{"title":"Campaigning to Gen Z","authors":"Scott Wich","doi":"10.1002/mare.31106","DOIUrl":"10.1002/mare.31106","url":null,"abstract":"<p>When it comes to union prevention strategies, frequently the focus is on just that: strategies and tools to communicate union-free messaging. As regular readers of <i>Management</i> <i>Report</i> will agree, an essential part of this approach is the element of communication. Communication, in turn, requires an understanding of your audience. After all, talking without accounting for the perspective of the listener becomes largely just noise. Therefore, this month, we focus on communicating a union-free message to the newest generation in the workforce: Gen Z.</p>","PeriodicalId":100883,"journal":{"name":"Management Report for Nonunion Organizations","volume":"47 9","pages":"3-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141921663","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cemex in a Nutshell","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/mare.31109","DOIUrl":"10.1002/mare.31109","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100883,"journal":{"name":"Management Report for Nonunion Organizations","volume":"47 9","pages":"8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-08-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141922063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Do Not Underestimate Government Support for Union Organizing","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/mare.31099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mare.31099","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100883,"journal":{"name":"Management Report for Nonunion Organizations","volume":"47 8","pages":"4-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141487816","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Time Frame from Petition to Election","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/mare.31102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mare.31102","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100883,"journal":{"name":"Management Report for Nonunion Organizations","volume":"47 8","pages":"7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141487826","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Polite Manager Takes Meeting with Union Representative","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/mare.31103","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mare.31103","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100883,"journal":{"name":"Management Report for Nonunion Organizations","volume":"47 8","pages":"7-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141487812","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"OSHA and the Organizer","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/mare.31100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mare.31100","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Although a morning visit from an Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) inspector is never a great way to start the day, it is a necessary aspect of ensuring compliance with OSHA rules. Now, however, with the introduction of an amendment to the OSHA walkaround rule that went into effect on May 31, 2024, that OSHA inspector may be accompanied by a union organizer wearing a pro-union shirt with a QR code on the back for employees to scan. Moreover, by the time they both come knocking at your door, there is likely little that you as an employer can do.</p>","PeriodicalId":100883,"journal":{"name":"Management Report for Nonunion Organizations","volume":"47 8","pages":"5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141487817","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Avoiding an Impression of Surveillance","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/mare.31101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mare.31101","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) continues to take a hard line against employers who pose certain seemingly innocent questions or make apparently harmless statements to a voter during the preelection period. As a consequence, one unwitting query or remark from supervisory or managerial personnel may quash an employer's hard work in a winning campaign effort.</p>","PeriodicalId":100883,"journal":{"name":"Management Report for Nonunion Organizations","volume":"47 8","pages":"6-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141487818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"One Big Happy Family","authors":"Scott Wich","doi":"10.1002/mare.31098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mare.31098","url":null,"abstract":"<p>When it comes to union avoidance, the strategies and tactics an employer needs to pursue can seem endless. Many times, the approaches are focused on money—competitive wages and benefits, for example. At other times, employers focus on less financially costly methods, such as union-free handbook provisions, employee morale initiatives, and progressive discipline rules. All these approaches hold value and, indeed, can be particularly successful when seeking to maintain union-free status.</p>","PeriodicalId":100883,"journal":{"name":"Management Report for Nonunion Organizations","volume":"47 8","pages":"3-4"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141487815","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Amazon Labor Union Blinks","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/mare.31096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mare.31096","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In the world of mergers and acquisitions, outside of the realm of start-ups acquired by mature companies, there are usually winners and losers. The winners tend to be the stronger organizations, while the losers are the weaker side of the equation, often looking for assistance to extract themselves from their current circumstances. The reality is that the weak do not gobble up the strong. Darwin has taught us otherwise.</p>","PeriodicalId":100883,"journal":{"name":"Management Report for Nonunion Organizations","volume":"47 8","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141487811","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"United Auto Workers President in Hot Water","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/mare.31097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mare.31097","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The adage “The taller they are, the harder they fall” has newfound relevance in the world of union organizing. No union personality has stood taller over the past 12 months than the president of the United Auto Workers (UAW), Shawn Fain. He led the much heralded, coordinated strike against the “big three” automakers. He spearheads union organizing efforts among automakers in the Deep South.</p>","PeriodicalId":100883,"journal":{"name":"Management Report for Nonunion Organizations","volume":"47 8","pages":"2-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2024-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141487814","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}