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"The fight is never about grapes or lettuce. It is always about people." Cesar Chavez |
:: Monday, November 24, 2003 ::
A NEW ORGANIZING STRATEGY By Harry Kelber
This is the third of eight articles on union organizing.
The standard organizing method that unions use has built-in disadvantages. It calls for playing by the rules that are blatantly stacked in the employer’s favor.
The workplace that the union is trying to organize is the employer’s fortress, a terrain where he wields total control. He exercises his “free speech” rights to denounce the union, hinting that he’d sooner shut down and relocate than recognize an “outside party.” His supervisors are on the lookout for any signs of pro-union activity and hold frequent one-on-one meetings with his workers, pressuring them to have nothing to do with the union.
At “captive audience” meetings, called whenever he wants to, the employer subjects his entire work force to a barrage of antiunion speeches and videos. And if these efforts fail, he relies on his ultimate weapon: firing pro-union workers, just so everyone else on the job gets the message.------------------------------------------- posted 4:56 PM :: reference link ::
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