Collective Bargaining

Collective Bargaining

Taft-Hartley Labor Act is also known as the Labor-Management Relations Act . The people behind this are Senator Robert Alphonso Taft and Representative Fred Allan Hartley . They sponsored its passage in the Congress in 1947 . The Taft-Harley Act is somewhat the correction of the much earlier Act which is the Norris-LaGuardia of 1932 . The main provisions of this Act is to intervene with the labor disputes through the newly develop National Labor Relations Board . It also serves as a government mediations service wherein there is a need for notice in

every party whenever there is the termination of a collective-bargaining agreement . Through this Act , any strike that is perceived a threat to national security and safety is being controlled by the government because of the 80-day ban on it (strike . There is also a prohibition of any jurisdictional strikes and secondary boycotts . The act also requires that any union should pass financial reports and affidavits to the U .S Department of Labor in support to the fact that the officers of any union are not Communists . This is also a requirement for the unions should they want to use the facilities of National Labor Relations Board . Through this act , the unions are also prohibited from any political campaigns

The National Labor Relations Board is created in 1935 through Wagner Act , and was later modified by the Taft-Hartley Act . It is composed of three important parts - the board which is composed of five members general counsel , and regional offices . They are appointed by the President wherein the five members of the board will hold the position for five years . It has no independent power thus when giving an they must ask first the Court of Appeals for any enforcement . It is not also allowed that they will act on their proposition it lies on the employers , individuals , and unions . The main functions of NLRB are (1 through secret balloting , they determine whether the employees of any given company want to be represented by a union . If so , then they will determine which union will be chosen when it comes to communicating with the employers (2 ) they regulate and control any acts which are against the law or labor practices that are unjust may it be coming from the unions , and /or employers . Though the NLRB is subjected on limited power , it was believed that they have contributed a lot in the labor practices in America

The right to work laws has a lot to do with the labor unions . Because of those laws , there is clear cut on what the employees are going through . For example is that an individual has his or her own choice as to whether he or she will be joining a labor union or not . Because of that law , people or employees are free from anything that is coercive of them . They all have the right choose whether they will join into any collective bargaining or not . But its repercussions to labor unions are...