Are your employees happy? Are they merely content? If they're not getting the answers they deserve, are they considering alternative solutions to satisfy their needs? Such alienation not only causes internal strife and discord, it also can cause severe financial hardship to all involved. Now, more than ever, employees are drowning in stress developed from their work life. The majority of the U.S. population spends over half their time away from their families and at work. Based of recent national studies, 7 out of 10 working mothers and fathers report they don't have enough time with their family. A report conducted for The Conference Board by TNS, finds only 45% of those surveyed say that they are satisfied with their jobs, down from 61.1% in 1987. Such discontent among team members unveils the company's vulnerabilities and extends an open invitation to unwarranted third parties to intervene on behalf of the employees' involved. A company that can provide a work-life balance, by focusing on its teammates, is a company worth calling “your home away from home.” That’s how many companies, like Owens and Minor, drive success. They identify clearly that their "teammates are their greatest asset".Would your company receive a Triple A (Annual, Accountable, Action) rating from its employees? Does your company maintain an Annual Employee Assessment to monitor an on-going metric of employee engagement? Does your company maintain Accountability of its employee surveys in sharing the relative findings with all staff members in order to adjust workplace practices accordingly? Does your company develop Action plan strategies which invites all employees to openly discuss mutually appreciated resolutions?With integrity and honesty as the foundation of your core values, you create and cherish an environment where your teammates are empowered to make a difference.

Cruz & Associates is one of the nation's leading labor relations firms, helping businesses manage change in the workplace. We are experienced forward-thinkers who combine hands-on success solving difficult human resources and labor and human resources challenges, with new strategic solutions for keeping the workforce connected to the goals of the organization.Change is the watchword of the future. Old boundaries are gone. Markets are moving faster than ever before. While organizations can't predict the future, they can be ready for whatever it brings by using the best communications and human resources practices to educate, motivate and align their employees to new operating realities.Cruz & Associates has helped hundreds of clients from small businesses to Fortune 100 corporations achieve employee buy-in for new business realities, often in come-from-behind situations. To better serve our clients' needs, we have become more versatile in our capabilities. While we continue to offer the most effective labor relations and campaign management services, we have integrated them with communications strategies, interactive workplace skills, and change management solutions. We too have changed by recruiting top-ranked management professionals and expanding our network of alliance partners.In the crowded field of management consultants, one key factor sets us apart - our experience at successfully reconnecting employees and management under the most difficult circumstances. While the marketplace continues to coin buzz words for change management, these terms simply describe skills and concepts that Cruz & Associates has been practicing successfully on the front lines of the changing workplace for years.Let us help you reconnect your work force.

The Burke Group (TBG) is the largest labor relations consulting firm providing training and guidance to all levels of management leaders throughout the U.S. (Hawaii and Alaska), Puerto Rico, Canada, Mexico, the U.K., Western Europe and Central America. We are experienced with the unique cultural nuances of union recognition, counter organizing and decertification issues faced by large, small, and multi-national organizations in the changing global economy. Our emphasis is labor relations and strategic guidance as it relates to staying union free through preventive programs as well as counter recognition and union organizing campaigns. The Burke Group (TBG) has grown steadily for 25 years and currently directs more than 40 culturally diverse professional consultants from multiple locations throughout the USA. We have helped hundreds of businesses in virtually every industry including healthcare to meet their most critical union and non-union labor relations challenges.

Permanent Solutions Labor Consultants, Inc. is a global Labor Relations and Human Resource consulting firm specializing in both healthcare and non-healthcare environments. Our consultants are former union organizers and former human resource executives with extensive union campaign experience who have made it their personal mission to promote positive employee relations in a union free environment. Permanent Solutions’ consultants are able to provide your organization with an "INSIDE EDGE" because they were once entrenched within the union or have fought to remain union free on the management side. In other words, our consultants know how the unions think, how they react and how to win! Our HR consultants know how to assist organizations in developing a culture where employees will not seek out a union. Our team is trained to help your organization build a Positive Employee Relation’s Firewall between the union and your employees.Our consulting services and training programs are designed to promote positive employee relations. Our goal is to provide "PERMANENT SOLUTIONS" which stand the test of time, while building a working environment within your organization’s DNA that increases levels of engagement and trust between employees and management.

NorthStar EMS, LP leads the way by setting the standard for the private ambulance industry in Texas. At NorthStar EMS, we strive toward active and beneficial involvement with the communities in which we serve. We are not merely a business, but an integral member of our community. Our success lies in matching the needs of our customers with superior ambulance and wheelchair transportation services, creating a seamless transition between facility care and patient transportation. With operations throughout the Greater Houston area, the Dallas / Fort Worth metroplex, and serving the I-10 corridor to Beaumont, NorthStar EMS is committed to exceeding all expectations as they continue to lead the way as the industry leader in patient transportation services.

PTI Labor Research serves the needs of the Human Resources and Labor Relations community with powerful custom communications solutions including corporate and union specific videos, e-based communication tools, and in depth research services that support and enhance a Company’s union-free strategy. Our goal is to assist you in remaining union-free by utilizing information to promote a positive employee relations environment.

American Medical Response (AMR) is the nation’s leading manager and provider of medical transportation. AMR provides emergency response and dispatch services, non-emergency transport services, air ambulance services, event medical services, managed transportation services and paramedic and EMT training. AMR is locally operated in 38 states and the District of Columbia.

Rural/Metro is a national leader in private ambulance and fire protection services in 20 states and more than 450 communities from coast to coast. Rural/Metro's EMS professionals provide more than 1.3 million 911 emergency and interfacility ambulance transports annually. Our firefighters respond to more than 60,000 callsfor assistance each year. Our experienced and proven management team is supported by 21 zoneexecutives and local operations managers with an average of 24 years of industry experience.