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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.
 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.
 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.
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 Union Elections: What You Can Do Now to Fight Organizing Tactics – Legally - and Remain Union-Free 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 on April 15, 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:
Tuesday, April 15, 2008 10:30 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. (PST) 11:30 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. (MST) 12:30 to 2:00 p.m. (CST) 1:30 to 3:00 p.m. (EST) 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. How Do Audio Conferences Work? An audio conference is remarkably cost-effective and convenient. You participate from your office, using a regular telephone. You have no travel costs and no out-of-office time. Plus, for one low price you can get as many people in your office to participate as you can fit around a speakerphone. Because the conference is live, you can ask the speakers questions—either on the phone or via e-mail. With your registration, you also receive conference materials, with additional practical information from Business & Legal Reports, sent to you via e-mail shortly before the conference. Why You Can Sign Up to Attend This Event with Confidence If, for any reason, you are unsatisfied with this audio conference, simply let us know, and we will return your entire registration fee.
This video dramatically re-enacts a union card signing campaign, including union telephone solicitation, home visits, in-house organizing, peer pressure and intimidation. Sign on the Dotted Line shows workers that simply by signing the card or petition, they are hiring the union as their legal representative "in all matters pertaining to rates of pay, wages, hours of employment and other conditions of employment." Workers are reminded that with sufficient signed cards, a union can be recognized by the NLRB as the representative of every employee without any vote. ** This is also available in Railway Labor Act. **
New Release EFCA Card Sharks is our 2nd edition of EFCA Card Tricks. It provides an entertaining and engrossing description of risks employees take today when they sign union authorization cards. What is EFCA? The Employee Free Choice Act would take away employee’s rights to secret ballot elections. Elections that determine if they want to be represented by a union. With EFCA, if a majority of employees sign union authorization cards, EFCA requires employers to bargain with a union, with no notice of an ongoing union campaign. Another provision of EFCA would require arbitration of a first contract if the company and the union are unable to reach agreement within 120 days. In such cases, a labor agreement imposed by the arbitrator would bind the parties for two years. This requirement could expose employers to perhaps intolerable obstacles to conducting business successfully. EFCA Card Sharks provides an entertaining and engrossing description of risks employees take today when they sign union authorization cards. Then, how much greater their risk is under the EFCA. The message to employees is clear. Signing a union card has always been dangerous. Under EFCA their signatures on union cards could lead to an immediate disaster. Web-Based Training now available for this title! Makes Any Internet Ready Computer Your Part-time or Full-time “Classroom” For Self-Paced Training. Supervisors and/or employees will watch this video online then answer a quiz at the end. Determining his/her comprehension of the issues involved. Once the trainee is finished, his/her scores will be available in a report for the training supervisor. Supervisory skills and issues are revealed only to those who have been given a special code. Software keeps records. The program will provide a wide range of pertinent information; who is passing, who is failing, each trainee’s scores and the availability to print a certificate. Length: 10 min.
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