Paper Topic:

LABOR RELATIONS

Running Head : Labor Relations

LABOR RELATIONS ABSTRACT

Broadly speaking , labor relations may refer to any transaction between employer and employees with regards to certain employment conditions More frequently , however , labor relations refer to communication between management and a workforce that has been previously unionized , or has the probability to become unionized (Investor Glossary

Whereas , as labor union is an alliance of employees recognized by law who have organized themselves to communally protect their rights in the workplace and thereby influence their working conditions . Subsequently the rights and privileges of

the workers , have , including the wages they will receive , been enclosed in a written agreement called a union contract . This contract is an agreement between management and labor force that will be effective for an agreed period of time , after which a new contract will have to be negotiated (AFL-CIO

SECTION I

THE EVOLUTION OF UNIONS AND LABOR LAW

LABOR UNION HISTORY

Unions or guilds ' were first formed in Europe during the Middle Ages by the weavers , goldsmiths , fishermen , bakers , and glove makers whereas , labor unions in America emerged during the Colonial Era formed by craftsmen . These were followed by significant strikes namely : Boston Tea Party in 1773 , the New York Printers Union strike in 1796 carpenters in Philadelphia in 1797 and the cordwainers in 1799 (Devine 2008

Rash of unions happened in the nineteenth century with the formation of the National Labor Union (NLU ) in 1866 followed by the Knights of Labor In 1869 and the American Federation of Labor (AFL ) in 1886 (Devine 2008 Carey , 2004 . An enormous escalation in union membership occurred between 1915 and 1920 before the Congress of Industrial Organizations (CIO ) was born in 1935 after which the great strike ' took place in 1954 when peasants and workers of Honduras fought against the US colonialists

Laws were created to diminish the numbers of strikes and thus caused a massive decline in union organizing - the 1990 Sherman Antitrust Laws the 1914 Clayton Act , the 1926 Railway Labor Act (RLA , the 1931 Davis-Bacon Act , the 1932 Norris-LaGuardia Act , the 1933 National [Industrial] Recovery Act (NRA , the 1935 HYPERLINK "http /www .nlrb .gov /about_us /overview /national_labor_relations_act .aspx " \o "CiteNet " National Labor Relations Act (NLRA , the 1936 Anti-Strikebreaker Law or Byrnes Act , the 1936 Walsh-Healy Act , the 1938 Fair Labor Standards Act , the 1947 Labor-Management Relations Act Taft-Hartley Act or Landrum-Griffin Act and the 1959 Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (LMRDA (Union .org

Labor Unions

Introduction

Due to the involvement of a wide range of clinical skills , the industry of health care delivery requires a labor-intensive process in line with this , general and specialty hospitals personnel cost characteristically correspond to somewhat more than half of operating returns . It has always been a challenge to employ and retain the perfect ratio of qualified personnel and has become even more complicated in recent years . Because of this skilled labor shortage , financial incentives for employees are almost , if not at all , feasible . In a mature labor force with competitive dynamics , more and more...

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