BUILD A
UNION-PROOF CULTURE
We believe that every company can be an employer of choice.
You want to create an employee culture that inspires and motivates, one where common goals provide every member of your team with an ownership mindset. That ultimate goal is what we call the UnionProof Culture. Unlike other “union avoidance” resources, we are focused on building corporate cultures in which unions are simply unnecessary.
Over 40 years of experience taught us that connecting with employees is the clear path to creating successful companies that matter.
We’ve moved from slide shows to online delivery, and our approach has changed almost as dramatically! Here’s the story behind our award-winning resources:
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1979
The name Projections comes from the multi-projector slide shows that Darrell and Lynn Dobresk and their one employee produced for employers. The next 8 years were spent honing the company’s skills in reaching employees effectively with an approachable & believable voice.
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1987
Tom Foods in Columbus, Georgia asks, “Have you ever considered producing a show on video?” We bought a VHS camera at Sears and read the manual on the way to the video shoot. Although, Projections never looked back as this new era began, they did not forget that the message was still the most critical element of the process.
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1988
We produced our first video in Spanish for Weathashade. Other foreign firsts: Chinese for Reno Hilton in 1993, Japanese for MacSteel in 1996, Vietnamese for Tacoma Tribune in 1997, French for Michelin in 2002, Polish and Haitian Creole in 2005 and Hmong, Bengoli and Punjahi for FVS Payment Systems in 2011. Today, production of multiple languages for companies is a common occurrence.
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1989
Projections moves into a new facility in Atlanta to both accommodate its rapid growth and to build a state of the art production facility complete with a studio and working sets.
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1991
The first of what will be hundreds of Orientation videos for Clients all across the U.S. and Canada is produced for Raritan River Steel in Perth Amboy, New Jersey.
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1992
Projections is up to 8 employees including a young CNN intern, named Jennifer Graham who is hired as Studio Manager. She eventually wears every hat at Projections including scriptwriting, producer, editor, videographer and today is our most Senior employee and our Chief Operating Officer.
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1994
Projections wins an International Television Association Gold Award for Scriptwriting for Violence in the Workplace. This is the first of hundreds of top awards for writing, animation, directing, videography, music, web design and eLearning. A true testament to the Violence video is that is still sold today some 25+ years later.
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1995
Projections hires Walter Orechwa as Video Production Manager overseeing a staff of 12 studio production employees. Over the next four years, Projections doubles both in size and revenue.
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1996
This internet thing is catching on and www.projectionsvideo.com is launched. Our first foray into the world wide web with our very own corporate website. An online, click here to turn the page website.
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1997
Custom video number 1,000 is an award-winning* Role-Play produced for Boeing Airlines in Wichita, Kansas.
*For Excellence in Directing - Gold Award -
1999
What do you mean Clients might want to communicate to their employees via the web? Projections produces its first website for Continental General Tire in North Carolina. Projections now has 25 employees operating as Video group and a Multimedia group.
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2002
Projections retrofits its entire studio space for green screen shooting to produce 90 training videos in 120 days for the World’s largest retailer, a six-DVD Manager training series for all of its retail locations in the U.S. A massive project that paved the way for a lot of our green screen technological advancements that we still utilize today.
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2003
Projections develops its first eLearning program for the Kerr McGee Corporation. This award winning crisis management training was rolled out in 4 segments over a year reaching employees at both land-based chemical facilities and oil platforms in the middle of the ocean!
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2006
Projections is purchased by its Vice-President of Operations, Walter Orechwa, an employee since 1995, as the owners retire after 27 exciting years.
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2007
Projections promotes custom interactive training resources and is featured in the September issue of Training Magazine.
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2008
Projections thinks way outside the box as it develops an award-winning eLearning program for Trader Joe’s in-store safety training for its 7,200 employees.
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2009
Custom video number 2,000 is produced for Queen of the Valley Medical Center in Napa Valley, California as Projections celebrates one of its best years in the history of the company.
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2010
Jeff Foxworthy visits Projections to work with our team on a special video project for the Encouragement Foundation called “7 Days Across America”, a whirlwind trip to 14 cities that nominated an outstanding teen in their community.
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2011
Projections is honored for the 3rd year in a row as one of America’s fastest growing companies by Inc. 5000.
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2012
Productions develops the very economical A Better Leader eLearning training program for managers to launch in 2013 featuring 36 modules and a very powerful but easy to use Dashboard for adminstrators with tracking and reporting capabilities. ABL wins a Gold Cindy Award in 2013 for training.
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2013
Custom video number 2,500 is produced for Guitar Center in Brooklyn, New York. A remarkable accomplishment as the entire Projections video and multimedia production teams have each attained 10-15+ years with Projections.
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2014
Projections celebrates year #35 by producing multiple videos delivered to homes via websites, social media and flash drives to aid VW Chattanooga in defeating the UAW in a historical win 712 to 626.
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2015
CEO, Walter Orechwa and the UnionProof team complete his award-winning book Proof Positive - Building A Work Environment Where Unions Simply Are Not Necessary.
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2016
In 2016, the UnionProof team at Projections introduced UnionProof Certification, an online learning platform designed to help provide Human Resources and labor relations professionals the skills they need to build a union proof culture.
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2017
UnionProof online streaming platform launches delivering 24x7 instantaneous viewing of over 140 labor relations videos in English and Spanish for attorneys, consultants and clients.
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2018
Brings the conclusion of multi-year campaigns against the IAM for Boeing. It takes a website, multiple videos, social media, billboards and radio ads to beat the IAM not once but twice.
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2019
Projections is celebrating the big four-O, year #40 in business as we complete a video production and website for Vantage Foods in a dialect of Nepali.
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2020
Launch of Laborwise Leadership for supervisors. A revolution in approach and tone in eLearning training for front-line leaders.
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THE UNION-PROOF MISSION
We give our clients the ability to become an employer of choice by providing resources that are highly effective, simple to use, and that deliver behavioral change at a cultural level.
OUR DREAM
To revolutionize the way companies connect with their employees.
VISION
We offer companies trusted, innovative, comprehensive, employee communication resources that keep them union-free while inspiring and motivating their employees.
LEADERSHIP
At UnionProof, our entire team is made up of leaders. We strive to attract, develop and retain the best talent for our business. We challenge our people to take ownership of their domain, to demonstrate a “can-do” attitude, lead when necessary, and always foster a collaborative and mutually supportive environment.
UNION-PROOF VALUES
We Value Loyalty
We are ethical and honest in all that we do, and value above all else the confidence our clients place in us. We look to inspire trust by saying what we mean, matching our behaviors to our words and taking responsibility for our actions.
We Value Innovation
We thrive on never standing still, and value creativity and ingenuity. We seek innovations and ideas that make things better. We anticipate market trends and move quickly to embrace them. We are not afraid to take informed, responsible risk.
We Value Passion
We are passionate about winning and about our resources and people. We believe the fun is in the work. Our passion extends to connecting with our clients’ needs and ultimate objectives.
BECOME AN EMPLOYER OF CHOICE
Subscribe to our newsletter, and each Monday we’ll send you ideas and insights from employee industry experts so you can create your own union-proof workforce.
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