What Managers Need To Know as The Union Knocks On The Door

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Instructor
Gerry McLaughlin
July 21, 2026 (Tuesday)
10:00 AM PDT | 01:00 PM EDT
Duration: 90 Minutes
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Overview:

Managers and Supervisors are taken to task every day in managing their Non represented employees. It is important for them to learn the Initial warning signs of Union Organizing long before a Union gets the appropriate number of signed Authorization Cards and the NLRB Conducts a secret Election. Learn here the best Election is the one that is never held.

This course will delve into the 20 + Initial Warning Signs of Union Organizing, What you Can Do and What you Cannot Do, Guidelines of Good Management, Dangers of Signing The Authorization Card, The NLRB Election, Unfair Labor Practices committed by Managers  The information presented in this workshop will save costs, and time for your organization as Managers will be more informed and be prepared.

Why you should Attend:

  • Initial Warning signs of Union Organizing
  • What You Can Do and What You Cannot Do
  • The dangers of your employees signing an Authorization Card
  • Unfair Labor Practices your managers May Commit
  • The NLRB Election and its intricacies
  • Tips, Tactics and Techniques of Union Organizing
  • Guidelines Of Good Management

Areas Covered in the Session:

  • You will understand the Initial Warning Signs of Union Organizing and be prepared to respond appropriately to employee concerns and questions
  • You will understand the "whys and where for" of the Union Organizer, their logic as to why they do and believe in what they do
  • You will be able to communicate effectively to your employees solid reasoning as to How the Union Organizer is the only one who gains if this workforce is unionized. Your employees will understand that "nothing" happens at a bargaining table unless Management Agrees to it
  • You will understand "What you can do "for example they are your employees you can freely discuss FACTS, OPINIONS and EXAMPLES regarding Unions with your employees!
  • You will understand What you Cannot do. so your Management team will not initiate errors and  have the NLRB rule that you must bargain with this Union even though there has not been an election!
  • You will be exposed to the Dangers of Signing an Authorization Card
  • You will gather an understanding of Unfair Labor Practices that potentially your Managers may commit
  • You will be able to know the intricacies of an NLRB Election You will Understand Guidelines of Good Management outlining the Tips, tactics and techniques so that a Union Organizing Campaign is NOT an Annual Event ! Yes an NLRB election CAN be held every 12 months!
  • The Webinar closes with a satirical presentation and discussion of "How to Ensure A Union in Your Workplace" ("What you do not ever want to do in the Workplace")

Who Will Benefit:

  • Managers Directors
  • Vice Presidents
  • HR or Operations this workshop is a "must attend" for anyone with a current or future bargaining unit responsibility

Speaker Profile

Rich McLaughlin Rich has been an observer and practitioner of innovation and employee engagement processes for over 20 years. He has over 13,000 hours designing and facilitating leadership and interpersonal skills workshops, and innovation explorations with teams to help them jump start their change and innovation efforts.

He has helped teams as small as 8 and departments as large as 100 learn how to blend external developments (to understand where customer needs are moving) with internal employee engagement processes (to show how to stimulate internal experiments and capitalize on those opportunities). Rich also enjoys helping leaders grow by focusing more on people skills and less on technical ones. He brings an experiential approach in his work with client teams. His client’s value the engaging way he works with their people whether facilitating a leadership workshop, working with a specific team, or challenging employees to be more accountable for the whole.

Rich spent time learning about instructional design and change management at Accenture, helped Square D Company develop and implement their TQM programs and processes and developed the leadership curriculum and internal consulting practice at Baxter Healthcare during his time as an internal OD practitioner. The last 8 years of his practice he has been following the intersection of Innovation and Design Thinking.

Rich received his M.A. in Training and Development for Business from Ohio State University, and has been consulting faculty for the University of Notre Dame’s College of Business since 2000. He is author of, Rules of Engagement: A Story About How Leaders Can More Effectively Engage Employees. And he co-authored Tapping Team Intelligence: Exercises that connect team members, engage their creativity and foster collaboration.