You note that, collectively, the laws set certain standards for how employees should be treated, identify unfair labor practices, and regulate much of the relationship between labor and management during the process of unionization. The later point becomes critically important to you when you receive a phone call from one of your factory managers. He says that an organizer from UAW visited his site earlier in the day and indicated plans to start a union organizing campaign.

Sure enough, within a week the organizing campaign begins throughout all your factories. UAW representatives meet with your employees regularly when they are off$-$the$-$job and explain the benefits of unionizing. In particular, they promise your employees that, as union members, they will receive periodic pay raises and improved job security. Your employees respond by agreeing to join the union with a $65\%$ approval vote.

With the union in place, you are able to negotiate an agreement with union leadership that you find fair and economically sustainable. The next step is: