Unfair Labor Practice for Company's Position Case Analysis True or False: "The comment "We know about your little chat" would help management in a Wright Line test." True or False: "If Jack's production numbers were higher than most, this data wou Continue Reading...
org 2010). Such direct contact is definitely preferable to the distribution of anti-union literature; the ability an willingness to actually discuss issues with employees rather than simply providing them with printed statements that cannot be engage Continue Reading...
Women at Work WORKING WOMEN AND INDUSTRILIAZATION Prior to industrialization, most women were working as domestic servants in homes of wealthy people. Even when industrialization helped few women gain better jobs at sales and clerical positions, mo Continue Reading...
Tenure refers to a legally secure position, an “indefinite appointment” at an institute of higher learning (AAUP, 2019, p. 1). Of course, extenuating circumstances may enable the educational institution to sever the contract and terminate Continue Reading...
Labor unions are employee organizations established for safeguarding and promoting member interests. In most instances, union advocacy entails collective bargaining that aims to improve personnel working conditions, hours, benefits, and wages (Full B Continue Reading...
Since smaller class size has been shown to positively affect student learning, at least in the early grades, one might also infer that this affects teachers' work positively. Further, researchers have found a positive relationship between collective Continue Reading...
Labor History1. Every immigrant group has its own unique labor history. Describe the labor history of your immigrant group.The United States is a country with a long history of immigration, and each immigrant group has its own unique labor history. F Continue Reading...
Explain how unions, human resources management personnel, and government interventions (such as laws and regulations) serve to address worker rights and worker safety. Labor unions, human resources management personnel, and government interventions s Continue Reading...
labor market in Harlan County, Texas, was monopolistic in the sense that Duke Power had a significant amount of wage-setting power at the time that Harlan County, USA was filmed. The company and its subsidiary, the Eastover Mining Company, were one Continue Reading...
While cases such as that of Kukdong graphically illustrate the importance of CSR and codes of conduct, anti-sweatshop activists continue to display considerable hesitation and equivocation as they wrestle with implementing CSR in China. In the word Continue Reading...
Conflict, Debate or Struggle in the Contemporary U.S. Labor Movement The work of Rutkowski and Dirkin (2010) reports that a kosher food company in Williamsburg is "locked in a battle with former workers who charge they were stiffed out of overtime Continue Reading...
labor policies of the former Soviet Union and how they contributed to the downfall of the Soviet Union. The writer explores the labor policies that were in force at the time and explains their contribution to the eventual downfall. There were ten so Continue Reading...
Labor Agreements (FAR Part 22.5): Applicable laws There are three major labor laws which affect government construction projects. The Davis Bacon Act stipulates a specific wage floor for all workers, namely that "no laborer or mechanic employed dir Continue Reading...
decision will need to be made about the future of each one. Each decision will be supported with an analysis of the situation using the relevant legal framework. In general, companies are allowed to terminate employees if the termination is part of Continue Reading...
Employment-at-will doctrine is a law that requires both the employer and the employee to either enter into a contract of employment willfully or terminate such a contract willfully. Under this law, an employer may employ an employee if the employer i Continue Reading...
strikes are an important part of the collective bargaining process. This does not mean that a strike has to happen with every collective bargaining agreement, but the threat of a strike does create a certain motivation for management to negotiate. T Continue Reading...
Abstract This paper looks at the concepts of the labor market, wage growth and income inequality in the U.S. and discusses them in terms of inflation (caused by the injection of $4 trillion worth of liquidity into the financial markets by the Federal Continue Reading...
Union NegotiationsOver the last two decades, union negotiations at Westfield State University (WSU) have covered a range of topics, engaging with various concepts relevant to labor relations and union activities. These negotiations have been characte Continue Reading...
Industrialization: Benefits and Costs to American SocietyIndustrialization ushered in an age of unbridled capitalism that had never been seen before in American society. It also launched a new era of communication, travel, investment opportunities, l Continue Reading...
Labor Ethics Labor and Ethics The concept of ethics in both business and labor is one rife with contradiction. Especially today, where the public has come also to expect a degree of dishonesty, corruption and exploitation at the hands of corporate Continue Reading...
Union Organizing Issues What are the differences from the employer's viewpoint, in operating a union-free environment vs. A unionized environment? Eric Dontigney, writing in the Houston Chronicle for Demand Media, explains that while unions do prov Continue Reading...
Labor and Union Studies Critically examine the options available to workers and trade unions for building more effective outcomes Critical Examination of Options for Effective Outcomes Labor and Union Studies Critical Examination of Options for E Continue Reading...
Labor Market, Unemployment Defining and classifying Unemployment There is a level of unemployment in any economy, which is not automatically a bad thing, as most people would think. The presence of a level of unemployment, which usually is presente Continue Reading...
Labor Relations & Globalization Argue for or against the use of the "school voucher program." Which do you believe is right? Explain your answer. Both the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) identi Continue Reading...
LABOR UNIONS IN THE U.S.: Evaluation of Social Theory as Applied to the Concept of Organized Labor CHAPTER IN BRIEF INTRODUCTION history of labor unions, their composition and development in the U.S. over time, discussion of the "building blocks" of Continue Reading...
Labor Union Negotiations The Zinnia Hotel Labor negotiations for the labor pool at The Zinnia Hotel should focus on various factors that are present in the current situation. Of these factors, the most important one is the fact that there have been Continue Reading...
If the foundations of the NLRA are to be supported, the illegal worker will need to be provided with the complete display of NLRA solutions. With that said, the tension still remains. Key Issues Statistics do show that illegal aliens are accountin Continue Reading...
Greek and French Labor Laws French trade unions are the weakest in terms of membership in the entire Europe. Generally trade unions are divided confederations; there is rivalry between the confederations since they compete for the same membership (L Continue Reading...
Globalization Union Decline Trade unions are the most important constituent of the system of current industrial relations in any country. Every trade union has a particular set of objectives or milestones to reach. It is a fact that modifications in Continue Reading...
Public vs. Private Sector Unions Public and Private Sector Unions Collective bargaining in public sector is a recent phenomenon that became common in 1960 and started gaining momentum at the time when unionism in private sector was slowly declining Continue Reading...
After World War I, the Soviets evolved their own labor relations model, in which the employees were motivated and encouraged by the unions to work hard for increasing the production activities, the union introduced and promoted industrial discipline Continue Reading...
Suppose you are the HR manager of a small city. You have heard that the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Workers is likely to start an organizing drive among city employees. Find as much information about this union as you can. Wh Continue Reading...
Collective bargaining is made up of negotiations between an employer and a group of workers that decide the conditions of employment. Frequently workers are represented in the bargaining by a union or other labor association. The outcome of collecti Continue Reading...
" (Rouillard, 1987) There was a desire to "humanize the economy" based on the value of work being "more important than capital since the individual had to take priority over the accumulation of goods." (Rouillard, 1987) VIII. LIBERAL HUMANISM & Continue Reading...
Senior Management MEMO to Senior Management: What are the differences in operating a union-free workplace vs. A unionized workplace? Here is some background on the issue. A view that many observers express is that unions tend to raise "non-union Continue Reading...
