I grew up in a union family, as did many of my friends. During contract time I remember the topics being discussed were regarding safety issues in the workplace environment, seniority, benefits and wage disparities. Today, according to the Center for Economic and Policy Research, the majority of all new union members are 35 or…
Think labor unions are a thing of the past? Think again, the labor movement has been rebranded and reborn. Many in our new generation of workers romanticize the notion of collective bargaining, while the generation of newly ascending C-suite leaders has little to no recollection of labor movements past (for better or worse). It’s a…
Top 10 Reasons Employee Engagement Survey on a one to one basis work How confident are you that your employees are happy and are going to stay with your company for the long-term? One of the best ways to find out is by conducting an employee satisfaction survey on a regular basis. These surveys can…
UNION MEMBERS — 2019 : Source BLS.GOV 2019 In 2019, the percent of wage and salary workers who were members of a labor union–the union membership rate–was 10.3 percent, down by 0.2 percentage point from 2018, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. Highlights from the 2019 data: –The union membership rate of public-sector workers…
“While organizing in the Rocky Mountains for the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union, Richard Bensinger developed a technique called “The Blitz,” a fast paced, pre- petition organizing strategy that gives the union the jump on the company. It calls for “front loading the organizing campaign by using volunteer organizers on a large scale to…
Employee retention strategies can not only improve employee morale, they also ensure that your best workers will continue to work for you, not your competition. Great businesses understand the importance of keeping their employees for a long time. In doing so, they don’t have to regularly spend the time and money necessary to replace employees — which could…
Salting is the process where the union organizer applies for a job at a non union facility and injects themselves in to the workforce with the primary goal to persuade the other workers and organize them. To be clear, this SALT is getting paid by the company as a worker and still receiving a salary…
Employees should be regularly surveyed about their managers with specific questions. The questions fall into three general categories: nurturing growth in others, operating excellence, and emotional intelligence, all intended to discern the strength of a manager. Here are some questions in which employees rate their leaders: “I would recommend my manager to others”: If the employee…
In the National Labor Relations Act, “…once a collective-bargaining representative has been designated or selected by its employees, it is illegal for an employer to bargain with individual employees, with a group of employees, or with another employee representative.” Without union presence, you negotiate with your employer everyday (You are your own voice). The self…
Employee Recognition is part of employee engagement. In this piece we will review some of the things that can assist a leader to succeed at employee recognition. Employees want that recognition and we have found more often than not, that the recognition they seek is usually a “Thank You” or “Great Job.” Having a recognition…