Union Involvement Levels
Union & Management have equal say on certain matters such delivery of services, production, quality, and cost control
What is co-determination?
This company substituted unionization with such strong employees-first policies that it actually became a top 100 employer in Canada
What is Dofasco?
This employer strategy involves legally and illegally trying to remain union-free.
What is union opposition?
Union & middle management jointly recommend solutions to senior managers that may or may not be accepted
What is a joint committee?
This company would transfer any pro-union employees out of its branches.
What is CIBC?
This strategy aims to eliminate existing unions, using both legal and illegal methods.
What is union removal?
Union’s opinion is considered before decisions made
What is consultation?
This company practied union substitution by having worker benefits such as a skills training centre, a daycare centre, and a corporate recreation centre with a park and a lake.
What is Magna?
This strategy involves the employer putting protocols in place that make the workplace very similar to a unionized workplace, without actually having a union, to avoid the rules and regulations of a union
What is union substitution?
Explaining decisions to the union
What is information sharing?
This company made workers believed that, if they certified a union in their store, they would shut down that store.
What is Walmart?
This strategy involves the employers letting unions be formed.
What is union acceptance?
Zero involvement other than legally mandated bargaining
What is no involvement?
This company practiced union substitution by paying wages below union rates, but having profit sharing and production incentives that could bring an employee's pay well above union rates.
What is Brown's Bay?
This strategy involves employers doing as much as they can to prevent unionization
What is union resistance?