HRM200 Chapter 16: HR_Chapter 16.doc

• School: University of Waterloo
• Department: Human Resources Management
• Course: HRM200
• Professor: Katrina Di Gravio

Document Summary

Specific employees go into a company and create a union (even if one is not necessary) They go to labour board and get certified they have to show that there are enough employees that are dissatisfied thus if they"re in majority than they don"t need a vote. Management"s labour relations strategy: union acceptance strategy, view the union as the legitimate representative of the firms employees, union avoidance strategy (more popular among companies, union substitution. Run the company (responsive to employees needs) so that a union is unnecessary: union suppression. Walmart says that if the employees form a union they will close the store. Desire to avoid unions at all cost. Canada"s labour laws: jurisdiction: provincial/territorial (13 jurisdictions) 90% of labour-management relations: more large companies are non-unionized (such as financial companies etc, federal (1 jurisdiction) Craft: traditionally, a labour organization representing workers practicing the same craft or trade plumbing or carpentry.