NLRB Election Campaign Videos - Spanish
COMMUNICATIONS FOR the Hispanic WORKFORCE
One of the few parts of the labor force where unions have made inroads is among Hispanic employees. Without effective, persuasive Spanish language communications, this growing segment of the work force is especially vulnerable to union organizing.
Labor Relations Institute has responded to this threat with an all-Spanish version of the NLRB Election Campaign Package. Spanish-speaking presenters and Spanish graphics mirror our highly successful English program. Five employee information videos duplicate the core issues developed by the English videos regarding the dangers of union representation and are the foundation of the Spanish Campaign Packages. Interviews with Hispanic employees who tell of their own union experiences add further credibility with your non-English-speaking work force. View the package options in the sidebar at right.
When making separate presentations to both English-speaking and Spanish-speaking voters, you can be confident that your union-free messages are consistent and equally effective.
Video Summaries and Previews
How Unions Work
Voters are introduced to the important facts about how a union operates, including how income is generated through the dues of members, and how this money is typically spent. Organized labor's continuing decline is documented, as well as its motives for pursuing new members. Common organizing tactics are examined. Union-represented employees and a former union organizer tell of the distortions, half-truths, and lies that organizers often resort to during a campaign. Voters get the facts about how difficult it is to remove a union from the work place once it's voted in.
Preview How Unions Work (Requires password) Running time 26:22
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Collective Bargaining
The collective bargaining process is explained. Voters become familiar with the many pitfalls of collective bargaining for unionized employees. They are shown how current wages and benefits are often traded away in exchange for contract provisions that are only of value to a union. Lengthy and inefficient grievance procedures are exposed. Union decertification elections are explained and voters are shown the overwhelming margin by which union members, when given the chance, usually vote to get rid of their union. Employees talk candidly about their experiences and disappointments with union representation.
Preview Collective Bargaining (Requires password) Running time 24:24
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Union Constitutions and Bylaws
Provisions taken directly from union constitutions are cited. Organized labor's own words reveal the extensive restrictions placed on the rights of unionized employees. Eye-opening disciplinary and revenue-generating provisions are examined. Actual fines imposed against union members are documented. A former union organizer tells voters the truth about what is contained in a union constitution. Voters come to understand how seriously a union takes its constitution and bylaws, and that it will not hesitate to enforce these complicated documents.
Preview Union Constitutions and Bylaws (Requires password) Running time 21:14
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Job Security and Strikes
This pivotal video begins with a discussion of job losses in heavily unionized industries. Many of those lost jobs are traced to restrictive union work rules that compromise an employer's ability to compete. Voters are shown typical union contract provisions that can endanger a unionized employee's job security, as well as self-defeating union tactics such as employer boycotts. The decreasing effectiveness of union strikes is examined. The most common immediate consequences for striking employees are explained. A union strike is documented, from its beginning to the company's closing. Dramatic employee interviews remind your voters of the potentially devastating effects of a union strike.
Preview Job Security and Strikes (Requires password) Running time 23:38
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Election Day
NLRB election day procedures are reviewed. The importance of voting is stressed. Some of the most likely ways an employee's working life could change as a result of union representation are dramatically illustrated. Actual unfair labor practice charges filed against unions by their own members are documented. A former union official and union members appeal to voters to reject union representation.
Preview Election Day (Requires password) Running time 22:39
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