Question

Search online for union avoidance management consultants (try searching for “union avoidance” or “union free”).

Evaluate how consultants can be good or bad for labor relations.

Analyze the types of tactics are described on their sites.

Discuss how these tactics compare to those described by longtime consultant Martin Jay Levitt in his 1993 book Confessions of a Union Buster.

Answer 1

Answers:

1. An employee relations consultant is a valuable source for any kind of company whether it is a manufacturing company or a small business with motivational aspects. These consultants act neutrally between the employees &the managers & help in achieving better communication, working conditions & also understanding. The company benefits as whole because of a consultant & the employees also feel heard & validated.
2. Tactics used:

• By presenting a clear picture of the company’s vision & mission statements by making simple power point presentations & making the employees to understand.
• Acting as an intermediary & organizing communication meetings between the employees &the managers.
• Keeping an online repository of cases from the employees & helping the management to resolve the same.
• Organizing or forming a representative on behalf of the employee & making them to meet with the managers at intervals.

3. Tactics used by longtime consultant Martin Jay Levitt :

posting notices, organizing on or off employer property, solicitations, card signing, union dues, picketing, work stoppages, striking and strikebreaking, lockouts, termination of employment, permanent replacements, automatic recognition, derecognition, ballot elections, and employer-controlled trade unions

Hence the above tactics seem to be different from those mentioned by longtime consultant Martin Jay Levitt