Union Proof
Creating Your Successful Union Free Strategy
Cost: Non-Members: $19.99 Members: FREE!
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Peter Bergeron, a 33-year veteran of labor relations and human resources, shares his experiences, offers advice and gives you the "best practices" that truly make a difference in remaining union-free. Far from a legal text, Peter provides the practical tools and advice that can help you make union representation irrelevant within your organization.
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Remaining Union-Free: A Supervisor's Guide
Revised and Updated
Cost: Non-Members: $45.00; Members: $35.00
A useful handbook for supervisors and managers, this concise, easy-to-read handbook should be on every supervisor's reading list. It is also a handy tool for training supervisors and managers.
Topics include:
Why Be Union-Free?
Why Unions Organize
Union Disadvantages
Why Employees May Want to Join Unions
Applying Good Management Principles to
 Remaining Union-Free
The Supervisor's Role and Responsibility
Early Warning Signs That May Indicate Union Activity
Union Claims of Representation
Solicitation and Distribution Rules
Innovative Union-Organizing Techniques
Commonly Asked Questions by Employees
Dos and Don'ts for Supervisors
Examples of Typical Unfair Labor Practices
History of the U.S. Labor Movement and Significant
Legislation
Jointly published by CUE and NAM (National Association of Manufacturers), these two groups have consistently promoted the value of positive employee relations in the workplace.
Historical Note: For those new to CUE, this publication was available prior to 1996 through National Association of Manufacturers. It was recently updated and revised and is now available.
Supervisors' Guide On Union Activities
A Practical Aid in Keeping Your Workplace Union-Free
Cost: Non-Members: $18.00; Members: $12.00
This portfolio, designed specially for managers and supervisors, this portfolio is a handy reference guide and aid for in-house training programs, including information about their rights and responsibilities during union organizing campaigns.
It explains positive employee relations principles, early warning signs of union organizing, acceptable and unacceptable conduct during organizing campaigns and typical union tactics and how to handle them. It even contains a union policy statement.
The Supervisors Guide includes these topics:
A discussion of the union threat
A company policy on unions
Positive employee relations principles
Permissible supervisory conduct during a union drive
Prohibited supervisory conduct during a union drive
Typical union tactics and how to handle them
Employment and Labor Law Audit (ELLA® 2005)
A New Approach To Positive Employee Relations and Liability Prevention
Cost: Non-Members: $185.00; Members: $145.00
In today's climate of increasing employment litigation and soaring damage awards against employers, you can't be too careful about personnel policies and procedures.
Employers today must not only be diligent in their defensive measures, but also be prepared to act affirmatively to avoid legal risks and adverse workplace relations.
ELLA provides a blueprint to help you identify your employee relations trouble spots and outline legal and management strategies to minimize your potential liability.
Like a financial audit, which assesses your economic integrity and financial well-being, ELLA works to:
(a)Insure compliance with the myriad of workplace laws and
regulations,
(b)Target and defuse potential labor relations problems,
(c)Ensure your policies and procedures are current, sound
and effective.
ELLA is designed to help you quickly examine the most important aspects of your organization's personnel functions, identify where you need improvement and discover hidden areas of vulnerability.
ELLA provides you with expert analysis and assistance in combating legal and non-legal challenges in your workplace.
ELLA identifies strategies and tasks for compliance with current labor relations and employment laws.
Subject Areas covered by ELLA:
Sexual Harassment
Americans With Disabilities Act
Family and Medical Leave Act
Unemployment Insurance
Recruitment, Selection and Hiring
Application Forms
Advice on Reference Checking
Responding to Reference Inquiries
Employee Handbooks
Positive Employee Relations
Discrimination in the Workplace
Drug-Free Workplace
AIDS in the Workplace
Job Performance Reviews
Terminations/involuntary Layoffs
Plant Closing
Leaves of Absence
Immigration Compliance
Wage and Hour Requirements Under FLSA
ELLA on the WEB™ - Annual subscription: CUE members: $200.00; non-members: $250.00
Free trial use of ELLA on the WEB™, go to: www.ellaontheweb.com, then click on setup free trial.
Ending the Employment Relationship, Without Ending Up In Court
by Francis T. (Tom) Coleman, Esq., Williams, Mullen, Clark & Dobson, Washington, D.C.
Cost: Non-Members: $19.95; Members: $17.95
This book covers all the major issues that managers confront in the termination decision. The trend in wrongful terminations suits continues to rise and can lead to expensive and distracting litigation. This practical guide also is designed to assist employers in the fair treatment of employees facing possible termination. (Cost: CUE members: $17.95; non-members: $19.95)
Union-Free 101 - Toolbox for Remaining Union Free in the 21st Century
by Don Hysell, Corporate Director, Government Relations, BASF Corporation, Washington, DC and Sandy Maynard, Director of Human Resources, Chiron IntraOptics, Huntington, WV
Cost: Non-Members: $30.00; Members: $20.00
A "nuts and bolts" manual for daily use by managers and supervisors, Union-Free 101 discusses how supervisors affect their employees, how to prevent unions with positive employee relations, why employees want unions, and union awareness. It contains a union organizing campaign case history and several workplace assessment tools.
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