Collaboration is vital for any business and its leaders, but knowing that each organization’s strategies and technologies can be quite different. Initiating collaboration comes from various corporate cultures, goals, budgets, and overall, different approaches. This paper emphasizes on the negotiation process and the steps it involves for an organization such as American Airlines. It also focuses on various agencies and the collaboration strategies involving employees and labor relations, especially on CEO of American Airline, Donald Carty. Effective communication is necessary among all departments of any organization, however without labor unions, employees will not see fairness in the wages, benefits, and working conditions.
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Workers and union leaders learned that while they were asked to accept $1.8 billion in annual cuts, American Airline had approved bonuses and pension payments for executives that would be protected even in bankruptcy. American Airlines had decided to give seven executives cash bonuses equal to up to twice their base salaries. The company also informed that concessions were necessary to keep an organization out of bankruptcy. The three unions, the Allied Pilots Association, Transport Workers Union, and the Association of Professional Flight Attendants reached agreement that all three must agree to the concessions to prevent Chapter 11 filing. However, after learning about bonuses and pensions the three union’s refused to sign off on concessions and began to organize new votes (Wong, E., …show more content…
Having the feel of protection, promotion, mutual interest, and collective bargaining, gives the employee the right to speak (DeCenzo, Robbins, Verhulst, 2013). Unions are necessary, whether management does everything fair for the employee. Companies such as American Airlines that might seem to offer the best benefits and wages, but nothing is as good as it seems and they will always will try to make money by putting them in their pockets and cutting corners. Therefore, unions should exist to negotiate wages and benefits, improve unhealthy working conditions, workplace safety and numerous other labor
Although each …show more content…
Workers and union leaders learned that while they were asked to accept $1.8 billion in annual cuts, American Airline had approved bonuses and pension payments for executives that would be protected even in bankruptcy. American Airlines had decided to give seven executives cash bonuses equal to up to twice their base salaries. The company also informed that concessions were necessary to keep an organization out of bankruptcy. The three unions, the Allied Pilots Association, Transport Workers Union, and the Association of Professional Flight Attendants reached agreement that all three must agree to the concessions to prevent Chapter 11 filing. However, after learning about bonuses and pensions the three union’s refused to sign off on concessions and began to organize new votes (Wong, E., …show more content…
Having the feel of protection, promotion, mutual interest, and collective bargaining, gives the employee the right to speak (DeCenzo, Robbins, Verhulst, 2013). Unions are necessary, whether management does everything fair for the employee. Companies such as American Airlines that might seem to offer the best benefits and wages, but nothing is as good as it seems and they will always will try to make money by putting them in their pockets and cutting corners. Therefore, unions should exist to negotiate wages and benefits, improve unhealthy working conditions, workplace safety and numerous other labor