Union Successful in Challenge to Board of Directors Vote

When it comes to union-avoidance strategies, success starts at the top. Many times, managers will think of the organization's president or CEO as the “top.” For smaller companies, this may be true. However, for larger entities that are governed by a board of directors, the top shoots past the highest-level executive. Boards can put pressure on CEOs and presidents to implement certain policies, such as union neutrality. It only makes sense, therefore, that unions will try to exert influence at the board level to cause executives with control over labor relations to take non-aggressive approaches to unionization and, by extension, ease efforts to organize.