Anti-Union TacticsPart 3

Bob Kravesformer IAM educator

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What the Bosses Won’t Tell You

With a union, employers cannot reduce your wages, health benefits, vacation, sick leave, life insurance, holidays, pensions, or other working conditions without your agreement.

That union workers do not bargain themselves out of jobs.

What the Bosses Won’t Tell You

Companies do not go out of business because they pay their workers a decent wage and provide benefits; companies go out of business because of poor market conditions or poor management.

What the Bosses Won’t Tell You

What the Bosses Won’t Tell You

That the union is not an outside, third party, but is comprised of you and your fellow workers.

What the Bosses Won’t Tell You

That without a union you work under "at-will" conditions, with your employer in complete control.

What the Bosses Won’t Tell You

Unions protect their members from unfair disciplinary actions and firings. Under a union contract supervisors or managers no longer have the final say. They are no longer judge and jury all in one.

What the Bosses Won’t Tell You

That a union grievance procedure has a neutral arbitrator, not management, as the final step.

What the Bosses Won’t Tell You

That a workplace without a union is undemocratic.

That most workers who are aware of the facts believe unions are necessary and valuable.

What the Bosses Won’t Tell You