Employee Committees

Pauline

We have a committee made up of management employees and one non-managment employee from the police department and one employee from our fire department who is in the union. We meet to discuss benefit changes/rate increases that effect the whole city. The committee solicits feedback from employees and makes recommendations for changes to City Council. Is this putting us in violation of the NLRA and make us a company-dominated union?

System

I believe you may have an issue. Was the represented employee selected by the Union or management? Is this a common practice? Does your collective bargaining agreement allow management to select team members who will be making recommendations on rates or pay/benefits or working conditions? Union leadership is usually responsible for negotiating these issues. Unless they are in agreement with whom you have selected they could grieve and /or file an unfair labor charge.