This collection consists of union-prevention training materials and related articles, files from counter-union campaigns waged for a variety of companies, and other anti-union and union-busting consulting records collected or created by Leonard C. Scott between 1966 and 2013. Scott is a Cornell University, ILR School alumnus and human resources consultant who specialized in combatting union organizing and in developing programs to keep companies operating in a union-free environment.

Cite as: Leonard Scott Union-Prevention and Counter-Union Campaign Consulting Files #6474. Kheel Center for Labor-Management Documentation and Archives, Cornell University Library.

Advertising Posters Employee Ventilation and Employee Relations Program Audit

• Advertising Posters Company, Inc. Employee Ventilation and Employee Relations Program Audit, 1980
• Correspondence to John Lamers, Vice President of the Advertising Posters Company regarding transferring employees and job posting, 1981

Articles and News Clippings

• Analysis: Reversal of NLRB’s Certification of 'Craft-Like' Bargaining Unit, 1979
• BLS Report On Labor Union And Employee Association Membership, 1973
• Fire Department Fights Strife Long After Strike, 1980
• For Your Own Protection: Implications of Signing A Union Authorization Card, circa 1980
• Guarantee: The U.A.W. Hereby Guarantees, circa 1980
• I Said We’d Never Have A Union, 1980
• Internet search results: President’s labor management advisory committee, in The Lycos.net, circa 2000
• Labor Relations, 1979
• Membership And Local Statistics, Union Organizing Facts, Organizing in Healthcare Facilities, and NLRB Election Report, 1970-1978
• Negociaciones: Que Es La Verdad? Circa 1979
• Negotiations: What's The Truth? circa 1980
• Negotiations: What's The Truth? circa 1980
• News Briefs: Congressional Review of EEO Reorganization Plan, 1979
• Objectionable Conduct, 1979
• Productivity, Violence, 1975-1979
• Union Organizers: Savvy Strategists, 1978
• Union Proficiency Study Boomerangs on Pay Issue; A Labor Trophy, Slightly Tainted, 1979
• What 's In It For The Union And What The Union Promises You, circa 1980
• What Has Happened So far? circa 1980
• Why Unions Are Losing: The Role Of Today’s Labor Consultants, circa 1980
• Winning Organizational Campaigns, Communicating Adverse Consequences of Unionism: The Board's View, circa 1980

Bloom Companies Benefit Communication and Employee Ventilation

• Bloom Companies: Benefits Communication and Employee Ventilation Assignment, Feedback Session, 1984
• Bloom Companies: Benefits Communication and Employee Ventilation Assignment, Final Report, 1984

Campaign Information

• 10,000 stand in line for 46 jobs, circa 1977
• 25th Hour Speech, circa 1999
• Anti-union talking points, circa 1999
• Compliation of material including, Look Out Below; Do you know: What employers and supervisors can Not do; Management's Most Delicate Operation: Taking the "You" Out of "Union", circa 1970s
• Deterioration of an airline described, and Insurance will protect traveler if airline declares bankruptcy, circa 1999
• Government program decreases affect those most at risk, 1983
• Memorandum of Agreement By and Between Steelworkers International Union and Employees of Resol Manufacturing Corp., circa 1999
• Negociación ¿Cual Es La Verdad?, circa 1999
• Soviets: Reagan caused hatred, 1983
• The Most Important Job Quiz You May Ever Answer, circa 1999
• The Pimsletter on Business Strategy. Unions and Profits, 1978
• What Would A Strike Cost You?, circa 1999
• Why Labor Unions Have Grown Reluctant To Use the "S" Word. Global, High-Tech Economy Makes Striking Riskier As Membership Declines. A Sense of Shared Purpose, 1999
• You-Just-Can't-Win Dept.: Firm Sues Workers for Failing to Strike, circa 1999

Carbide Strike Record

• Announcement #1 [regarding a Union Carbide strike], 1966
• Records of Events Following The Company's Presentation of its Final Position, 1966-1967
• The Hour by Hour Story of an Eight Month Long Strike, 1966-1967

Course Syllabus for "The Role of the Supervisor"

• Course Syllabus for The Role of the Supervisor, 1978

Hood River Memorial Hospital Campaign Information

• Hood River Memorial Hospital Campaign Information (HRMH), 1976
• West Coast Industrial Relations Association, Inc. Campaign Procedures, circa 1976

Leonard Scott and Company Counter-Union Campaign Material Samples

• Samples of counter-union campaign materials Leonard Scott & Company has used in recent Chicago area assignments, 1980

Leonard Scott: A New Look at Unionism

• A New Look at Unionism, 1985
• Manager's Memo: A New Look at Unionism, 1985

Leonard Scott: Inclusive Capitalism: What It Looks Like in Practice

• Inclusive Capitalism: What It Looks Like in Practice, 2013

Leonard Scott: Running a Struck Plant: Some Do's and Don'ts

• Running a Struck Plant: Some Do's and Don't's, 1973

Leonard Scott: The Human Resources Program in the Growth Company

• The Human Resources Program in the Growth Company, 1985

Leonard Scott: The Quick Guide to Employee Motivation: Thirty-Three Proven Employee Motivation Concepts to Make Your Company a Winner

• The Quick Guide to Employee Motivation: Thirty-Three Proven Employee Motivation Concepts to Make Your Company a Winner, 2013

Maintaining Your Union-Free Status

• Maintaining Your Union-Free Status, circa 1973

National Labor Relations Board

• Local 745, IBT v NLRB, Empire Terminal Warehouse Co., 1965
• Review of NLRB on Election Campaigns, 1979
• Your Government Conducts an Election For you - on the job, circa 1970

Other Memos

• Correspondence from Don Paulson to Phil Arnold, 1979
• Counter-Organizational Track Record in Business/Industry, 1975-1977
• Memorandum and articles relating to the role of union-avoidance consultants and modern management methods, 1979
• Memorandum and related articles regarding Inadequate Representation and Unfunded Pension Liabilities, 1979
• Memorandum and statement regarding Johnny Poultry Act, 1979
• Memorandum in regard to Misrepresentations Prior to Election, 1979
• Memorandum regarding ways to legally inquire whether hospital employees intend to continue working, notwithstanding a strike, and memo discussing the Johnny Poultry Act, 1979
• The Mafia Tightens Its Grip on the Teamsters, 1974

Sioux Products vs. NLRB

• 2016 Correspondence from Leonard Scott to Cheryl Beredo explaining the Sioux Products, Inc. v. NLRB Case Decided by the U.S. Court of Appeals, Seventh Circuit, on March 24, 1983.

The Role of the Supervisor

• The Role of the Supervisor: A guide, circa 1978

Warren Ogden Memos

• "30-cent COLA Payment Triggers Pay Cutbacks At Struggling A&P"; "Sun Election to replace Union", 1981
• Handwritten notes on counter-union Campaigns, 1978
• Memorandum on Bargaining Tactics, 1979
• Memorandum on Bargaining-From-Scratch Statements, 1979
• Memorandum on Preventing Needless Strikes, 1978
• Memorandum on Remedies for Violation of National Labor Relations Act, 1979
• Memorandum on The Blocking Charge Rule, 1978
• Memorandum on the Duty of Employers to meet and confer under Fiberboard Case, circa 1979
• Memorandum on The Use of Struksnes Polls to Test Majority Status, 1979
• Memorandum on Tolling Employer Back Pay Liability, 1978
• Memorandum on Unilateral Implementation Of Wage And Benefit Changes, 1979
• Supervisor's Guide In A Strike, circa 1981
• The Declining Market for Unionization, 1978

WCIRA Campaign Procedures and What Employers Can and Cannot Do

• Anti-Union material listing what managers should not do, tips and recommendations, 1978
• Campaign Checklist, circa 1979
• Card Signing Talk, circa 1979
• Handwritten note includes UAW, TechForm, Buck Knives, Catalina Yatch, and Sheriton, Iowa, circa 1979
• Labor Board Ruling May Bar Millions of Workers from Forming Unions, 2006
• NLRB v. Rollins Telecasting, Inc.
• Number of RM and RD Elections. 1960-1979
• Profile of WCIRA Consultant, circa 1979
• Tentative Schedule for Opening Phase of Campaign, circa 1979
• Typical Campaign Issues WCIRA Can Expect To Face In The 1980's, circa 1979
• UARCO Inc. - Decision of the NLRB
• Union Organizing Techniques, circa 1979
• WCIRA As A Campaign Issue, circa 1979
• WCIRA Campaign Procedure, circa 1979
• What Management Can't Do, circa 1979
• Winning NLRB Elections, 1960-1979

WCIRA Industrial Relations Audit

• Audit Report to the Vice President of the Fluorocarbon Company, Sunnyvale, California, 1977
• WCIRA Industrial Relations Audit Confidential Pre-Audit Questionnaire, circa 1979
• West Coast Industrial Relations Association, Inc. correspondence with Jerome Dunn regarding an Employee Relations Audit Program for Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian, Newport Beach, California, 1979