Collective unconscious

The organization involved was the Sociology club. They had a meeting about “Sexual Identity: A Sociological Perspective.” It dealt with an important speaker coming to the meeting and talking about their personal experiences. Her name was Jessica Lynn. She was transgender and is one of many people going around speaking about their personal life in order to make an awareness. Jessica Lynn makes a journey traveling to colleges and universities throughout the United States to inform students about…

The collective bargaining agreement effectively covers all employees within the business, but is being a supervisor considered equivalent to an employee under the CBA? The supervisor does have the right to act independently and autonomously (without asking upper management); specifically, to ensure that those under his watchful eye act to complete or improve business. Ultimately all employees answer to the management; however, when Vern Tucker is on shift, he is considered to be the immediate…

One union that, unlike the AFL-CIO, follows the concept of industrial unionism is the Industrial Workers of the World (IWW). It was founded in 1905 with the idea that representation of the individual worker is more important than representation per occupation. Their ideals promote the “One Big Union” concept and states that all workers should be under a single social class, therefore having no restrictions to membership particularly of unskilled workers. The Wobbly Shop model is one well known…

Beyond Instrumentalism: A Relational Approach to Negotiation The authors of Beyond Instrumentalism: A Relational Approach to Negotiation described three different approaches to negotiation, instrumentalism, altruism, and relational. The authors define instrumentalism as assuming negotiation behavior from a selfish motivation, or “what is better for me (or us)?” (Ingerson, 2015, Introduction pp. 3). Altruism is people essentially displaying representation to proceed with a longing to supply to…

During a union campaign, XYZ are permitted to engage in activities that will not interfere with an employee’s ability to make a free choice in a union election. If threats of reprisal, promises of benefits, or other actions would serve to coerce employees. All management should be extremely watchful about what they tell employees and representatives amid a union sorting out battle. Indeed, even one proclamation that goes too far can put everything else that was said in a more terrible light and…

Negotiations between an employer and employees to determine wages and conditions are referred as collective bargaining. Public employees are usually represented by unions or other labor groups in order to get fair agreements. Collective bargaining is endangered in some states and states such as North Carolina and Virginia even have ban on it. This brings up controversies. Some people believe it is a right to bargain for improvement in their working conditions and wages, some people think that…

Argumentative Essay: Should Public Service Workers Be Allowed to Strike? Think of what the world be like if there was no fireman, police officers, or teachers. These are just three examples of very important government workers. But what if these people were not able to assist you because they were on strike for their common interest? These workers are so depended on and without them our lives would be quite different. We could face many different types of danger and have no education. If they…

Traditionally, unions have been the voice of frustrated, undercompensated and neglected employees. They aim to protect the interests of employees. However, there are both advantages and disadvantages of influences unions have on compensation. Advantages: Employees who are part of a union experience the sense of job security, due to the union’s demands of higher wages, better working conditions, and limited working hours which in turn can increase productivity. Research shows that unions…

UNIOINIZED AND NON- UNIONIZED WORKPLACE UNIONIZED WORKPLACE In a union workplace, they bargains with the employee for the contract. The collective agreement is a contract and then they make sure that the contract must be carried out. The contracts can be defined as the legal documents between the person and the employer that finalize about the wages, benefits, and rules of the employment. PROS AND CONS OF UNIONIZED WORKPLACE 1. Unionized workplace offers higher wages. 2. They have better working…

The theory proposed by Commons that labor unions are becoming strong and influential as a result of expanding markets also applies in the context of Starbucks. According to Commons, labor unions are able to travel to different parts of the world and are no-longer confined within specific geographical regions, as they were initially. The emergence of effective channels of communication between people from different geographical regions enables unions to reach workers from different geographical…