A sample speech to employees recommending they vote against union representation during the certification election

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25th Hour Speech, circa 1999

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25th Hour Speech, circa 1999 
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25th Hour Speech, circa 1999 
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A sample speech to employees recommending they vote against union representation during the 
certification election. 
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-251h HOUR SPEECH -
This Friday you have the opportunity to vote on whether you want union representation. 
Our management doesn' t want a union, and we believe that a large majority of our employ·ees 
feel the same way. But it's your vote that wil l decide this. Both you and our management will 
be bound by the choice you and y our co-employees make on Friday. 
In its campaign, the union has " pulled out all the stops," since it has nothing to lose and every-
thing to gain. The union has made wild promises; the union has used false figures and untrue 
rumors to mislead you and to tear down our managment; and the union has threatened and pres-
sured our workers to try and prevent those who don't want this union from having their say. In 
short, the union has done any thing to get your vote. 
Our management has not made a single promise or uttered a single threat. What we have done is 
to try and give you straightforward answers and honest facts. We believe that the facts can lead 
to only one decision - no union here! 
The decision you will make on Friday is your decision . This is the way it must be because you 
are the ones who will be most affected. 
The union can only gain , through your dues, if you vote it in. If the union loses, it will simply 
try to organize at some other place. 
Our management will operate, union or no union. We are not concerned with any strike threat. 
We are not worried about union pressu re forc ing an increase in our costs. We would deal with 
this union, as the representative of our employees, in the same way we deal with any outsider, on 
a c Id, hard impersonal basis, There wo uld not be and could not be consideration for the indivi-
dual. We would be buying labor. through a labor broker , a union, and we would pay only com-
pe titive prices for it. 
But where do you stand? You would be bound by any contract the union negotiated, whether it 
was for your best interest or not. You would be pressured to join the union and pay dues. You 
would be subject t o possible strike action, and the trouble and violence that goes with strikes, n ot 
to mention your personal loss of wages and other problems. You would face the day-to-day 
bickering and backbit ing which goes with the union and its supporters. You would have to deal 
with two bosses - the union and its stewards and your supervisor. 
It's your job. Your working conditions. Your decision. 
LRA Note: I.RA 's p urpose in prese,nting this speech is to allow you the opportunity to pull out 
those ideas and though ts which may be suitable for your special needs and purposes. This speech 
is not recommended for use "as is" without consideration by your own counsel or advisor. LR.A's 
Communication Division is available to subscribers, upon request, for specific consulting assign-
merits in the area of communications with employees during union election campaigns. For more 
information, c,all or write LRA directly . 
I!'!.&.! H LABOR RELATIONS ASSOC., INC. 
THREE GREENNAY PLAZA EAST, ~OJSTON. TEXAS 77016, 713 621-2014 


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