demands and for negotiating a new collective bargaining agreement: Item 1. Strategic Goals and Forecast of Factors Affecting the Firm’s Competitive Position Strategic Goals Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Incentive Materials cost reduction 2% 3% 4% 4% Labor cost reduction 4% 4% 5% 5% Current Ratio 2.25 2.5 2.75 2% Quick Ratio 1.0 1.2 1.5 3% Inventory turnover 5.0 5.5 5.75 3% Collection period 40 35 30 3% Forecast Item Current Year 1 Year 2 Year 3 Gross sales (no strikes) NA +3% +4% +5% Material
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About Labor Relations Labor relations can refer broadly to any dealings between management and workers about employment conditions. However, according to investorglossary.com “labor relations refer to dealings between management and a workforce that is already unionized, or has the potential to become unionized”. Labor relations are more crucial to industries such as autos and airlines where there are heavily unionized workforces. In 1935 the United States labor relations were greatly affected by
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Labor Laws and Unions HRM/531 23 Jan 2013 Dr. Michael A Barker University of Phoenix I have chosen to write about the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA). NASA has been around since the mid-1950s conducting space exploration and happens to be near and dear to my heart as my late father made his career at the NASA located at Edwards AFB in California. However, I shall focus on the NASA Headquarters Professional Association (NHPA) Local #9 which is located in Washington DC and
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(Berfield, 2012). UFCW helped create a group called OUR Walmart in 2011, along with Cindy Murray, an employee at Wal-Mart for 13 years. The group has around 4,000 members (Berfield, 2012). In October of last year, Wal-Mart experienced the first labor strike its history by its retail employees (Wilkie, 2012). The employees demonstrated at 28 stores in 12 cities throughout the United States. This strike came about because the employees wanted Wal-Mart management to stop retaliating against those
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Labor Laws and Unions Kaiser Permanente has been a well-known health care provider in the United States for over 65 years. Kaiser Permanente started with a simple 12 bed hospital in the middle of the Mojave Desert with a single surgeon. Kaiser Permanente has now grown to partnership as two organizations known today as Kaiser Foundation Health Plan and Hospitals and the Permanente Medical Groups. Kaiser Permanente upholds their mission to provide quality care for members and families, and to contribute
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we will look at an unfair labor practice (ULP) charge filed by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) in October of 2010. American Medical Response (AMR), an ambulance service in Connecticut, fired an employee for posting deprecating comments about her supervisor on Facebook. Other employees joined in the conversation and added comments of their own. The NLRB alleged that the employee's comments were protected "concerted activity" under the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) Section 7 of
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That Shaped Labor Unions For centuries, the divide between laborers and their controllers have come with a high price. From wealthy farmers to corporate presidents, their subordinates have had to work hard to achieve their personal goals and that of employers. At times, employees have been exploited by working outrageous hours under horrible conditions for a measly pay. Such abuse was absorbed by the needy and continued for years, until the government stepped in and demanded labors to be implemented
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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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1. Define and Discuss the Term “Collective Bargaining” Collective bargaining is the process of negotiations involving the representatives of the employer and employee for terms and conditions of employment that will apply to the employee. In the United States the negotiations that happen between concerning parties are written into legally binding contracts and usually last from one to five years (Budd). As a member of the United States Air Force for over 20-years, military members cannot unionize
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Labor & Politics (Spring 2014) | Michigan’s Right to Work | Looking at Taft-Hartley and Landrum-Griffin as legal precedent, what relevance do they have to the MI situation? How did the Governor use them, if at all? (No more than 400 words). | Edwina Howard-Agu2-27-2014 | Taft Hartley and Landrum-Griffin Acts as legal precedent was relevant to the decision made by Governor Rick Snyder and his legislative body that supported his platform to make Right to Work a reality in Michigan
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