In labor-management relationships, a key tactic of management is to find union members who want a boost to the ego and can therefore be made to feel needy. Such members can be manipulated until they are double agents for management, in effect, passing on contrived information, telling their own union members, “Our committee is getting us killed. I’ve got buddies in management. That’s what they tell me. They might shut this plant down if we keep on like this.”
