Abstract
This paper provides a summary of the Illinois Policy Institute’s Bargaining for Better Schools: An Introduction to Collective Bargaining in Illinois Public Education. The policy paper discusses how teachers unions take advantage of the collective bargaining process in Illinois by working with school boards. The school board members are elected thanks in part to the campaign funds provided by the unions. When it comes time to negotiate teachers’ salaries and benefits, the boards are thus in the pockets of the unions, as they feel compelled to reciprocate by giving the unions what they want. Taxpayers are left in the dark about much of this because of the… Continue Reading...
Purpose of Interest Based Bargaining
The collective bargaining process is hardly ever dull or unexciting. Every now and then, there is significant tension as one of the participating parties or the other comes to the realization that it will fail to reach the expectations of its constituents. From time to time, there is significant eagerness and passion as resourceful options emanate with the potential to render mutual gains. In different occasions, apparently negligible or routine issues of contract terminology or working state of affairs have the potential to be fiery and tense on the basis of… Continue Reading...
The Rise of Collective Bargaining
According to Brody (1993), the collective agreement signed between unions and employers meant that the unions were no longer pushing for activism, but rather they were running the unions as a business. The unions were mostly concerned with ensuring that employees had job security and they worked hard to quell any disturbances that might arise. With employees working as expected and employers willing to pay the employees as agreed, there was a need for the unions to honor their contractual agreements. The contracts removed the unions from management… Continue Reading...
essential services funded, while saving in other areas if possible. Budgeting is always a balancing act.
14. Collective Bargaining. Job items covered by union contracts. Management's Rights.
Collective bargaining is not necessarily something to be feared, but it does often change the dynamics of how employment contracts work. Management is often in a tough predicament dealing with their budgets and the demands of collective bargaining. Again, full transparency can often help in instances of disagreement.
15. Explain job stress. Dealing with job related stress.
Job related stress exists in all industries, both for profit and not-for-profit. However, in any police organization, stress can be exceptionally high given… Continue Reading...
may not apply. The first exception to the employment-at-will doctrine is in cases where employees and employers have collective bargaining agreements. Employees who are members of the worker's unions have pre-negotiated collective bargaining agreements between the employer and the employee. These agreements stipulate the employee remunerations and increment procedure. Such agreements also outline conditions under which an employee may be discharged. The collective bargaining agreements further cover an appeal procedure through which an employee can appeal if he or she feels the termination of their employment contract was not justified under the provisions of the collective bargaining agreements (Chuff, 2014). Therefore, the employer cannot terminate an employee's employment… Continue Reading...
economic conditions. During economic recession, for example, firms may not readily slash wages due to the prevailing market regulations. Moreover, collective bargaining systems and other regulations that support the redistribution of economic rents from capital to labour may increase production costs and hinder investment, consequently reducing employment creation opportunities (Jha and Golder, 2008). In essence, labour market institutions and regulations tend to disrupt equilibrium in the labour market. They distort the market since resources are often not allocated at market clearing prices as generally dictated by supply and demand principles.
Another negative impact of labour market institutions is that they make it harder for outsiders to enter the labour market… Continue Reading...
are typically rather cheap
• Wages and benefits are guaranteed by the collective bargaining agreement so long as it is active
• More due process for employees who are terminated or punished and it is deemed that there is an injustice regarding any of those actions
• Brings together and unites the employees much more so than they normally would be in most situations
Potential Downsides of Unions
• Some employers/union situations requirement enrollment in the union to work there (i.e. a union shop)
• Majority rules when it comes to agreements about collective bargaining agreements and what the union fights for… Continue Reading...
regular basis and any overtime work done shall be compensated at a premium rate. (Fair Labor Association, 2016).
5. Freedom of Association and Collective Bargaining
The most considerate way of resolving any issues within the workplace is by having direct engagement and an open line of communication between the employees and management. Employees shall be able to amenably communicate and relay complaints with management as regards conditions at the workplace and management practices without fear of punishment, coercion...... Continue Reading...
the right of organization and collective bargaining when negotiating contracts) and equal pay to female workers for the same post and other nondiscrimination requirements. Pharmacare's Colberia manufacturing unit needs to incorporate the above rights.
Environmental Initiative
It appears that the "We Care About Your World" program of Pharmacare is simply an act of publicity. The firm appears not to be sincerely concerned with… Continue Reading...
