Efforts to create a union don’t stop after you win recognition. The next step—winning a fair contract— is just as important. Once your union is officially certified, your employer will be legally required to negotiate in good faith with your union to obtain a written, legally binding contract covering all aspects of your employment. You and your co-workers will elect a negotiating team and decide what changes and improvements you want to propose to your employer. Acceptance of the final agreement will be voted on by you. Unions also offer employees a sense of belonging – a way to identify with a group that’s larger, more powerful than they are individually. “Us/them” is a powerful dichotomy. Unions can help you make your workplace an even better place to work. Not through collective bargaining and contractual strong-arming, but by showing you where you can improve your culture and give your people what they need, want and deserve in advance of organizing activities. Take a look at what the UNION can do for us.
Union
Nonunion
A Voice
On the Job
Union
Only union members enjoy the legal right and power to have a say on the job.
nonunion
Management has exclusive control and decision making power.
Wages
Union
Pay rates are negotiated to ensure fairness for everyone and protected in the union contract. Seniority is recognized.
Nonunion
Management alone decides what's fair pay and can base any raises on business needs, favoritism or anything else.
Benefits
Union
Protected by the contract. Changes can only be made with employee approval.
Nonunion
Can be taken away or changed at any time.
Promotions &
Hiring Practices
Union
Awarded fairly according to the process agreed to in the union contract.
Nonunion
It's up to management.
Unfair Treatment
& Job Protection
Union
Employees have a protected way to challenge any unfair or questionable treatment with support and representation from their union. Just cause standards are applied with binding arbitration if the parties can't agree.
Nonunion
You're on your own. Any grievance process gives management the last word.
Working
Conditions
Union
Schedules, vacations, workload, subcontracting, work standards, layoff procedures, hours of work are all agreed to between workers and the employer and protected in the contract.
Nonunion
Management decides what's best for employees.
Protections & Guarantees
Only union workers enjoy a legally-binding written agreement with their employer that defines, protects, and guarantees all terms of employment.
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That is damn good strait and true info
ReplyDeleteIts a shame that there is a federal law that people have a right to unionize and organize, yet Some have to go to court to prove it. The greedy Corp. and lieing administration looked so stupid up in the court. Its hard to believe that corp pulls staff off the floor to have meetings then acusses the union for resident care not being delivered. These people who want to vote "No". Wouldnt even have the right to vote no if it werent for the strong courageous few that stood against this multimillion giant.
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