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Labor Union Relations Do your managers understand what they legally can and cannot do when faced with a union organizing campaign? This two set program provides you with the tools you'll need to lawfully communicate with employees.
Program 1 - Talking With Employees (54:00 minutes) Free Online Preview
Program 2 - Union Realities: That's Just Reality
(28:00 minutes) Free Online Preview
Series includes: Talking With Employees and That's Just Reality or DVD or VHS video. Programs may be purchased separately.
 If your workplace is union free – and you want to stay that way – you can’t rest easy. In this presidential election year, America’s labor unions are working harder than ever to recruit new members and convert more workplaces. One nationwide survey says 60 million U.S. workers who don’t belong to a union today would join one tomorrow if they could. When you’re facing the prospect of a union on your own doorstep, the steps you take to resist those organizing efforts could spell major trouble if you don’t understand the laws and rules that apply to union elections. And even if you manage not to cross any legal lines, you could still poison your relationship with rank-and-file workers for a very long time if you’re not careful. During this strategy-packed audio conference recording, our speaker – a former National Labor Relations Board attorney who’s guided many employers through union elections – will give you proven tactics for defending your workplace against organizing attempts. You’ll learn real-world techniques for coaching your supervisors in handling questions from their workers and for battling union claims and promises without breaking the law. You and your colleagues will learn:
This audio conference will be recorded on Tuesday, April 15, 2008 About Your Speaker: Maria Anastas, Esq., is a partner in the San Francisco office of the law firm Davis Wright Tremaine LLP. She provides legal support, strategic advice, training, and extensive communications guidance to employers during traditional union organizing drives and corporate campaigns. She represents employers before the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), negotiates collective bargaining agreements for employers, provides contract administration advice, and defends employers during grievances and arbitration hearings. A former NLRB field attorney, Anastas has been named “One of the Top 100 Labor Lawyers in America” by the Labor Relations Institute. She earned her law degree at Tulane University. Approved for Recertification Credit This program has been approved for 1.5 recertification credit hours toward PHR and SPHR recertification through the Human Resource Certification Institute (HRCI). For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HRCI homepage at www.hrci.org.
 This is part 2 of a two-program series that uses dramatic vignettes to teach your managers how to understand and deal with most aspects of a union organizing campaign: from the earliest stages through card signing. Managers and supervisors will understand why it is in their own best personal interest to be aggressive in their efforts to stop the union. These motivated managers will learn in detail what they can and cannot do and say at each stage of the process. Includes: A 15 minute DVD or VHS video program.
Recent rulings by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) could cause heartburn for union organizers targeting your best employees. In the “Kentucky River” cases, the NLRB greatly expanded the definition of “supervisor” to include employees who set other workers’ schedules, locations, or projects , even if they don’t have the ability to discipline or fire those workers. The result? Now, those workers cannot take part in any union activities - and that means everything from organizing a local to voting in union elections to just joining as a dues-paying member! These new NLRB standards will shake up union organizing efforts in many different industries. And, more courts will now apply this new definition of “supervisor” in lawsuits based on other employment-related laws. Our experts explain (in plain English) how you can effectively use these rules to prevent unions from attracting your best workers. They’ll tell you how to determine which employees now qualify as supervisors for union purposes. And, you’ll learn the steps you should take in 2007 - from reviewing your job descriptions and performance appraisals to changing your discipline policies and timesheets - to avoid problems with union locals and federal regulators. You and your colleagues will learn:
This conference was recorded on Thursday, February 15, 2007 About Your Speaker: R. Lee Creasman is a partner at the Atlanta office of law firm Elarbee, Thompson, Sapp & Wilson, LLP. He has represented employers in more than 30 union representation elections, and his practice includes significant experience in designing union avoidance strategic plans, assessing clients’ vulnerability to union organizational attempts, and assisting with proactive response plans for companies faced with union organizational attempts. Before joining the firm, Creasman served as senior legal counsel and vice president of human resources for an Atlanta-based corporation. A “Georgia Super Lawyer,” he earned his law degree from Emory University.
 For management to win, when the NLRB orders a Union Representation election, it is essential that employees be informed and educated about the union, its promises and its record. This off-the-shelf video can be the opening communication or a powerful 25th Hour campaign closer. Management is no longer winning the majority of elections. In 2005, unions won more than 60% of the elections. In 2006, union wins continued to increase. Early in 2007, AgTS released this first truly effective off-the-shelf, union-specific video. This video provides detailed and specific information the UAW does not want employees to hear. Designed for use as a stand alone presentation at any point in your campaign; or as your powerful 25th Hour Closing Summary of reasons for employees to vote no to the union. And, this new off-the-shelf video from AgTS, a Paul French & Partners subsidiary, is not only ready now … it’s affordable. If you have 20 or fewer employees voting, you can rent this video at an affordable rate. Larger employers can purchase it for far less than a custom video. And for a small additional fee, this off-the-shelf video can be customized to include issues unique to the situation. Specific unions can be targeted. Editions are available for the UAW, CWA, Teamsters, SEIU, UFCW, Steelworkers, UNITE/HERE, IBEW and IAM. Call about videos on other unions. Length: 24:00 min.
Signing The Union Card explains how to react to a card-signing campaign. Managers and supervisors will understand why it is in their own best personal interest to be aggressive in their efforts to stop the Union. These motivated managers will learn in detail what they can and cannot do and say at each stage of the process. Includes 24 minute DVD or VHS video.
 Do your employees fully understand the risks of bringing the union called Unite into their lives? This hard-hitting documentary video exposes the risks and dangers Unite brings to the workplace. Unite contains information every employee needs to know when your workforce is faced with a unionizing effort lead by the union known as Unite. Indisputable facts are delivered in a memorable manner that stay in the forefront of employees' minds as they approach the ballet box. The subject matter in this thought provoking video includes:
Length: 15:00 min.
 Best Seller! Using dramatizations of union tricks and tactics, this video shows supervisors and employees what they might expect as a Union Card Signing Campaign progresses. That enough signed cards can bring in a union without a vote is clearly explained. Engrossing dramatizations in these videos take employees and supervisors inside a union organizing campaign. They see how employees are tricked or pressured into signing union cards or petitions. They learn how their signatures can result in the National Labor Relations Board authorizing the union to negotiate a contract covering their wages and benefits. They see how they can find themselves union members-all of this-without a chance to vote for or against the union. A father uses his son’s autographed baseball to explain: This four-dollar baseball became a very valuable baseball when a famous player signed it. But if you and I sign a four-dollar baseball, it’s still a four-dollar baseball. But, there are things people like you and I can sign that make them very valuable. . . checks, credit card forms, petitions, package receipts, and union authorization cards. The father turns to his son’s computer, pulls up current statistics on union membership losses, strikes, decertification petitions. Eleven talented, professional career actors in 15 dramatic scenes depict union recruiting efforts and peer pressure exerted to get employee signatures.
Includes: 18 minute VHS Video or DVD.
This program, with specific information about the Teamsters, takes employees and supervisors inside a union organizing campaign through engrossing dramatizations. Employees see how they can be tricked or pressured into signing union cards or petitions - why unions try to organize them - what steps they can take to stop a union drive. And, why they should stop the drive. Videos specific to nine different unions are available. Employees and supervisors see how and why professional union salesmen and some fellow employees try to trick or pressure them into signing union cards or petitions - how their signatures can cause the NLRB to order their company to negotiate a union contract, a contract that can result in unexpected and undesirable changes in employees wages and benefits - how employees can find themselves members of a union, dues paying members - all without a chance to vote for or against the union. Choose either a Caucasian or African-American principal character, select other specific union editions, UAW, CWA, IAM, SEIU, UFCW, UNITE, IBEW or Steelworkers. Each provides facts and figures on that union. Or select the generic edition, use it as your basic union avoidance training program, before you’re the target of a union drive. When you show employees and managers the dangers inherent in signing a union card, you discourage union authorization card signing.
 This complete compliance resource covers 150 hot employment law topics by state, including: employee rights, discrimination, employment at will, labor relations, privacy, workers' compensation, child labor, affirmative action, and much more. Need to know how federal labor law differs from your state? It’s easy! Quick Guide to Employment Law provides you with easy-to-use charts comparing federal to state human resource regulations … so you can see which takes precedence. Don’t waste your valuable time researching the answers to employment law topics. Just open up the Quick Guide to Employment Law and get capsule summaries and comparisons of HR laws in all 50 states plus Washington D.C. In this unique chart-based reference guide on state employment regulations, you’ll find:
Note:This program is available for all 50 states. Please select the specific state when placing your order online.
 Discover how companies nationwide are conducting HR practices. This twice-monthly newsletter service gives you the inside look at what other HR departments are doing. Concise, easy-to-read newsletter makes staying on top of trends manageable.
 For over 20 years, human resource managers have relied on this practical state labor laws resource to understand and stay on top of ever-changing employment regulations in their states. No wonder we’ve heard so many nice names for What to Do About Personnel Problems – we’ve even been called the “HR Bible”!
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Binder / Newsletter Get the solutions to personnel problems in YOUR state with this outstanding state-specific resource. This product covers over 100 key personnel areas--indexed by HR topic and includes two monthly newsletters. Free updates 6 times per year.
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 The slogans, the oft repeated mantras of professional union organizers are recited and convincingly refuted in this video. Welder, warehouse worker, nurse, office worker, truck driver, assembly line worker - ten diverse people. They want what's fair, but don't know if they really want to join a union. Why is the union here? What's in it for them? Just some of the questions asked and answered in this new video. No threats, no false innuendoes that can come back to haunt management. Instead, a low-key factual presentation of facts that help ask and answer the question - Do I really want to join a union? Length: 22:00 min.
This two-part series makes an assessment of the current state of the American workplace. The first part focuses on how labor unions have lost much of their political and economic clout over the last four decades, while the second part looks at the emergence of a new generation of young Internet entrepreneurs. 2-part series, 29 minutes each. The Series Includes: America Today: Looking for the Union Label | America Today: Kid CEO.Com
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