How a Union Sizes Up an Organizing Prospect

It is only where noneconomic issues are powerful that a union organizer will launch a campaign on nonpay issues. If the union organizer perceives that the union has little potential for improving compensation and benefits, as would be the case where their own contracts at competing employers do not contain higher wages or benefits, organizing is less likely. When these conditions exist, it is difficult for organizers to make realistic promises of benefits to employees when their own efforts on behalf of employees they have represented for years have yielded no better results.