Fisher & Phillips LLP United States: Having It Your Way: Employers’ Challenges To Remaining Union-Free In A Potentially Radically Changed Legal Environment
This is the second in a series of articles designed to alert
employers to the challenges employers will face who wish to remain
union-free in a potentially radically changed legal
environment.
Burger King is not necessarily the only place you can get it
"your way." We believe that it is possible to have a more
productive and committed work force and no union at the same time.
It definitely is not a case of "either . . . or." And you
can do it without fighting and conflict. Indeed fighting and
conflict are generally counter-productive to the effort to remain
union free and often cause employers to lose their focus on the
only objective that really counts – employees.
Fighting...
Fighting and conflict have very little positive impact on an
employer's goal of remaining union free....
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