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Video 1: The following is a true story: there is a certain manufacturing company that wishes to keep all it's plants from becoming unionized. This is not uncommon, and many HR professionals will list "union avoidance" as a strength on their resumes. In one particular plant, the HR director chose to hire several former employees from a facility nearby (a different company's plant) that had been shut down. The now closed plant was a unionized, or organized, one. The HR director believed he could could manage to keep the employees from organizing. However, he failed and the plant did organize. That HR director lost his job as a result.

Talk about the implications of this. You are the HR director and union avoidance is a must. What are some steps you could take to keep the employees from organizing? What policies can you implement, and what can you do to show them that it is more beneficial to them to not bring in the union?

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The union avoidance is must because it helps the company to make employees un-unionized. Unionization of employees will lower the profit and productivity in plant. so the previous HR by hiring employees from shut down plant was wrong approach but as for me, i would try to remove such activity in my plant by keeping away the employees from organizing.

the steps which i would take or policies i would implement to do that are-

Run a safe, secure, and fair workplace. Survey your employees to learn how they feel about these issues, and respond to employee concerns.

Communicate. Communicate. Communicate. Have an interactive communication system in place. Give your employees a voice in decisions that affect them.

Explain unpopular decisions. Discuss with employees decisions that are unpopular. Explain why they are important to the company.

Be responsible. Take responsibility for your decisions—the good and the bad.

Have an effective grievance procedure in place. Make sure employees know how to file a complaint and raise issues of concern. If employees feel that their concerns are heard, they are less likely to turn to a third party, i.e., a union, to be their voice with management.

I would describe employees that our company involve in fair employment practices and follow employment laws in company. also company believes in fair compensation and good working environment and safety of employees. bring Union in company would affect both parties because workers would lose their job or money in doing union activities and company would suffer loss. so it is good for both parties to work in free and un-unionized environment.