Trade union

The Disappearing Union Founded in 1935, the International Union, United Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of America, better known as the United Automobile Workers (UAW) is an American labor union representing workers from the United States (including Puerto Rico) and Canada. The UAW is a diverse union with the majority of its members coming from the automotive industry. They currently have approximately 400,000 active members with another 580,000 retired members according…

most instances, laborers do not have the required authority. Instead, they delegate most of their powers to other institutions including labor unions. Besides, labor unions have the duty to represent needs and interests of its members to the relevant institutions. Labor unions also represent their members in formal negotiations with their employees. Labor unions also help in the formulation of collective barging agreements on behalf of their members. So far, scholars have identified notable…

The field of industrial relations is fraught with endless contestations between and among parties. Adewunmi (2008) observed that there is no other area of social interaction where the contradictions in a class society are as manifest as in the field of industrial relations. This is the locale where the two major players in the production process- labour and capital are engaged in an endless struggle to control the work process. Central to this conception is power and continuous struggle for…

changed early American ideologies but working and living conditions, urbanization, public health, life expectancy, and the emergence of a middle class. Americans resisted the development of new working processes with strikes and labor unions such as the National Trade Union, however the changing organization of work and growing number of wage earners challenged the idea of a republic of property owners. To put the industrial revolution in simplest terms, it was…

Article 1 This article looks at how work family friendly policies influence job satisfaction. Work family enrichment is defined as the extent to which family enriches performance in another function such as work. Work enrichment is improvement in an individual’s performance based on resources obtained from another situation. An especially important and influential work family friendly policy is job flexibility. Work flexibility is where both the management and employees needs are met by…

The Great Railroad Strike started on July 17, 1877 in Martinsburg, West Virginia. Employers cut pay for workers because of the debt the country was in from fighting in the Civil War. Many workers did not support this. Railroad companies stopped working and started striking. Workers stopped all trains and blocked any traffic from coming to the stations. Federal troops were called in to stop the strike, but they were unsuccessful. The strike spread to Baltimore, Maryland. This went from peaceful…

Unions have existed throughout United States history, specifically coming into the public view in the mid-nineteenth century. At first, they were viewed as dangerous and anti-American; as the fear of communism attracted panics such as the Red Scare, the thought of equality in the workplace seemed too extreme. When the Great Depression hit, more attention was shown to workers and their effect on the American economy. President Roosevelt called for increased spending to rev up the currency system;…

The radical Canadian workers formed the Workers' Unity League as a response to the influence if the encouraged of the Red International of Labor Unions. The formation of the Workers' Unity League facilitated the advancement of the objects of the unions in Canada, boasting of approximately 40,000 members at its peak. The primary objective of the union was to ‘Raise the Workers' Flag.’ Many authors and historians have attempted to cover this phenomenal era in their works, among them Stephen L.…

requirements. Apparently, the difficult situation of workers cannot stand on the Labor Law alone. In order to fight for humane and decent working conditions, the workers must seek help from an effective union that fight for the interest of workers. Workers should join and participate in the union and learn about the labor rights training. Here is a list of recommendations for Foxconn and its buyers including Apple, Nokia, HP, Dell, Sony, Sony Ericsson, and Motorola: Foxconn must honor its…

LABOUR RELATIONS Labour union represents the collective interests of the employers over wages, working hours, benefits, and working conditions. It is an organization formed to protect the rights and interests of its members (Investopedia, 2015). Labour union is an organization formed by the workers for the common interest of its members from their related fields of work. These organizations helped their workers on the issues of wages, working conditions, working hours, and other benefits (The…