{"title":"What's Going On at the NLRB?","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/mare.31169","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mare.31169","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As many of our readers know, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is the federal government agency that oversees federal labor law. As relevant to union-free employers, that oversight extends to the conducting of union elections and the rules that govern election conduct and union-free strategies. Since the inauguration of President Trump, much has occurred with respect to the composition of the labor board that has a direct impact on union-prevention strategies.</p>","PeriodicalId":100883,"journal":{"name":"Management Report for Nonunion Organizations","volume":"48 5","pages":"1-2"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143818479","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":"Educating Workers Early","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/mare.31173","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mare.31173","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Is it ever too early to start educating employees about the company's commitment to union-free status? Is it better to wait until after orientation, when new workers are already being inundated with other employer information, so that the message is more clearly delivered and received? The answer to both questions is, No.</p>","PeriodicalId":100883,"journal":{"name":"Management Report for Nonunion Organizations","volume":"48 5","pages":"6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143818512","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":"Even Employers at Low Risk for Union Organizing Should Adopt a Union-Prevention Plan","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/mare.31176","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mare.31176","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100883,"journal":{"name":"Management Report for Nonunion Organizations","volume":"48 5","pages":"8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143818555","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":"PRO Act: Is the Third Time the Charm?","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/mare.31174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mare.31174","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Regular readers of <i>Management Report</i> will recognize the PRO Act. In its prior two iterations, the Protecting the Right to Organize Act has been an effort to revamp the laws governing union organizing and representation in the United States. It is a descendant of the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA), which also failed to become law.</p>","PeriodicalId":100883,"journal":{"name":"Management Report for Nonunion Organizations","volume":"48 5","pages":"6-7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143818539","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":"Don't Respond to Union Attempts to Fish for Information","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/mare.31178","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mare.31178","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100883,"journal":{"name":"Management Report for Nonunion Organizations","volume":"48 5","pages":"8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143818557","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":"Take Care in Balancing Competing Interests","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/mare.31172","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mare.31172","url":null,"abstract":"<p>As the federal government continues to pursue certain initiatives relating to DEI and certain political perspectives, private-sector employers have frequently found themselves on the defensive. Wary of crossing the government's initiatives, many employers have pared back their DEI efforts, for example. Union-free employers must take care, however, to consider how those efforts might impair their union-prevention strategies.</p>","PeriodicalId":100883,"journal":{"name":"Management Report for Nonunion Organizations","volume":"48 5","pages":"5-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143818482","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":"It's Not Only Union Officials Who Get Arrested","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/mare.31171","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mare.31171","url":null,"abstract":"<p>When it comes to union representation, a tried-and-true campaign tactic has been to educate employees on the criminal histories of those who are asking for their votes. Stories of fraud, self-dealing, and ties to organized crime can be readily found through a few internet searches. Such information can be a compelling message for soon-to-be voters who are likely to ask themselves, “Do I want to be associated with, and rely on, criminals when it comes to my own future?” The answer—and subsequent ballot choice—is, frequently, “No.”</p>","PeriodicalId":100883,"journal":{"name":"Management Report for Nonunion Organizations","volume":"48 5","pages":"4-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143818481","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":"Ready to Flip a Coin … Twice?","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/mare.31175","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mare.31175","url":null,"abstract":"<p>One goal of union-prevention strategies should be to avoid a demand for recognition or filing of an election petition. Without either of those two events, you are assured of maintaining union-free status. In fact, many employees who have well-defined and consistent union-avoidance strategies never see an election petition or explicit organizing activity. The strategy is a success and the evidence is the absence of union activity.</p>","PeriodicalId":100883,"journal":{"name":"Management Report for Nonunion Organizations","volume":"48 5","pages":"7"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143818554","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":"Remain Consistent and Persistent in Your Prevention Strategies","authors":"","doi":"10.1002/mare.31177","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mare.31177","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":100883,"journal":{"name":"Management Report for Nonunion Organizations","volume":"48 5","pages":"8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-04-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143818556","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":"Can Union-Free Employers be Pro-Employee?","authors":"Scott Wich","doi":"10.1002/mare.31163","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/mare.31163","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Whenever we discuss unions, we are invariably talking about employees. Unions represent employees, advocate for them, and find that their membership is composed largely of workers. Indeed, under the National Labor Relations Act, a “labor organization” is defined as “any organization of any kind, or any agency or employee representation committee or plan, in which employees participate and which exists for the purpose, in whole or in part, of dealing with employers concerning grievances, labor disputes, wages, rates of pay, hours of employment, or conditions of work.” One cannot discuss unions without also discussing employees.</p>","PeriodicalId":100883,"journal":{"name":"Management Report for Nonunion Organizations","volume":"48 4","pages":"3-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2025-03-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143571317","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}