Human Resource Management
By Laura Portolese Dias
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Chapter 12
Working with Labor Unions
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Learning Objectives
1. Be able to discuss the history of labor unions.
2. Explain some of the reasons for a decline in
union membership over the past sixty years.
3. Be able to explain the process of unionization
and laws that relate to unionization.
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The Nature of Unions
• Unions
– Definition
– Union membership
– Why do people join unions?
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The Nature of Unions
• History of Unions
– NLU
• Goal was an 8-hour workday
– The Knights of Labor
• Membership increased when NLU dissolved
• Decrease in membership with unsuccessful strikes
– AFL
• For people wanting a change from Knights of Labor
• Still in existence today
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The Nature of Unions
• History of Unions
– CIO
• Formed in 1930s
• Merged with AFL in 1955
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The Nature of Unions
• Main unions today
– AFL-CIO
• Includes Airline Pilots Association, Federation of
Professional Athletes
– CTW
• Includes Teamsters, United Farm Workers
– Independent unions
• Includes Directors Guild of America, Fraternal
Order of Police
• Goals of national unions
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The Nature of Unions
• Union Challenges
– Membership
– Globalization
– Company focus on nonunion status
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The Nature of Unions
• Union Laws
– Railway Labor Act
– Norris-LaGuardia Act
– Wagner Act
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The Nature of Unions
• Union Laws
– National Labor Relations Board
– Taft-Hartley Act
– Landrum Griffin Act
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The Nature of Unions
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The Nature of Unions
• Strategies used to avoid unionization
– Three main phases of unionization
– Can use different strategies at each phase
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Learning Objectives
1. Be able to describe the process of collective
bargaining.
2. Understand the types of bargaining issues
and the rights of management.
3. Discuss some strategies when working with
unions.
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Collective Bargaining
• Management Rights in a Collective Bargaining
Agreement
• Checkoff provisions
• Union Shop vs. Agency Shop
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Collective Bargaining
• Examples of bargaining topics
– Mandatory topics
– Permissive topics
– Illegal topics
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Collective Bargaining
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Collective Bargaining
• Bargaining Impasse results
– Economic strike
– Unfair labor practices strike
– Lockout
– Slowdown
– Sickout or walkout
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Learning Objective
1. Be able to explain how to manage the
grievance process.
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Administration of the
Collective Bargaining Agreement
• Collective Bargaining Agreement is ruling
document for all company/employee business
• Grievance procedures definition
• Examples of grievances
• Types of grievances
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Administration of the
Collective Bargaining Agreement
• Steps in a Grievance process
– Informal conversation
– Union initiates grievance process
– Union/management discuss
– Complaint may be brought to grievance
committee
– Formalized response from both parties
– If no agreement, national union officer
– Mediation
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