Labor Strategy Partners
High levels of leader-employee trust drive quality, culture, recruitment, retention, brand, and financial performance. LSP collaborates with executive and leadership teams to build deliberate labor strategies for lasting cultural improvement — and for maintaining a union-free environment.
The Business Case for Prevention
You have confidence in your organization's mission, direction, and planning — but successful execution is facing workplace culture and employee relations roadblocks. Difficulty in recruitment and retention, lack of employee engagement, and threats of unionization are standing in the way of more rapidly achieving organizational goals.
It is more economical to invest in proactive organizational health improvement steps — preventive labor strategies. Campaign costs are typically 7× to 20× the cost of a prevention program. And these proactive prevention strategies are less disruptive to your organization's pursuit of business goals while improving culture, engagement, recruitment, and retention.
Your organization's situation is unique. Let LSP tailor a preventive strategy to your specific needs.
Proactive Prevention
Identifying and addressing vulnerability to union organizing is by far more effective and economical than prevailing in an NLRB election. Below are foundational principles for preserving a union-free culture. Critical to success is execution around your initiatives supporting these principles — and equally important is employee awareness and buy-in.
Readiness
Proactive culture-building is the foundation — but unions are opportunistic. A setback or a difficult stretch can lead to authorization card signing and an NLRB petition. With a union win rate in healthcare of 89% over the last three years, campaign readiness is not optional. Below are the fundamentals.
Workplace Communication
"A wealth of information creates a poverty of attention."
Information — and misinformation — about your workplace, unions, healthcare outcomes, and leadership abounds.
What bubbles to top of mind on or near election day determines the outcome. Continuous trust-building
communication, well in advance of any organizing activity, is the key to making manager interactions more
credible than a social media post or a union organizer's phone call or text message.
Roadmaps · Execution · Accountability
What is outlined in the prior sections is not rocket science — in many cases it is stating the obvious. The operative question is: "Are we executing and measuring our progress against the obvious, so the union doesn't exploit and capitalize on our failure to execute?" How you stitch together these principles, fundamentals, and imperatives — tailored for your organization's current state — makes the difference. You don't have to be perfect, but you need to make progress and communicate that progress.
LSP can lead, support, or simply stress-test your current approach. All engagements are confidential.