Labor Relations and Collective Bargaining Agreements
Labor Relations and Collective Bargaining Agreements Strayer University BUS 310 Prof. Robert High March 15, 2009
Outline
Labor Relations and Collective Bargaining Agreements I. History of the American Labor Movement a. Labor and Employee Laws b. The Union II. Labor Relation Process c. Public-Sector Labor Relations III. What is Collective Bargaining? d. The Collective Bargaining Process e. How Collective Bargaining impacts Employees, Employers and Society IV. Union Movement Today
Labor Movement and Collective Bargaining Agreements Unionization of the American system, as it exists today, originated in the 1880s, but its legal framework was not shaped until the 1930s. However; the labor movement went back to the slave-labor system of which was a major obstacle to the formation of a labor movement in the South and in the nation as a whole. The populations that were not free but represented a large portion of the country’s workers stopped taking part in the emergence of a labor movement initiated by free labor in the North. It was impossible for slaves, who did not have any rights of any kind to share in the equal rights artisanal traditions of white northern workers, their main focus was freedom (Beik, 2005). The labor movement also went back to Colonial America when the British colonies in North America were, for the most part, extractive economies dependent on agriculture, fishing, harvesting of timber, mining, hunting, and other related occupations of that era that tapped in on the abundant resources of the New World. With these resources the colonies grew and were nurtured by a government whose economic policy emphasized the security and
Outline
Labor Relations and Collective Bargaining Agreements I. History of the American Labor Movement a. Labor and Employee Laws b. The Union II. Labor Relation Process c. Public-Sector Labor Relations III. What is Collective Bargaining? d. The Collective Bargaining Process e. How Collective Bargaining impacts Employees, Employers and Society IV. Union Movement Today
Labor Movement and Collective Bargaining Agreements Unionization of the American system, as it exists today, originated in the 1880s, but its legal framework was not shaped until the 1930s. However; the labor movement went back to the slave-labor system of which was a major obstacle to the formation of a labor movement in the South and in the nation as a whole. The populations that were not free but represented a large portion of the country’s workers stopped taking part in the emergence of a labor movement initiated by free labor in the North. It was impossible for slaves, who did not have any rights of any kind to share in the equal rights artisanal traditions of white northern workers, their main focus was freedom (Beik, 2005). The labor movement also went back to Colonial America when the British colonies in North America were, for the most part, extractive economies dependent on agriculture, fishing, harvesting of timber, mining, hunting, and other related occupations of that era that tapped in on the abundant resources of the New World. With these resources the colonies grew and were nurtured by a government whose economic policy emphasized the security and
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