Does your management team, especially first line supervisors, and your employees understand the company's position on remaining union free? Would your management team know what to do if authorization cards were being passed by your employees, and do they know what they can and cannot do as representatives of management? If not, the element of prevention as well as opportunity to prevail over actual organizing activity is significantly diminished.

Have you ever really thought about it; FLEXIBILITY, PRODUCTIVITY, CHANGE, COOPERATION; what do these words mean to you and do you think they might be important in the management of your business? If the answer is yes and you want to preserve your freedom to directly interface with your employees without shop stewards, business agents, grievance/arbitration procedures, and numerous contractual limitations, don't take it for granted.  Question is, have you just been lucky or do you have a well thought out strategy in place to preserve status quo?

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