Union Maintenance, Managing Your Union
If your employees are currently represented by a labor organization,
East Coast Labor Relations has union maintenance programs to help
you minimize your cost, and maximize your flexibility in the management
of your business.
We offer union maintenance services and training that address the
following issues:
- Grievance and arbitration handling for management and supervisors
- Effective “management” of your Business Agent
- Effective and strategic partnership with shop stewards
- Maintenance and enforcement of work rules
Collective Bargaining Contract Negotiations
East Coast Labor Relations has the skill and experience to help
your organization with perhaps the most important aspect of its relationship
with the union, the negotiation of the Collective Bargaining Agreement.
This document will set the tone of your business, as well as the
relationship with your union, as well as non-union workforce.
East Coast Labor Relations can provide assistance your Company in
the form of strategic advice concerning employer proposals, as well
as providing spokesmen to head the negotiations at the Bargaining
Table. Armed with years of negotiating experience from both sides
of the bargaining table in hundreds of contract negotiations, we
know the dynamics and thought process involved on both sides, because
we've been there.
Strike Planning
Obviously, no one wants a strike. However, a critical part of any
negotiations is for both Management and, more importantly, the union
leadership and membership to be fully aware that if a work stoppage
occurs, Management is prepared. When your organization is not fully
prepared for the worst, the union will surely exploit this lack of
preparation; perhaps feeling emboldened to maintain their proposals
and strategy.
Proper strike preparation offers the following benefits at the bargaining
table, long in advance of an actual strike vote:
- Unions recognition of the Company intentions and seriousness
of their proposals
- Employees recognition of the seriousness of their actions
- Employees knowledge that the employer won't simply “roll over”
- The Company confidence in their overall strategy of their bargaining
position
When you go into collective bargaining with the belief that
a strike will never happen, you just increased the odds that it
will.
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