COLLECTIVE BARGAINING & STRIKES

COLLECTIVE BARGAINING & STRIKES

As you know, our Company has scheduled an election with the Union. Between now and the election, the U ion will continue with their false promises of higher wages and benefits. I know you are smart enough to know this promise of higher wages is a lie. Again, ask the Union to sign a written guarantee they can get these higher wages and benefits. I am positive they will not sign the guarantee.


However, our Company would like you to consider the following facts regarding what the Union can really do for you during negotiations or a strike:

  1. If the Union were to win the election by a majority vote, all that it entitles the Union to is the ability to negotiate with our Company. Our only obligation is to bargain in good faith with the Union.
  2. At the bargaining table, the only power the Union has is to ask our Company for the Union’s demands. The Union cannot force us to accept any proposal or make any concession which we cannot afford or which is not good for our business.
  3. If the Union tells you that what you now is guaranteed, they are not telling you the truth. As Federal Law has stated, you can lose wages as well as gain them in collective bargaining. Also, you can end up exactly where you are. The United States Government and the National Labor Board does not guarantee employees that bargaining must end at where you are currently in wages or other conditions of employment. However, the Employer must maintain status quo while negotiations are ongoing. However, in the end the deal could be better, the same, or worse.
  4. As the Union how they can force our Company more money or provide more benefits if we can’t afford them or are unable to pay due to our competition.
  5. Negotiations could take weeks, months, or years to complete. During this time, your wages and benefits generally are frozen.
  6. If you were to choose the Union as your representative, you generally would no longer have the right to individually bargain for your own wages, benefits, or working conditions with our Company. The Union would govern your future in regards to wages and benefits, as well as most grievances.
  7. Ask the Union, if our Company can possibly hire permanent strike replacement workers if an economic strike is called by the Union.
  8. Ask the Union if your pay and benefits stop and you will not be able to receive unemployment insurance during a possible strike.

Of course, strikes are not inventible. If the Union were to win, we would bargain in good faith. However, remember, when it comes to collective bargaining and strikes, generally the only thing that will remain the same are the high Union salaries that you will be paying for with your monthly dues and initiation fees to the Union. Please don't fall for the Union's pressure tactics and false promises.


Our Company does not think we need a Union here because we have been fair to our employees in the past and will continue to be fair to the employees in the future.


FROM THE MANAGEMENT OF Honey Sour

The law says bargaining is a potentially risky process. When bargaining is done and a contract is agreed to, you could get more, the same or less than you had before bargaining began.

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