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A 4 page paper. Many companies have successful blocked unions but if Congress passes certain bills, it will become more difficult for companies to legally block organization. This paper discusses tactics some companies are using and recommendations for legally blocking unions. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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in keeping unions out of their companies. A large corporation that come immediately to mind is Wal-Mart, the largest retailer in the world. Other successful but large corporations in which
unions failed are the old IBM and FedEx. FedEx is now on the precipice because of the new presidents comments and regulations associated with economic bailout money. Of the hundreds
of thousands of FedEx employees, only the pilots are unionized (Bomkamp, 2009). This is because FedEx has been able to block the union because its workers fall under the rules
of the National Railway Labor Act (Bomkamp, 2009). FedEx has fought hard to legally block unionization specifically because of this Act, which states that employees may become unionized only
if all employees of the corporation vote at the same time to do so (Bomkamp, 2009). The bailout from which UPS, FedExs arch rival, may change that. The new regulations
would put FedExs employees under the National Labor Relations Act, which allows departments or locations to unionize (Bomkamp, 2009). In other words, employees could organize and accept the union one
terminal location at a time (Bomkamp, 2009). Thus, the way FedEx legally blocked unionization was through the classification of their employees. Every company does not have that option and in
fact, under the new presidents ideas, unionizing would become easier and easier. Consider, for example, the speeches during the campaign when he proposed that "union certification could be based on
a card check: "If 50 percent of employees plus one sign cards saying they want a union, thats it. Done deal. Union certified" (Maslanka, 2008). Its called the Employee Free
Choice Act (Maslanka, 2008). Many pundits do not seem to understand that unions can cause employees harm when they work for an organization who would normally provide as many benefits
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