1. As an HR Business Partner for all of these situations:
2. Plant Manager contacts you to inform you that an applicant has applied for a labor job on the plant.During the interview, he made us aware that he intends to bring a union to represent the workers.How would you recommend I proceed?
3. One of your retail locations contacts you informing you that a union is picketing their location.They are harassing customers and workers verbally.They haven't physically come in to contact with anyone, but they do walk in front of customers trying to intimidate them.What do I do?
4. A manager contacts you informing you that a newly hired associate has approached the manager of the facility about bringing a union to the workplace.What should I do?
5. You have been served by the NLRB with a notice for election in 35 days at a location.In this area, you are the main point of contact for the facility and will serve as the management lead for these 35 days up to the election.You have been made aware by the Executive Leadership that losing this election will have an impact on your employment with the organization.What is your strategy for handling this campaign?
6. You have accepted a job with a new organization that has a Union already in place.Contract negotiation is coming up in 6 months and you have been assigned the lead for part of the contract negotiation.Your areas of concentration are Employee Terminations, Employee Promotions, and Employee Grievance Procedures for Discipline.What strategy do you use to prepare for the contract negotiations?
7. During a Union Campaign, you are receiving 10-30 Unfair Labor Practice Charges per day from the NLRB with the Union has filed.They range from individual claims of discrimination, threats, interrogation, spying, and promising.You believe the ULP's to be a distraction and an attempt by the union to make the employer appear to be corrupt in the eyes of the NLRB.What is your strategy to manage a campaign and nearly 700 ULP's?
8. As an HR Business Partner, you receive a phone call from your plant manager.The Manager is highly upset as she shares that the Union had protested at her home at 7 AM in the morning.The union was highly aggressive and broke car windows in the neighborhood.As the HR Business Partner, how do you handle this situation?