If you’re in an HR leadership position, you are not required to be neutral when it comes to union activity. To the contrary, your employer generally has the right to require that you engage in lawful efforts to help the employer resist unionization. This reality is not always understood by HR professionals.
Creating a rapid response team to address union activity can go a long way toward encouraging employees to consider all the facts before deciding whether to sign a union card. But how does a company know when it’s time for a rapid response team to meet, when the team should be assembled, who should be part of the team and what its message should be?
HR’s Role in Forming a Rapid Response to Union Activity
SHRM | Mar 2022
Preparing for the Possibility of Union Organizing
SHRM Toolkit
Responding to Union Organizing
SHRM Sample Presentation
Take 7 Steps to Minimize Chances of Unionization
Union Communication Guidance: TIPS and FOE
DOL Warns About Underreporting of 'Persuader Activity'
See Labor Relations for additional articles.
SHRM Articles
Complying with U.S. Labor Relations Laws in Non-Union Settings
SHRM Toolkit
NLRB Eyes Ban on "Captive Audience" Meetings
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Law Firm Resources
Podcast: Employer Guidance - Reducing the Risk of a Successful Union Campaign
Husch Blackwell | Sep 2021
Union Organizing in the Manufacturing Industry
Jackson Lewis | Nov 2021
Staying Union Free in the Healthcare Industry – 5 Key Tactics
Buchanan | Jan 2021
Additional Law Firm Resources
Employment Law Information Network: Union Organizing
JD Supra: Union Organizers
Mondaq: Employee Rights and Labor Relations
Know the Signs of Union Activity
Signs of Union Activity
Reliant Labor Consultants
10 Signs of Union Organizing Activity
Projections Inc.
Union Activity On The Rise
Employers Take Note! Labor’s Resurgence Could be Real this Time
Franczek | Apr 2022
Amazon Faces Tough Choices After Victory for Workers
SHRM | Apr 2022
Amazon and Starbucks union votes are small wins — but important ones — for US labor
CNN | Apr 2022
How a bunch of Starbucks baristas built a labor movement
Vox | Apr 2022
Employers Should Take Note of Recent Union Organizing Activities
Jones Walker | Apr 2022
Union Activity is Rising at an Aggressive Rate
Carothers | Apr 2022
How a bunch of Starbucks baristas built a labor movement
Vox | Apr 2022
Related Developments
White House Issues Labor Report
White House Task Force on Worker Organizing and Empowerment Releases its Report
Littler | Feb 2022
NLRB's General Counsel Announces Support for White House Labor Report
Faegre | Feb 2022
Read the White House Task Force's full report.
President Biden Issues Executive Order on Project Labor Agreements
Biden Executive Order Requires Project Labor Agreements on "Large-Scale Construction Projects"
Husch Blackwell | Feb 2022
Project Labor Agreements are Now Required for Large Federal Construction Projects
Larkin Hoffman | Feb 2022
Read the Presidential Executive Order 14063.
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