Labour relations

Fair and Equal Pay, Not So Fair and Equal Labor Unions seem like a decaying memory; over the past few years, numbers of membership of unions have dropped to a low 11.1 percent in 2015, while membership in 1983 was at 20.1%. (“Union Members Summary”) The drop-in numbers seem to be related to economic issues like the recession in December of 2007(“By comparison”). Or could it be that workers are sick of equal pay for all employees? People that belong to unions, seem tired of going to work, doing…

In society there are two different contracts that people live with. The first being a contract with an employer. These contracts limit a person from doing certain things within a company. If they violate something on that contract, they will suffer the consequences by getting fired or getting suspended without pay. The other is an invisible contract with God that put our actions in our own hands. If our actions get carried away, we will pay for it in the afterlife. These two contracts are…

Unions exist in almost every industry from manufacturing and construction to banking and government. Their objective is to represent workers by acting as a bridge between management and employees. Among other important issues, unions facilitate negotiations for increased wages, benefits, and improved working conditions. While a union’s historical purpose is to offer redress for employer violations of employees’ civil liberties and moral rights the tactics that unions have taken in doing so also…

Employees are given numerous rights through labor and employment laws. The National Labor Relations Act has given workers a “voice” that would have otherwise been stifled by their employers. Before the NLRA, the employers ruled the workplace with an iron fist. They were allowed coerce their workers to adjust to lower wages and longer hours without having a say. If workers were to strike, the employer could implore harsh methods like shooting guns at employees on strike in order to attempt to…

employees wish to join a union or not they have the rights to organize, create, support a labor union to bargain collectively with their employers. The NLRA encourages collective bargaining because it a tool that ensures healthy company- labor relations. The labor union sees itself as the primary representative that sits and exclusively bargain with the employer over employees’ rights to provide specific services. The Act protects the rights of workers on any discriminatory conduct that…

as part of a collective bargaining agreement between unionized employees and an employer organization (delineated in Exhibit 12.1 in the Mello text)? How do "Right to Work" laws constrain these agreements? There are no requirements in place in relation to content of any collective-bargaining agreement, but NLRA classifies bargaining items into the categories of mandatory, permissive, or prohibited. Mandatory items must be negotiated in good faith. These items include wages, benefits, hours,…

Fast trade is the key of globalization. Through international trade, people have access to products that they can’t find in their own homeland, It might sound beneficial using comparative advantage and being more efficient but when we are living in a developed country and we get all these products for our satisfaction at low prices, we don’t see the other side of globalization and get to experience the hard work that was put in to get a $6 shirt in Wal-Mart. On one hand, globalization is…

employers did not like these strikes and fought back, sometimes becoming really violent. The Taft Hartley Act, created by Senator Robert Alphonso Taft and Representative Fred Allan Hartley in 1947, was an act that changed some of the National Labor Relations Act of 1935. The…

7.1 Employment Law Concepts: Employment law concepts: Fossum (2012) explained that employment law is a broad area that formed form everything employee and employer relationship. Labor law on the other hand covered the negotiation process between employees an employer. Fossum( 2012) also explained that there are so many laws and regulations that control Employment law, and these laws and regulations could be both federal laws or state laws that is different depending on the state. Independent…

Understanding Labor Relations & Collective Bargaining Name: Institutional Affiliation Understanding Labor Relations & Collective Bargaining Introduction Labor relations and collective bargaining represents the ways in which workers organize themselves in order to increase their bargaining power with the employer. The employers join or set up a union that is expected to represent their grievances that relate to fair and competitive wages, pensions, bonuses as well as good working…