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Unions Continue to Look to Courts for Leverage Against Employers
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
management report for nonunion organizations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1530-8286
pISSN - 0745-4880
DOI - 10.1002/mare.30637
Subject(s) - leverage (statistics) , lawsuit , representation (politics) , job security , business , labor union , product (mathematics) , law and economics , law , public relations , political science , labour economics , economics , work (physics) , engineering , computer science , mechanical engineering , geometry , mathematics , machine learning , politics
An experienced organizer will use all available tools to market their product—union representation—to your employees. Routine selling points such as promises of increased wages or job security have been around for decades. However, unions are increasingly turning to the courts for leverage against employers and to generate additional selling points. Disputes of public record, where judges might issue formal orders and judgments against an employer, can be a powerful weapon in the organizer's arsenal. The threat is even greater for employers that have some, but not all, of their employees represented by a union. In such cases, the union can have standing to sue on behalf of represented employees and parlay that lawsuit into campaign material for those still to be organized.