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You have recently been appointed store manager at the Jamaica Office at Cheap Foods, a large regional supermarket chain in the Caribbean. 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 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 Food 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 to entice workers to join their union and have 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.

You later received orders from headquarters to discharge or in the words of one senior director "Get rid of all Union instigators immediately" from your store who have signed union authorization cards and are attempting to organize workers. Your regional manager also ordered you to prepare termination slips for each of the fired employees detailing false reasons for their termination.

-Explain whether or not you think employees should form a union at Cheap Foods

-Explain whether or not you think an unfair labour practice would be committed if you as the store manager act on the request that is being given to you by senior management.

- Using your understanding of labour laws, 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 headquarters?

-Develop a suggested plan of action/recommendations that the organization can use to prevent the risk of unionization.

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