You have recently been appointed regional manager in the Jamaica region of Cheap Foods, a large regional supermarket chain in the Caribbean with over 14 Stores Island wide. Your organization has been in operation for over 25 years and have prided themselves on maintaining a non-union status. Management believes that this is due to the good industrial relations management practices in place such as fair compensation and benefits, good relationship between management and staff, and even prided themselves on giving staff an extra vacation day for their birthdays. Cheap Foods intends to keep their organization free of any union involvement and are not fond of union instigators. Recently, United Food Workers Union (UFWU), a local union, has attempted to organize employees to form a union in Jamaica and have already begun a union campaign in 8 of the 14 stores to entice workers to join their union and have been secretly preparing their union proposition. This new development was reported to top management at headquarters in Trinidad and Tobago and a meeting was held to determine how to deal with this new development. As the new regional manager, you were called into an emergency meeting with top management and given the directive to terminate or, in the words of one senior director, “Get rid of all Union instigators immediately” from your stores who have signed union authorization cards and are attempting to organize workers. Senior management also ordered you to prepare termination slips for each of the fired employees detailing false reasons for their termination. Using your knowledge of trade unions and their roles, explain whether or not you think employees should form a union at Cheap Foods. Using your understanding of labour laws: Explain whether or not you think an unfair labour practice would be committed if you, as the regional manager, act on the request that is being given to you by senior management and; Discuss the unfair labour practice(s) that could be violated if you were to prepare termination slips. You are require to provide detail explanation of the violation. As the store manager, how will you respond to the requests from senior management? Provide management with at least 3 recommendations that the organization can use to prevent the risk of unionization.

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You have recently been appointed regional manager in the Jamaica region of Cheap Foods, a large regional supermarket chain in the Caribbean with over 14 Stores Island wide. Your organization has been in operation for over 25 years and have prided themselves on maintaining a non-union status. Management believes that this is due to the good industrial relations management practices in place such as fair compensation and benefits, good relationship between management and staff, and even prided themselves on giving staff an extra vacation day for their birthdays. Cheap Foods intends to keep their organization free of any union involvement and are not fond of union instigators. Recently, United Food Workers Union (UFWU), a local union, has attempted to organize employees to form a union in Jamaica and have already begun a union campaign in 8 of the 14 stores to entice workers to join their union and have been secretly preparing their union proposition. This new development was reported to top management at headquarters in Trinidad and Tobago and a meeting was held to determine how to deal with this new development. As the new regional manager, you were called into an emergency meeting with top management and given the directive to terminate or, in the words of one senior director, “Get rid of all Union instigators immediately” from your stores who have signed union authorization cards and are attempting to organize workers. Senior management also ordered you to prepare termination slips for each of the fired employees detailing false reasons for their termination. Using your knowledge of trade unions and their roles, explain whether or not you think employees should form a union at Cheap Foods. Using your understanding of labour laws: Explain whether or not you think an unfair labour practice would be committed if you, as the regional manager, act on the request that is being given to you by senior management and; Discuss the unfair labour practice(s) that could be violated if you were to prepare termination slips. You are require to provide detail explanation of the violation. As the store manager, how will you respond to the requests from senior management? Provide management with at least 3 recommendations that the organization can use to prevent the risk of unionization.
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