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What Your Employer Will Have
Their Management Say About Unions:
The union is a third party, an outsider;
The union will disrupt the happy family environment, we've created here;
All the union wants is your dues money; give us another chance;
We just got our wake-up call from you and we're listening;
The union will make you go out on strike;
You will be fined if you cross a picket line;
Unions are corrupt and undemocratic;
The union only wants to run the employer's organization;
We would increase wages and benefits but now we can't because of the
union.
What Employers Will
Do:
Hire a union-busting outfit/consultant
Give employees wage increases or improve their benefits;
Hold captive audience meetings with employees during work time;
Increase the number of staff meetings and the level of communication;
Be nicer or meaner to workers;
Hold numerous management meetings;
Delay the election process with technicalities to break the union
momentum;
Quote union by-laws out of context to distort intent or purpose;
Use press clippings of other unions to convey negative union images;
Convince employees that authorization cards are for other purposes;
Have employees start asking for their cards back;
Create false divisions between workers and blame these on the the union.
What Your Employer
Won't Tell You:
with a union employers cannot reduce your wages, health benefits,
vacation, sick leave, life insurance, holidays, pensions, or other
working conditions without your agreement;
that you've given them every last chance and another one won't make a
difference;
that you can't be fined for crossing a picket line
that workers in a union make sound and rational decisions;
that union delegates or officers cannot "take" you out on
strike--strikes only happen when the workers vote to strike;
that union workers do not bargain themselves out of jobs;
that the union is not an outside, third party; but is comprised of you
and your fellow workers;
that union workers earn, on average, twice as much in benefits alone as
non-union workers;
that without a union you work under "at-will" conditions, with your
employer in complete control;
that a union grievance procedure has a neutral arbitrator, not
management, as the final step;
that a workplace without a union is undemocratic;
that most workers who are aware of the facts believe unions are
necessary and valuable. Think
About it Mandalay Bay Dealers? Are you going to believe these
lies? Or are you going to wake up and fight for what's yours.
BEFORE it's to LATE!!!
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