International Focus
There are many Labor Relations consultancies in the United States and worldwide. They specialize in industries such as entertainment (radio, television and motion picture), hospitality (culinary and food service), communications, manufacturing, aerospace, utilities, healthcare, service (public and private) and more. Although many work only in the United States, trade union organizing takes place multi-nationally. According to the AFL-CIO "One of the largest U.S. firms, Labor Relations Institute (LRI) offers a “Guaranteed Winner Package.” If the corporation doesn’t “win”—that is, smash workers’ efforts to form a union—it doesn’t pay. In both the U.S. and Europe, organizing campaigns increasingly involve immigrant non English speaking workers. Some consultancies specialize in providing services in international markets. As John Logan pointed out one is “assisting clients whether represented by trade unions or not in all areas including transformative changes, collective agreements, labor disputes, works councils and union recognition campaigns with fluency in many languages including Chinese, Spanish, French, and Tagalog.
Internationally, compliance with labor laws within developed countries can be vastly different from emerging countries going through rapid economic growth. Trade union organizers and management must not only know the law but must avoid unfair labor practice charges ULPs. Application and adherence to labor laws may differ worldwide but labor laws continue to expand such as the Labour Law of the People's Republic of China and Indian labour law. Due to the changing global and multinational employment environment and labor relations/employment laws, the modern labor movement turns more and more to professional guidance. Trade union organizing often starts with workers who are untrained or unaware of labour law and may cause unintentional infractions due to inexperience or ignorance of applicable law. Workers desiring trade union representation turn to experienced professional organizers from trade unions. Conversely, employer organizations and management may work with corporate counsel and sometimes temporary professional labor relations consultants which trade unions (fairly or unfairly) call union busters. Internationally, laws may be different in how a bargaining unit is defined for workers with job descriptions involving supervision or management. Because the operative word is “law”, trade unions and workplaces may retain legal counsel to navigate the complexities of local and/or international labor laws in order to avoid unfair labor practice charges (ULP).
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