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This 4-page paper examines the legal and ethical issues of unionization as it pertains to this particular case study, the First Central Bank of River City. The paper discusses the legal and ethical aspects and determines how the bank's management could have handled things better.
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place to work, and although the bank offered some good benefits, including an outstanding pension plan, union personnel were able to infiltrate the bank at one point and distribute membership
cards to tellers. The cards were dismissed by management as an act by a single disgruntled employee - that is, until the letter surfaced. These letters had been addressed by
the IMU to the employees homes (it seemed as though one of the bank employees has provided the letter-writer with a list of employee names and addresses). At a management
meeting later, it was determined that the union would have to get 30 percent of employees to sign up before the National Labor Relations Board would have an election -
but the IMU wouldnt ask for an election until at least 60 percent of employees were signed up. A second letter came a month later, announcing a meeting at a
local hotel - between 100 and 125 of the banks 350 employees attended, with discussions centering around the pension and profit sharing plans and the lack of an employer-paid hospital
plan. Upon hearing this, First Centrals management became concerned that the bank was facing a unionization threat. In response, the management launched
an "information and education" campaign not to join the union. Furthermore, the banks attorney and one member of management came up with a list of questions and answers that could
be read to employees in small groups. The attorney cautioned, however, not to be specific or to threaten in the face of unionization, as such threats could be grounds for
the NLRB to find the bank guilty of unfair labor practices. Upon meeting with employees, management found that many of the employees really wanted the union, with much of the
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