In the last five years, the National Labor Relations Board has made traditional union-free strategies obsolete. The expected new decisions and rules will make staying union-free even more difficult. Here are the 10 things every employer must do if it wishes to remain union-free, even under the new rules:
- Structure your operation to avoid micro-units
- Know whom you want to be supervisors and make sure that they meet the Board's new tests
- Have legal no solicitation/no distribution/ no access rules
- Have legal code of conduct/legal electronic media/social media policies
- Train supervisors with more than lectures
- Have and publish why employees should be union-free, what you have done to make unions unnecessary, and the meaning and use of union authorization cards
- Have an effective communication system
- Have competitive wages and benefits
- Have a credible dispute resolution system
- Have a rapid response program
If you wait until union organizing is underway, it will likely be too late.
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