Sample Letter to Employees About Their Benefits

Abstract

Written communications to employees can be a powerful tool during a union organizing campaign. The topics can vary greatly. An employer with a track record of excellent benefits and efforts to improve them periodically can have a compelling story to tell, particularly when combined with the realities of union contract negotiations and the results unions may have obtained in contracts elsewhere. Quick research on the success (or failure) of a petitioning union at other companies can result in information that draws a striking contrast to the benefits employees receive on a union‐free basis, and which they risk in the course of collective bargaining negotiations. The following is a sample letter that demonstrates an approach that can be taken in conveying such information to employees. Of course, the facts cited in such a letter should also be accurate, relevant and verifiable.