Twelve

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Chapter Twelve
Dealing with Employee- Management Issues and
Relationships
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Employed Workers In Unions
Source U. S. News World Report, 3/5/01
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Union Membership by Industry (2000)
Source Bureau of Labor Statistics
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Why Employees Join Unions
Why Employees Dont Join Unions

• Pro-union attitudes
• Poor management/ employee relations
• Negative organizational climate
• Poor work conditions
• Unions reputation
• Job security

• Anti-union attitude
• Good management/ labor relations
• Positive organizational climate
• Good work conditions
• Unions reputation
• Peer pressure

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History of Labor Unions

• Craft Unions
• Knights of Labor
• AFL
• CIO

• Industrial Unions
• AFL/CIO
• National Labor Relations Act, 1935 (Wagner Act)

skilled specialists
unskilled and semi-skilled, by manufacturing
sector
1869, all working people
1955, merger
1886, craft unions
1935, industrial unions
employee rights
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Major Legislation

• Norris-La Guardia Act, 1932
• NLRA (Wagner Act), 1935
• Fair Labor Standards Act, 1938
• Taft-Hartley Act, 1947
• Landrum-Griffin Act, 1959

pro-union, outlawed injunctions, yellow-dog
contracts
pro-union, right to join unions, collective
bargaining
minimum wage (25) and maximum hours
Labor-Management Relations Act
permitted right-to-work laws, no closed shops
Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act
individual rights of union members
(anti-corruption)
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Objectives of Organized Labor

• 1970s- Pay/Benefits
• 1980s- Job Security Union Recognition
• 1990s- Job Security/ Global Competition

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Organized Labor Issues

• Right-To-Work Laws Open Shop

opportunity to join or not join a union if
available
Right-To-Work States 21

• Union Security Clauses

employees who benefit from union must join or pay
dues to the union
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Union Agreements

• Closed Shop (illegal)
• Union Shop (most)
• Agency Shop (small )
• Open Shop (few)

Employers could only hire current union members
Joining the union is a condition of keeping job
Employees need not join a union, but must pay
dues
Union membership is voluntary
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Labor Issues

• Collective Bargaining
• Certification
• Decertification

Labor and management form an agreement for
workers
Process of getting union recognized by NLRB
workers take away a unions right to represent
them
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Resolving Disputes
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Mediation/Arbitration

• Bargaining Zone
• Mediation/Mediator- suggestions
• Arbitration- binding decision

range of option between initial and final offers
third party who encourages continued negotiations
binding decision of a third party
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Factors That Affect theCollective Bargaining
Process
Public Sentiment
Labor Law
State of Economy
Union Rep.
Mgmt.Rep.
Bargaining Topic
Goals of Bargaining Parties
Issues Being Discussed
Precedents in Bargaining
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Union Tactics

• Strike
• Sickouts
• Boycott
• Primary
• Secondary

On Strike
public is urged not to buy products of the firm
businesses are urged not to do business with the
firm
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Management Tactics

• Yellow-Dog Contracts- outlawed
• Lockouts
• Injunction
• Strikebreakers

employees agree not to join a union when hired
management temporarily closes business (no pay)
court ordered return to work
workers hired to work during a strike
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Controversial Employee-Management Issues

• Executive Compensation
• Comparable Worth
• Sexual Harrassment
• Child Care

• Elder Care
• Aids/Drug Testing, Violence in Workplace
• Employee Stock Ownership Plans(ESOPs)

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CEO Pay as Multiple of Average Worker Pay
Source Executive Excess 2000, Institute for
Policy Studies United for a Fair Economy
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Womens Earnings as of Mens by Age
Source Business and Professional Women/USA
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Types of Sexual Harassment

• Gender Harassment
• Seductive Behavior
• Sexual Bribery
• Sexual Coercion
• Sexual Imposition

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Percentage of Workers Responsible for An Aging
Relative
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Major Types of Workplace Violence
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Chapter 12 Terms