's certification election process.
- What you should and should not do: management's election campaign.
Why employees vote for Unions:
- Employers get the unions they deserve.
- What employees want from their jobs.
- What specific employment policies compete with union promises.
Positive Employee Relations and Making Unions Unnecessary
- Establish policies to discourage unionization- become super competitive.
- How to communicate your position on unions.
- Employee safety, health, and environmental programs.
- Compensation and benefits.
Answers to your Labor Relations IQ Quiz.
- Labor law violations which certify a union without an election.
- Unfair labor practices.
- Supervisor training.
Logistics
- 90-minute webinar (Travel-Free) delivered over the phone and Internet.
- Unlimited listeners per connection - bring the entire department.
- Q&A session with the expert.
This event will be presented live by phone together with a PowerPoint presentation to be viewed on your computer. Internet access is not required for phone-only participants. The PowerPoint slides will be provided shortly before the event. Once you register, you will receive an email which is your receipt and which includes your instructions for dialing in and logging on. You will also receive an email reminder 24 hours before the webinar.
What is a webinar?
A webinar is a live Internet based seminar. Webinars are a way for participants in many different locations to see and hear a presentation and view PowerPoint slides. You can also have your colleagues attend the webinar using one connection.
What kind of equipment do I need?
You will need a computer with an Internet connection (high speed service such as DSL or cable works best) and a telephone.You may listen to the webinar through your computer speakers, in which case you will not need to use a telephone connection. Internet access is not required for phone-only participants, but you will not be able to see the speaker’s slides.
How can I share the webinar with my colleagues who may not be able to attend the event?
CDs of each program will be available for sale and can be shared with your business associates.
Can I get a copy of the PowerPoint slides used in the webinar?
The PowerPoint slides will be available on the materials page link in the confirmation email that will be sent to you no later than the morning of the day a webinar is presented.
How do I ask a question during the webinar? Will my question be answered during the presentation?
A question and answer session will be scheduled at the end of each webinar. You can then ask a question by typing it into the question box that will be provided to you duringthe webinar. You may also ask a question through the telephone connection. As many questions as possible will be answered during the Question and Answer period.