Collective Bargaining DeVry University HRM330/Labor Relations Professor TITLE PAGE Introduction…………………………………………………………………………………………………………… What is Collective Bargaining....................................................................................................................... History of Collective Bargaining…………………………………………………………………………………….. Importance of Collective Bargaining……………………………………………………………………………….. a. Importance to Employee b. Importance to Employer The
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Running Head: Harassment Harassment in the Work Place Celina Delgado English 306 Park University ABSTRACT Sexual Harassment in the workplace can be very critical for an employer. Not only can it ruin the company’s reputation but also it can be left in debt due to lawsuits for cases left unattended. The employer must open their eyes that sexual harassment in fact can happen in any workplace
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Labor Laws and Unions Sonny Williams HRM/531 9/17/2012 Dennis Cashman Abstract An organization can be unionized or not, but with not being unionized can cause some major problems, because the organization can have its own agenda to which it doesn’t want to be unionized or it could be that it wants to maintain fair law practices while being completely free of any collective bargaining agreement (CBA). In either case there are benefits and disadvantages
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Labor Laws and Unions HRM/531 April 2, 2012 Susan Frear Labor Laws and Unions The United Postal Service (UPS) is a unionized company. A brief background will be given as well as legal issues and obstacles they may encounter, how the federal, state, and local laws could be breached because of the legal issues and why, and recommendations how to mitigate the possible litigation. As a part of the analysis the subsequent questions will be answered what are the benefits of UPS joining
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Case 15-1: The Union’s Demand for Recognition and Bargaining Rights In case study 15-1 a union representative made claims against a company of unfair labor practices. The Union also claimed that this was in violation of Section 8(a)(1) of the LMRA. The Union organizer claimed that the company had interrogated the employees to decipher if a union was being established in the company. Melton, the supervisor of the employees at the time of these discrepancies, did engage in questioning three employees
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Favorable public-sector labor laws appear to be a significant factor encouraging growth in public-sector labor relations. 3. A major advantage of the Civil Service Reform Act (CSRA) was that it established the framework for labor relations in the federal government by legislation, instead of by Executive Order. 4. If a governmental unit privatizes a government service to a private business, the private employer is likely to be covered under the Labor Management Relations Act. 5. If a subject
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Article On May 19, 2011, the NLRB had filed a complaint against Hispanics United of Buffalo, Inc. The NLRB ruled that the agency violated the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) when it terminated five employees for “venting” after hours on Facebook about their jobs. The post included one employee’s complaint that a coworker didn’t feel she was working hard enough and another employee’s commiseration that she didn’t “have a life”. The NLRB stated that ““Employees have a protected right to discuss
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Chapter 01 Contemporary Labor Relations: Objectives, Practices, and Challenges Answer Key True / False Questions 1. (p. 4) Fundamentally, a labor union is a group of workers who join together to influence the nature of their employment. TRUE Difficulty: Easy 2. (p. 4) The widening gap between the richest and poorest individuals in the U.S. is in part due to the weakened position of labor unions. TRUE Difficulty: Easy 3. (p. 5) When an employer uses an employee
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chapter 1 Craig’s industrial relations system model - we see that the industrial relations actors take elements from the external environment and convert these inputs into outputs through a series of conversion mechanism. These outputs then flow back into the environment through a feedback loop * feedback loop- the mechanism by which outputs of the industrial relations system flow back to the external environment INPUTS PROCESSES OUTPUTS System Approach Model (Craig) Different from Dunlop
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Labor Relations Name University of Phoenix Human Resources Management 431 Instructor January 23, 2011 Abstract Research will offer information that research provides about unions and labor relations and the effect on organizations. Most employees in the workforce are acting as independents. What this means is that the employee will negotiate all of the work conditions. Negotiations of how much the employer pays, flexible hours, and benefits received are an independent labor negotiates
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