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Employer Gets Careless Promoting a “Direct Relationship” in Union Campaign
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
management report for nonunion organizations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1530-8286
pISSN - 0745-4880
DOI - 10.1002/mare.30418
Subject(s) - statutory law , work (physics) , theme (computing) , political science , power (physics) , direct mail , labor union , labor relations , law , public relations , business , advertising , economics , engineering , labour economics , computer science , mechanical engineering , physics , quantum mechanics , operating system
One of management's most persuasive arguments in a union campaign is to emphasize how the direct relationship between employees and the company will change if a union is voted in. In a recent case, Hendrick son USA , 366 NLRB No. 7 (2018), the National Labor Relations Board General Counsel argued that in its efforts to campaign on the theme of preserving the direct relationship between the company and employees, the employer misrepresented employees' statutory rights and threatened more difficult or onerous work conditions.