HR Hero Audio Conference on CD and Streaming Audio
Is the Union Coming? Early Warning Signs
Presented by Tony Swafford
March 15, 2007

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Is the union coming to your workforce? How can you find out?

Industry experts say union campaigns have an 80 percent success rate when organized from within a company. The success of a campaign depends on how well you and your supervisors communicate with employees. By training your supervisors to develop positive relationships with their teams, they can find out if workers are interested in bringing in a union.

Register today for Is the Union Coming? Early Warning Signs and learn how to train your supervisors to spot the clues of a campaign in progress, such as employees taking frequent breaks, huddles, and groupings of employees who normally don't socialize.

You'll also learn:

• How to find out who is involved with a union organizing campaign:
  • Don't ask! It's illegal.
  • Train your supervisors to use their eyes and ears.
  • Early warning signals: talker/quiet employee, huddles, odd groupings, a sudden wanderer, unusual lunch groups, an employee suddenly taking frequent breaks, etc.
• Get to know your employees:
  • Learn their interests, strong points, weak points, and other information to find out if they are interested in unionizing.
• Identify informal leaders to educate employees about the company. Traits of an informal leader:
  • Tenured employee
  • Does a good job
  • Relatively quiet — a listener rather than a talker
  • Respected by the employees
  • Remember — if one informal leader votes against the union, you will also gain several additional "no" votes.
• The 25-50-25 Theory on union organizing. On any given day in a well managed facility, employees will vote:
  • 25 percent for union
  • 25 percent against union
  • 50 percent have no clue
  • And organizing drives often come from within an organization. Inside an organization equals an 80 percent likelihood of success, outside equals a 40 percent success rate.

The use of this seal is not an endorsement by HRCI of the quality of the program. It means that this program has met HRCIs criteria to be pre-approved for recertification credit.

CREDIT INFORMATION: This program has been approved for 1.5 recertification credit hours through the HR Certification Institute. For more information about certification or recertification, please visit the HR Certification Institute website at www.hrci.org.

Because Is the Union Coming? Early Warning Signs is an audio seminar on CD you enjoy:

• Fast, convenient learning without any out-of-office time lost.
• No travel-related expenses or complications.
• The perfect way to train as many employees as you like.

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How does an Audio Conference on CD and streaming audio work?

An HR Hero Audio Conference on CD is a previously-recorded seminar that you listen to on your computer, auto, or home CD player. With each event focusing on one area of employment law, you can quickly catch up on the latest developments in employment law and HR issues, as your schedule permits. Plus, you get access to the seminar material downloads.

Quick: Depending on the topic, each HR Hero Audio Conference recording normally ranges from an hour to 90 minutes.

Convenient: Listen at your own convenience, print the conference materials, and share the CD with others in your department. You can listen to the audio stream immediately or as often as you like for 30 days.

Expert: The HR Hero Audio Conference presenters are nationally known employment attorneys or HR experts. They quickly and concisely explain what you really need to know about the topic.

Is the Union Coming? Early Warning Signs is $227.

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