...The Effects of a Union R. Butler HRM 531 November 12, 2012 Melany Felton The Effects of a Union California Correctional Peace Officers Association (CCPOA) represents correctional officers of the Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation along with correctional officers of the California Youth Authority. Supervisors of both departments have the right to join CCPOA, for representation, under what is called the “Excluded Employees” Representation Act (ccpoa.org). They are dedicated to the profession, elected by membership were each member is a correctional officer who gives them an understanding of correctional issues. Their purpose is to promote harmonious relations between the state of California and its employees, to establish peaceful procedure resolutions (Agreement covering bargaining unit 6 corrections April 1, 2011 through July 2, 2013). How the union effects the California department of corrections and rehabilitation, the benefits of the union to the employees. The organization’s benefits of joining a union are to be gent of social change between the employer and the employees of the organization. It is a written agreement to ensure managers treat employees with respect and that organizations treat them not an asset. In order for an organization to accommodate its employee’s the employer must be able to achieve long- term success. It also assists the organization with the federal regulations and complex state laws that may be violated by managers. A union...
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...The Effects of Labor Unions Article Summary The article I have chosen for the case study is titled “California’s Oranges are Rotting on the Docks”. This article focuses on the efforts of the International Longshore Workers Union to reach an agreement with the Pacific Maritime Association. Negotiations between the two organizations have been proceeding for several months now, since July 2014. The two groups are attempting to iron out details for about 13,500 port workers to increase salaries, improve healthcare, and pension plans. These 13,500 workers span across the pacific coast, covering about 29 ports which serve as primary shipping ports between the United States and Asia. 70% of the United States’ imports and exports with Asia are serviced using the affected ports. The article notes that since negotiations begin, workers have gone on strike, cutting down the amount of hours worked each week. This cut back in labor has caused delays at the ports reducing the amount of goods being imported and exported. Produce has been rotting in shipping containers, meat is being held in freezers, and auto makers are not receiving needed parts. This strike has trickled down, affecting a number of different industries, which have all had to reduce production. Some firms have begun to seek alternative shipping methods, but none are as cost effective as using the Maersk ships carrying 18,000 shipping containers. (www.cnn.money.com) This article focused on a number of concepts...
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...There is little doubt that labor unions in the United States originated in response to poor wages and unfair labor practices of large corporations. However, some people today feel unions have outlived their usefulness as they are more interested in maintaining their own organizational structure and less interested in ensuring their constituents receive fair wages for their efforts and job security. Opponent of this perspective contend unions are still viable and point to the fact that unionized positions are on the average paid 21.8% more than non-unionized positions (SEIU). Union supporters argue that without the protections offered by union membership, management would revert to abusive practices. A unionized workforce that has been readily observed over an extended period of time is the American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees (AFSCME). The dominant union for state workers in Pennsylvania representing 45,000 employees (AP), AFSCME represents eligible administrative, fiscal, technical services, maintenance, engineering and scientific personnel. Negotiating with AFSCME has some distinct advantages for the government. Bargaining with the union representatives ensures the mediators from both sides are well versed on the issues and understand the contracting process. Without the union, the government could be reduced to negotiating with individual employees, creating an inordinately cumbersome process that would not produce satisfactory results for...
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...Prepared by: Lisa Fell The Effect of the “Right to Work” Law on Unions and Union Workers in the United States Capstone Co-ordinator: Ted Seath Faculty Advisor: Gary Gannon Table of Contents CHAPTER I 1 DEFINITION OF THE PROBLEM 1 Background Statement 1 Problem Statement 2 Purpose Statement 3 Limitations of Study 3 Reliability 4 Availability 4 Timeliness 4 Precision Error 4 Researcher Prejudice 5 CHAPTER II 5 LITERATURE REVIEW 5 Selected Review of Literature 5 The Effect of Right-to-Work Laws on Workers and Wages 5 Right-to-Work Laws are Beneficial to Unions and Union Workers 10 Right-to-Work Laws Negatively Affect Unions and Union Workers 16 Free-Riders are the Cause of Union Demise 23 Free-Riders Make Unions More Accountable 26 Results Summary 28 Right-to-Work Laws Weaken Labor Unions 28 Workers Gain Fewer Benefits from Economic Growth under Right-to-Work Laws 28 The Broader Economic Effects of Right-to-Work Laws are Difficult to Separate 29 CHAPTER III 29 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS 29 Conclusions 29 Recommendations 30 WORKS CITED 32 CHAPTER I DEFINITION OF THE PROBLEM Background Statement The typical factory worker in the late nineteenth century worked ten hours a day, six days a week. Unskilled workers were paid between $1.00 and $1.50 per day. Children were a significant part of the labour force after the Civil War. Workplace accidents were common, and the idea of compensating workers...
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...Union College Sta. Cruz, Laguna Experimental Psychology “Cheating and its effects on the Moral Sensibility” Of Criminology and Education Students In Union College Submitted by: Submitted to: Carable, Cris Madel Mrs. Bituin Gracia Z. Almonte Blanca, Jan Marinie Padua, Carla May Statements of the Problem: This study aimed to compare the effects of cheating on the moral sensibility of criminology and education students in Union College. Introduction: Moral Sensibility as define refers to our response towards what is right or wrong. Because man is believed—by nature is good but morally weak, he endures all the temptations through his life. Cheating is considered as one of those as one of those which lower the moral sensibility of students, it is also a serious problem that has negative educational, social, and psychological effects. Educationally, cheating is contrary to the spirit if higher education, especially in developing and promoting moral values and attitudes. Socially, cheating is unacceptable behavior to get something with no right. Cheating is also not only affects students who cheated but also other students as it forces them to live in an unfair system. The good thing is that by learning the consequences of this action, students learn to value fairness and honesty even more. Psychologically, cheating may cause an instability in a student’s values, potentially resulting in serious psychological problems, such as feelings of being guilty and with shame but...
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...Discriminatory liberalization Customs Union Economics of European Integration Lecture 1: Economics of preferential liberalization Thomas Blondiau (Center for Economic Studies, KU Leuven) Louvain Institute for Ireland in Europe, January 2012 Thomas Blondiau (Center for Economic Studies, KU Leuven) Preferential liberalization Discriminatory liberalization Customs Union Introduction Graphical analysis Welfare Introduction Questions that we will answer in this section Why was/is the EU so successful? Thomas Blondiau (Center for Economic Studies, KU Leuven) Preferential liberalization Discriminatory liberalization Customs Union Introduction Graphical analysis Welfare Introduction Questions that we will answer in this section Why was/is the EU so successful? What economic forces are driving the spread of European integration? Thomas Blondiau (Center for Economic Studies, KU Leuven) Preferential liberalization Discriminatory liberalization Customs Union Introduction Graphical analysis Welfare Introduction Questions that we will answer in this section Why was/is the EU so successful? What economic forces are driving the spread of European integration? We use a simplifying (NICNIR) economic framework Thomas Blondiau (Center for Economic Studies, KU Leuven) Preferential liberalization Discriminatory liberalization Customs Union Introduction Graphical analysis Welfare Introduction Questions...
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...Teacher Salaries, State Collective Bargaining Laws, and Union Coverage Barry T. Hirsch, Georgia State University David A. Macpherson, Trinity University John V. Winters, University of Cincinnati Initial draft, June 2010 Current draft, December 2012 Abstract What are the causal effects of collective bargaining (CB) on teacher salaries? This seemingly simple question is difficult to answer because (a) national data measuring school district salaries and collective bargaining is limited in scope, while individual teacher data from the CPS mismeasure CB coverage; (b) union wage effects depend not only on coverage but also on an array of CB law provisions difficult to quantify; (c) union coverage and state CB laws are endogenous since each has been influenced by union sentiment among workers and voters; and (d) OLS estimates of the wage effect of CB coverage and laws may be biased by measurement error and endogeneity. We attempt to address these issues using measures of historical labor sentiment, by creating indices of CB law strength, and by using alternative national data sets containing information on teacher salaries and coverage. As in prior studies, we find modest union salary effects for teachers using standard methods, albeit smaller than found for the private sector. A union benefits premium estimated from SASS substantially exceeds the salary premium. Estimates of CB law and coverage effects using IV (with historical data measuring labor sentiment...
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...EU coursework 14th January 2013 ‘The courts direct effect decisions transformed the whole nature of the European Union from International organization to something like a federal union.’ (Shapiro) Discuss… The Phrase international organisation can be commonly defined as entities established by formal political agreements between their members that have the status of international treaties; their existence is recognised by law in their member countries; they are not treated as resident institutional units of the countries in which they are located. This definition is what the vast majority of people would class the European union as; an international organisation. ‘International organisations’, those that include the UN (united nations), tend to leave their decision making processes to the executives and those who are higher up in the organisation, which can leave the public, the legislation the organisation is designed to protect, feeling disillusioned from the organisation and not feel as if they get a say. This is something that the EU attempted to prevent and made some progress with the Lisbon treaty, ‘representing the culmination of decades of Treaty reform, to create a closer relationship between the institutions and public’. In contrast, a federal union is a political entity that is characterised by a union of partially self-governing states or regions united by a central government. An example of a federal union is the United states of America. As it has so many states...
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...argues that those who embrace the right-to-work laws are of the opinion that the laws offer the employees with a full mandate on choosing whether to belong to a workers’ union or not. She also outlines that those who oppose the right-to-work laws argue that the laws cripple the efficiency of the workers’ unions, thus rendering them incapable of negotiating on behalf of the employees. Kristine effectively outlines that the right-to-work laws act as the genesis of employment at will. This means that the employers can terminate their employee's contracts at their own leisure. The retention of an employee in a certain workstation is thus...
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...Accession into a monetary union has implications that reach far below the surface of the requirements outlined by a simple agreement or membership criteria. While there are undeniable benefits to some member states, great sacrifices must be made before, during, and after the integration process which eventually render a nation powerless over its monetary policy. Currently, every European nation is faced with the question of whether to join European Monetary Union; however, the eagerness with which new member states join is paralleled by the resistance of several holdouts to adoption of the common currency. With the unprecedented growth rate of the Euro-zone over the past decade and the number of nations currently making the required policy adjustments, core members need to be aware of the motivating factors fueling the growth in the number of new member states. The European Union is experiencing an adverse selection scenario in which nations seeking increased stability are willing to make the sacrifices that membership entails while the redistributive effect of wealth from existing to new relatively poorer member states is an implicit benefit of the current system. When Paul Henri Spaak of Belgium, Christian Pineau of France, Joseph Luns of the Netherlands, Antonion Segni from Italy, Joseph Bech from Luxemburg, and Konrad Adenauer from the Republic of Germany signed the Treaty of Rome in 1957 creating the European Economic Community(EEC), their long-term objective was the...
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...TEACHERS UNIIOUNS EFFECT ON HUMAN RESOURCES AND HOW IT IMPACTS STUDENT PERFORMANCE TEACHERS UNIIOUNS EFFECT ON HUMAN RESOURCES AND HOW IT IMPACTS STUDENT PERFORMANCE ISSUE What does existing research say about the teachers unions influence, both positive and negative, on human resources and how that influence impacts students’ performance? This research is significant because the public school system in the United States as a whole is atrociously underperforming and has been for many years. Most inner city public schools and those public schools that serve the poorer community are outright failing. Some states, such as California, have a parent strike law, which allows the parents to intervene and have the public school overtaken by an outside source if the school doesn’t meet the state standards. Many states have fought hard to prevent this type of law from entering their state. Obviously, it is in the teachers unions best interest to not have this law in their state. But is this disallowance of this type of law harmful to students performance? This law would threaten the teachers job security, so it’s easy to ascertain why they do not support this law. This leaves the human resources department, who may want the law, stuck in the middle and without an avenue to exercise their expertise. Human resources is limited with their ability to but polices in place because it has to abide by the laws of the teachers unions. In a private enterprise the public school system...
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...Labor Laws and Unions Mitch Atkinson HRM/531 October 29, 2012 Dennis Cashman Labor Laws and Unions This paper topic is the organizational benefits of joining a union, the unionization process, union bargaining procedures, and the effects union bargaining has on an organization. American Airlines (AA) and the transportation workers union (TWU) are the selected organization and company. Included information, background information on American Airlines, along with history of TWU at AA, legal issues, and obstacles that AA has encountered with TWU. AMR Corporation, the parent company of American Airlines, Inc. and AMR Eagle Holding Corporation filed in November 2011 a voluntary petition for Chapter 11 reorganization. To achieve a cost and debt structure that was industry competitive for long-term viability. There are various unions associated with the airline industry, the one chosen to discuss in this paper is the transportation workers union. TWU has 114 autonomous locals representing more than 200,000 members in 22 states around the country. As part of the Chapter 11 reorganization of AA the initial announcement that as many as 11,000 workers may be let go at the Fort Worth-based airline. The most recent announcement from AA is that approximately 4,400 mechanics, store clerks, and ground crew members of TWU will be part of a lay off. There are seven TWU workgroups representing approximately 24,000 employees at American Airlines. As part of the strategic and collective...
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...Labor Unions: Do Unions Affect Labor’s Share of Income: Evidence Using Panel Data April 17, 2013 Introduction Labor unions have been a part of the U.S. economy since 1935 when the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) was passed. Federal legislation made the NLRA the main component in determining how labor unions and employers interact with each other in the private sector. In Strategic Compensation: A Human Resource Approach, the author notes, “Since the passage of the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) of 1935, the federal government requires employers to enter into good faith negotiations with workers over the terms of employment (Martocchio, 2012).” Dr. Rudy Fichtenbaum, professor of economics at Wright State University, investigated the impact of unions on labor’s share of income in the United States. Though previous economists have presented various formulae to calculate labor’s share of income, in Fichtenbaum’s study, it is defined as labor compensation divided by the value added in manufacturing. In an effort to supplement and clarify past research that had been done on this subject, Fichtenbaum (2006) explained: The study was conducted to add to the understanding of the effect of unions on labor’s share of income by developing an analytical module of imperfect competition using panel data methodology for the manufacturing sector. (p. 784) Here, the author highlights his departure from the methods used in older studies on this topic...
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...ultimately benefit from trade between one another. This can be done by forming a Free Trade Area, Custom Union, Common Market, Economic Union, or Political union. A Free Trade Area is where counties in the group try and remove tariffs and quotas on the goods and services being traded between the countries. By choosing Free Trade Areas they are allowed to trade freely among member but have an independent policy for non-members. The European Free Trade Association is an example of a free trade area. A Custom Union is similar to free trade areas but members must conduct and pursue common external tariff. Custom unions help increase efficiency by bring the countries involved closer. The European Union is an example of a custom union. A common market is basically custom unions that along with increase efficiency, allow for free factor mobility across members. It makes it easy for capital and labor to be traded between members of the common market. An economic union is a union just like a common market but wants to use one common monetary and fiscal policy. The European Union is close to forming an economic union because it is made up of 27 member states with 15 of those members using the Euro as the official countries currency. The European Union is the second largest importer in the worlds and largest exporter. It is hard for countries to form these types of unions because when giving up monetary...
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...What was Lincoln’s Emancipation Proclamation? The emancipation proclamation was an executive order to free slaves but not actually free any at the time. There were some problems in the war for the Union which caused Lincoln to give this proclamation. Although the Union had suffered numerous defeats to the south at the beginning of the war the south was struggling and needed a foreign aid to win the war. They were trying to receive aid from Great Britain for the use of their cotton which is the reason Lincoln passed this proclamation. If the south would have gained a foreign aid in the war it would be a great struggle for the Union. By passing this proclamation Lincoln made the war about slavery which caused a problem for the south receiving...
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