ADOPTING MODERN TOOLS- THE STANDPOINT OF LABOR UNION MEMBERS
ADOPTING MODERN TOOLS- THE STANDPOINT OF LABOR UNION MEMBERS

Summary/Abstract: Availability of modern managing tools- is not enough: willing, adopting and practically using are more essential; are most of the players ready to change, to learn and adopt? Or maybe day to day life takes part of them back to head-on collisions… as they have been used too in the past; do they understand that managements use all new methods, tools, external relations, knowledge and experts to radically change equilibrium and gain more power? Enquiring is focused on a leading, well established organization that reflects those change aspects such as: moving from being governmental subsidized subsidiary to competitive organ, experiencing privatization processes and tenders, outsourcing projects and developing subjects, using extensively all modern tools and more than thosetrying to weaken the labor union and the organized labor every day and every act they run.That new realm leads management to practically increase usage of new tools. This article consists on a case study, based on a leading organ in transportation market in Israel. The article reflects the process and those modern tools adopting- first by the management to leverage power- the way they are grabbed from inside of the organization, including the benefits (or loss) that change yields for the labor union success and for the employees. That case study enables generalization since it represents (and affected by) the trend of change; it is a large scale organization, mature, profitable, modern managing orientation and managing team, modern equipped organization and more. The enquiry information sources are diversified and include formal documentations, publications, agreements, negotiation documentary, researcher’s profound involvement (as an external adviser) along the years, till nowadays, taking active part in the processes.

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