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While union participation reached a record-low of 10% last year, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, strike activity was on the rise, with workers leading 33 major work stoppages, a 24-year high.HR pros can play a strategic role in helping management navigate unionization efforts, and to best guide them, HR needs to understand what they legally can and cannot do, according to Devora Lindeman, an employment lawyer at New York City-based firm Greenwald Doherty, LLP. A misstep, she said, can result in an unfair labor practice charge from the National Labor Relations Board.
Lindeman and John Frehse, the global head