Unionization in Asia
You are an expatriate manager at a manufacturing facility in
Asia on your first assignment abroad. You are aware of increasing concern among
your employees (mostly young women) about wages that barely permit them to live
at subsistence level. The plant is not unionized and you know that your
superiors in your home country are not supportive of efforts to organize
workers. You also know that if workers vote to form a union and then demand
higher wages, headquarters is likely to shift production elsewhere. If the plant
were shut down, your employs would lose their jobs and you would be
transferred. Should you encourage or discourage your workers in their efforts
to unionize? Explain your decision.
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