Organizing Pros And Cons

“Organizing is an intense process involving unions, employers, and the NLRB. The union’s goals is to organize a majority of employee; the employer seeks to avoid unionization; and the NLRB’s role is to provide employees with the opportunities to make a free choice about whether to be represented or to remain unorganized” (Fossum, 2015, p. 193). Both the union and the employers have strategies they put in place to give the employees options. The both put together a campaign pros and cons of each. Employers commit a great deal of ULPs when they campaign against the union, trying to convince the employees not to vote to unionize. This paper will show a great deal of the strategies that are used and the ways the strategies can work for or against

The goals to organize are “(1) obtaining signed authorization cards from a majority in the unit the unions seek to represent; (2) obtaining voluntary recognition based on a card count or a board-directed election; and (3) achieving the negotiation, ratification, and implementation of a first contract” (Fossum, 2015, p. 177). The union needs 30% of the employees to sign the authorization cards for the union to represent them and for the hearing to be held. In order for the Union representative to get the authorization cards to the employees since many employer frowns upon solicitation on private property. The union representative can contact employees via mail and sometimes via email if they can get someone to provide direct contact inside the workplace. In order for the strategies to make a substantial improvement, union representatives need to prepare a more aggressive approach that will signify a more comprehensive, creative, and strategic tactic. “They will need to recruit and train enough organizer to effectively mount these more comprehensive campaigns” (Bronfenbrenner & Hickey, 2003, p. 18). Union’s should examine and do an investigation before they launch a campaign on the employer. The union would need to determine which objectives to concentrate on