Impact of Union‐Avoidance Strategy in Representation Elections

Managerial Opposition to Union Certification in Quebec and Ontario

“…With the exception of the "management consultant" category (see note 3 below), these data are essentially similar to those that originally appeared in Lawler and West (1985). Discrepancies can be attributed to a slight adjustment in the sample.…”

“…Lawler and West (1985) and Reed (1989) both found that supervisor training has no significant impact on union support, though Reed reports a negative and significant effect of supervisor training on union organizing success. Lawler and West's (1985) results also show a positive but insignificant relationship between the distribution of anti-union literature and the proportion of employees voting in favour of collective bargaining. However, two studies relying on alternative measures of this variable reach different conclusions.…”

“…Our results for captive audience speeches contrast with more mixed findings from previous American studies. Lawler and West (1985) examined the effect of captive audience speeches on the proportion of employees supporting the union and fail to find a statistically significant relationship between the two variables. On the other hand, Bronfenbrenner (1997) reports that 17.…”

“…Three studies (Lawler and West 1985;Reed 1989;Peterson, Lee and Finnegan 1992) examined the effect of threats on the proportion of employees supporting certification, while two of these (Reed 1989;Peterson, Lee and Finnegan 1992) examined the impact of employer threats on certification probability. All fail to find a significant relationship between employer threats and union organizing success.…”

“…3. This figure includes attorneys who act as campaign advisers while the figure of 20% reported in Lawler and West (1985) for this category excludes attorneys. 4.…”