Human Resources: Be Prepared For Dramatic Changes to Union Laws

The U.S.’s laws union organizing are about to change radically, making it easier to unions to organize your employees and to achieve a first contract. Most of the provisions in these new laws, will seem “foreign” to U.S. employers, are similar to the labor relations laws in Canada. Prepare and protect your organization by learning from top labor relations experts from Canada and the U.S.

The U.S. faces the most far reaching change in its labour laws in decades. If enacted, the Employee Free Choice Act will make it significantly easier to employees to unionize. EFCA will also provide for arbitration rather than negotiation of first collective bargaining agreements and will introduce more extreme penalties for employers found to have violated the law. These features are new in the United States but have been part of the industrial relations system in Canada for many years.

American employers have a unique opportunity to learn from the experience of their counterparts north of the border. This course will discuss how card check certification would change the employer's role in an organizing campaign and how arbitration would affect the employer's ability to control the content of first collective agreements. Participants will learn the strategies that employers in Canada have developed to deal with the provisions found in EFCA. Canadians also have experience with the expedited or quick certification vote that some have suggested may emerge as an EFCA compromise. Again, American employers can benefit from learning how employers in Canada get out their message to employees in a "hurry up" voting procedure.

U.S. labor law may changes in fundamental ways in the near future. This course will help employers understand what to expect and what they will need to do to respond effectively if EFCA becomes a reality."

This webcast has been approved for 1.0 General credits through HRCI

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