Industrial Labor Relations Mgmt 4531.01 Spring 2011 Strength In Numbers Nurses and Labor Unions Justine Steele Strength in Numbers – Nurses and Labor Unions The mission is successful negotiation of fair wages‚ safe working conditions and exemplary patient care. Can the nation’s labor unions help nursing healthcare professionals meet these mission goals? Battles are currently being fought to preserve and reform the Nation’s healthcare system. Along with proposed changes to the affordability
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3. (a) As defined by Armstrong (2006) Reward Management is concerned with the formulation and implementation of strategies and policies‚ the purpose of which are to reward people fairly‚ equitably and consistently in accordance with their value to the organization and thus help the organization to achieve its strategic goals. Flippo (1961) define as the adequate and equitable remuneration of resources to organizational objectives. These two terms covers the same aspect of human resources which
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What is NLRC ? National Labor Relations Commission (Philippines) The National Labor Relations Commission is a commission organized by the Philippine government to resolve‚ investigate and settle disputes between employees and employers. The NLRC is a subsequent part of the Department of Labor and Employment where its policies and programs are coordinated. The commission dates back to the commonwealth period‚ when the contract labor law act was passed in the United States Congress on January 23
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I do not agree with the National Right to Work Committee’s opinion piece about unions being outdated‚ not beneficial and asking employees to drop their membership and to not pay union dues. In this essay‚ I explain why unions are vital in our times‚ why they benefit employees and why the NRTW wants employees to drop the union membership and stop paying dues. Why Unions are not outdated Unions are not outdated. We need unions to and to protect ourselves from the employers and advocate the employee
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In 1935‚ Congress passed the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA)‚ an act that protects the rights of employees and employers‚ promote collective bargaining‚ as well as ending practices by the labor and management that damaged overall welfare (National Labor Relations Act Violations‚ 2014). Congress has deemed some examples of violations that can occur by either the employer or by unions. An example of a violation is if an employee was intimidated by their employer who threatening them with losing
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MAN 3350: COMPARATIVE INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS GLOBALISATION Towards a Definition Globalisation has become a buzz-word for political‚ economic‚ sociological and environmental trends that are said to present world-wide challenges. We need to be careful about how the word is used – and why. Two accounts of globalisation that some of you will have seen before: “the process that reduces barriers between countries‚ thereby encouraging closer integration of economic‚
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was very beneficial to the middle class‚ and the decline of unions has hurt the middle class. The collective bargaining power of unions was able to secure higher wages and greater benefits for workers. Unions made originally lower class workers into middle class workers‚ and were largely responsible for the growth of the middle class. With decreasing unionization‚ the collective bargaining power of workers has decreased‚ and it is harder to prevent and change problems like wage stagnation (Perez)
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1. Right-to-work laws govern how employment is established‚ by stating that for a person to be hired‚ they do not have to join the union‚ nor pay dues the union. In contrast‚ employment-at-will dictates how‚ when‚ and for what reasons employment may be terminated. Employment-at-will generally says that employers and employees may terminate employment for whatever reason they so choose. 2. An agent is a person who acts on in lieu of‚ and for a principal. They typically conduct business transactions
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Relations Board (NLRB)‚ which serves as the prevailing body for union movement in the United States. Initially‚ the Wagner Act led to major union domination over companies. To achieve a better balance between unions and management‚ in 1947‚ Congress passed the Labor-Management Relations Act (also called the Taft-Hartley Act). Industrial scenario was extensively changed after 1930s. New federal laws allowed employees to negotiate their work structure‚ such as‚ wages‚ job hours and overtime pay. Workers
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Evaluation: Employee In our case‚ the Cathay Pacific Flight Attendants Union (FAU) did not satisfy with a new policy that required them to work at least 70 hours a month before they could swap shifts with colleagues and they thought this new policy had hurt their pay and lifestyle. Pay and benefits is one of the factors that affect job satisfaction of the employees and it is perhaps one of the most rewards employees would like to get in order to support their lives. So when the flight attendants
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