Anyone out there have any experience with difficult unions? Most of my clients are union free due to their size and workforce so I am a bit out of my depth here. I have been asked to attend a meeting with the union on behalf of the employer and with their management team to discuss classifications, wages and other conditions. My client has only 80 staff of which the manufacturing staff are the ones being targeted - I think there are about 40 of them. This union has been putting pressure on the organisation for two weeks, standing out the front of their premises each morning at 7.30am as workers arrive, holding two meetings at lunch times in the factory and not letting the factory manager sit in on the meeting - in fact swearing at him to get out! Now they want a meeting with management. Any tips, advice, strategies would be very welcome.
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