Sadness reigns, as the final session for the Labor Studies Winter Semester comes to a close. This has been an incredible journey emanating from the beginnings of civilization and progressing through the annals of time and landing April 20,2016. Frankie the K, is an awesome professor with a wealth of knowledge, and the class learned a plethora of new information that covered all disciplines of education. We were honored with two guests representing the Teamster Union, Marian Novak, and Neil Pettit, both gave excellent presentations on union organizing and the laws governing such actions. Marian handed out literature, “34 Things Your Employer Can Not Do,” “Organizing for Power,” “What to Expect from Your Employer During Union Organizing,” and…
At the turn of the 20th century, a lot was happening for America. Populations were growing and business was booming. Between the years of 1860 and 1900 America saw a 171% rise in the Gross National Product. Big businesses were growing and people were moving from rural areas and from other countries in search of new opportunities. Men, women, and children entered the workforce.…
This is the idea that in order for the unions to put pressure on their employers you need to represent the public’s interest while putting financial pressure on the employer (Gray, slide 16. , Ross, Savage, pg. 22). The Chicago teachers union did this by gaining the majority of the publics backing, while striking from work, which put pressure on their government…
That’s where the Taft-Hartley Act came in place. Leader who led some of these unions started to take advantages of the people they were supposed to serve. There became a large number of strikes witch took a hard on the economy. In order to regain control over the situation the government created the Taft-Hartley act. It’s a federal law that was established 1947 that prohibited certain union practices and required improvement in union disclosure of financial and political dealings.…
For most factory workers, the unions were their only hope at helping them. These unions would turn into headaches for the governments. Unions did several things; one example, they engaged in collective bargaining. Collective bargaining was negotiation created between the employees and the employers; usually the negotiated over better working conditions and better salaries. If the unions did not receive what they had asked for, then they would go in strike.…
The 1800s was a rough century. They had a war going on, a lot of strikes, and death. But right after the war was over people started reconstructing America. During the reconstruction there were more jobs available and there were labor unions forming to help with employment. But the labor unions didn’t really work that well because what they care about is pay, worker’s safety, and work hours…
As the article, “California Farmworkers’ Strikes of 1933” reports, the Cannery Agricultural Workers Industrial Union Central Strike Committee managed to get the strikers to go back to work with only less than half of their demands met. Bronfenbrenner states, “In the end, there was no clear answer on who won but with all the sides--the growers, the union, and the federal government--claiming victory” (Bronfenbrenner 5). Here it shows, the landowners received people to work in the fields once again, but were not able to keep the income they desired. The Mexicans on strike earned a small raise, but without any union recognition. The federal government managed to get the strikers to return to picking cotton, and controlled the violence between the landowners and the…
This cut in pay ultimately led to the worker’s decisions to strike in order to make a change in the…
Seven times before, baseball stopped, and each time, the owners were the ones who were castigated (Sports Illustrated). One thing that let up to the strike and that fueled it was on Aug. 1, the owners of the clubs refused to make a $7.8 million dollar payment to the player’s pension and benefit plan. The union and the players thought that if they didn’t strike, then the owners would just imply their thoughts to baseball without contest.…
In the contemporary society, most governments embrace and support unionization of workers, in order to ensure the welfare of all employees is maintained, both in the private and public institutions. Most of these unions mobilize their employers in terms of better salaries, better working conditions such as environments that free from hazards, unfair firing of employees, among others. Apparently, though the presence of these unions has a number of benefits to the associated members, there are some categories of individuals who cannot be unionized or if they have to be, a lot of factors must be taken into consideration. For example, there are varying views concerning whether college athletes should be unionized or not. Most claim that college athletes are employees, as defined by common law, which stipulate that the effective way of testing the employment relationship is one where an individual performs services for another a hiring contract, and subjected to the control of others.…
The fireman 's wage strikes occurred in the latter part of 2002. A series of forty eight hour and eight day strikes were implemented. The objective of these strikes was to cause disruption to the normal fire cover provided by the fire department thereby making the general public aware of their pay demands. By highlighting their monopoly on fire control and trading on their high standing in the community the union hoped to influence the government 's decision to offer the firemen a 40% wage increase. The union representing the firemen were asking for such a substantial increase because they felt that a fire fighters pay had not increased in parity with other essential services pay over the past 25 years.…
The Great railroad strike of 1877. It began in Martinsburg, West Virginia. The workers for the Baltimore and Ohio railroad wanted their pay cut returned to them, that they had lost over the last two years. The railroad workers have lost almost twice their wages over that period of time.…
It can be solved through more passive and peaceful ways so that in the end everyone in the community is happy and no one else is extremely affected. I have argued in this essay that when schoolteachers strike there are no advantages for the children. Although teachers have many concerns with their jobs, it may seem possible…
A union decision to waive it's right to bargain over a mandatory subject is a topic of debate. Oberer, in his analysis of labor laws, points out that the role of the union is to ensure that all the grievances and the pleas of the workers are presented on the bargaining table especially on mandatory subjects (Oberer, 2002). The unions are mandated with the responsibility of presenting the defense of the workers and what they would like to be included in the bargaining. One of the ways through which the union cannot refrain from bargaining the rights of the workers are when the grievance out rightly affects the staff by a large margin. Such an issue should be bargained and the management should be made to set in place mechanisms which can be used to cohesively solve the issue.…
Last week, 591 out of 609 workers from the Harvard University Dining Service (HUDS) voted to go on strike if the school refused to come to an agreement regarding their salary demands by Friday, Sept. 30. The proposition suggested a yearly salary of $35,000 for full-time employees, as well as affordable health care. Among the total 750 members of HUDS, 48 percent receive less than what is considered a “living wage.” Even with the average HUDS employee earning $21.89 per hour, as well as retirement benefits and health insurance, the school’s seasonal employment policy results in workers receiving less than $34,000 annually, which is insufficient to support most multi-person housing in the Boston area.…