National Labor Relations Board

receive equal pay. During World War 1 and 2 the War Labor Board ruled that women working jobs usually performed by men must be paid equally to what men were paid. Both wars ended before the rule could be strictly enforced. The National Recovery Act of 1935 required women in the federal workforce to receive 25% less pay than their male counterparts. In 1944, Rep. Winifred Stanley proposed the first bill that would amend the National Labor Relations Act and put an end gender wage discrimination.…

Labor unions have been around for centuries. They were put in place to help union members to ensure their wages and working conditions were up to par. Unions were formed so workers can have a voice to fight against employers due to unfair labor practices. Every employee wants to feel they are a valuable employee and feel they are being appreciated. In this paper, I will discuss how a large, fast growing non-union manufacturing organization that has multiple locations in the United States and…

3. Describe the process of establishing and decertifying a collective bargaining unit in the workplace. The process of establishing a collective bargaining unit in the workplace consists of certain steps that should be followed; the organizing time line. The first step in this sequence is initiating; there are three possible initiators: one or more employees, a union, or an employer. Budd states that an employer initiated drive might be odd, but in the “1960s and 1970s some agricultural…

Labor Laws, Unionization, and the Workplace The United States ' airline industry has a high unionization rate. The unionization rate is higher compared to other industries in the country. The relationship between the industry and the unions are driven by the labor laws which include the National Labor Relations Act. Employees have rights to belong to unions and participate in union activities without fear of retaliation by the employer. The unions in the industry have great power and play a…

3 LABOR RELATION (1) Identify and define Labor relation The interactions between management and unionized employees unions are organizations that represent employees in collective bargaining with employers a source of recruitment not all organizations include labor relations as part of their HR systems. Enacted in 1935, the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) applies to private employers. • Its preamble set forth the policy of the United States to eliminate or lessen the causes of certain…

Verizon’s Collective Bargaining Dispute Lets talk about what collective bargaining is which “ consists of negotiations between an employer and a group of employees so as to determine the conditions of employment. The result of collective bargaining procedures is a collective agreement (collective bargaining)”. The unfair treatment of Verizon employees caused 45,00 workers to go on strike. A, majority of the people that are participating in the strike are part of the landline division. In the…

public employees. The right itself first applied to the private sector employees only; however, the federal government and many states had adopted for public employees with the similar rights via legislation, court decision, and/or rulings of the state boards. These rights was established in 1975 by the Supreme Court based on the U.S. Supreme Court decision of the NLRB v. Weingarten, Inc. case. Basically, Weingarten rights guarantee an employee the right to request for Union representation…

The Federal Sector Labor-Management Relations Statute of 1978 is law that gave public workers the right to organize into union to better work conditions it similar to the NLRA in some cases. According to FLRA government website states, “Each employee shall have the right to form, join, or assist any labor organization, or to refrain from any such activity, freely and without fear of penalty or reprisal, and each employee shall be protected in the exercise of such right. Except as otherwise…

income earners in the US earned 10% of the pre-tax wages (Noah, 2012) but that number has increased to 20% by 2013 (Piketty, 2014). Another worry is that this consolidation of wealth that we have seen in recent years may lead to monopolization of labor, which may lead to less consumer freedoms, general lack of competition, and other market manipulations which were discussed in class (Lynn and Longman 2010). While income disparity is a major factor in the changing economic climate in the United…

1. In the above case, Mary Smith is suing Lending Store, Inc. for being fired without any form of explanation. Mary Smith can argue that she has been decimated and the company has violated the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972. Under the Equal Employment Opportunity Act of 1972, “the right of all employees and job applicants (1) to be treated without discrimination and (2) to be able to sue employees if they are discriminated against” Cheeseman, 2007, p. 428). Mary Smith can argue that…