...COURSE PROJECT Anal Patel UPS STRIKE Date: - 10/10/2011 Table of Content:- INTRODUCTION……………………………….……………………………PAGE 3. BACKGROUND……………………………………………………………...PAGE 3. STRIE SETTLEMENT…………………………………………..………….PAGE 7. RECOMMENDATION / STAND POINT……….………………………….PAGE 10. CONCLUSION……………………………………………………………….PAGE 13. REFERENCE…………………………………………………………………PAGE 13. INTRODUCTION:- The strike against United Parcel Service conducted by the Teamsters was seen as both disruptive and successful. It was disruptive to the national shipping patterns and so to business in general, yet the public supported the strikers over the company by a wide margin. This might have changed had the strike continued any longer than it did, but the Teamsters, as led by President Ron Carey, managed to make good use of public sentiment to pressure UPS to settle the strike. From the first, the Teamsters had the high ground given the nature of the dispute and the fact that the public was also concerned about the issue of part-time work and the way companies were using part-time workers to avoid paying full price for full-time employees in the same jobs. UPS said the strike cost them about $650 million in lost business. The union paid about $10 million in strike benefits to members who got $55 a week for manning the picket lines. An analysis of the UPS strike shows that it is a case of hard bargaining in which the Teamsters benefited from being able to generate public support and also from the good fortune...
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...Consitituion they manadated Congress to have the power to establish post offices (Sanburn, J. (2011) Congress later enacted home deleivery and and eventually established Parce11 Post in 1913. (Universal Serve and Postal Monoply, 2008) The post For the next severl decades the postal service ran smoothly and incoprated new technology as the came along. Union History Postal Unions date back to the late 19th centuary. Initially, Postal unions were limited in function and mostly exsisted as lobbying organizations with limited bargaining rights. (Boyd and Chen, n.d.) Postal unions did not gain collect bargaining right until the enactment of the Postal Reorganization Act in 1971. There are several unions associated with the Post Office strike mainly; The National Association of Letter Carriers, National Postal Unions National Alliance of Postal and Federal Employees, and American Postal Workers Union. The National Association of Letter Carriers (NALC) was founded in 1889. The NALC came to be after About 60 letter carriers answered the call that went out to all city post offices for a meeting to create a national letter carriers' organization. (Boyd and...
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...A strike is a form of protest whereby a group of employees withhold labour in order to pressure employers into granting a particular demand. (Cambridge Dictionairies) Causes and effects of strikes in South Africa: Causes - Lack of transformation, mutual respect, trust, and socio-economic equity (SABC, 2014). - Dissatisfaction with pay or working and living conditions. Effects - Companies: financial losses, reduced productivity, profitability and market share, and delayed service delivery. Employees: no work means no pay. Example and Description of a Strike that made Headlines in the Media: The Marikana miners' strike took place in 2012 at a platinum mine owned by Lonmin in Marikana , South Africa. It begun over a wage dispute, whereby miners demanded a 300% increase in their monthly wage, as compensation for being ‘exploited’ through dire living conditions, dangerous working conditions, and poor pay. The strike was headed by two rival trade unions, the AMCU, and the NUM, and this is believed to have encouraged violence as each union fought to win the wage battle. (Chapple & Barnett, 2012) On August 12, When Lonmin failed to meet with employees as requested, 3000 rock-drill miners walked off the job in protest, and refused to work until their demands were met. Striking turned violent, and police used stun grenades and tear gas to disperse the strikers, who were growing increasingly aggressive and armed with machetes. The strike then made international headlines on August...
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...combines WGAEast and WGAWest, who represent just about every writer in movies, television, and even radio. Every three years the WGA has to negotiate a new contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers or the AMPTP. The two sides were unable to come up with an agreement by November 5th thus the over 12000 members of WGA are officially on strike. It means that virtually all of the scripted shows on the small screen are on an indefinite hiatus once the already written episodes run out, and on the big screen, the postponement of some highly hyped films. The main reason behind the strike is residual from DVDs and “new media” meaning the internet and other new types of media. The WGA would like to see an increase in kickbacks from DVD sales and some from “new media” for which they currently get nothing. The WGA claims that most writers rely on the residuals during tough times while the AMPTP claim that they have to keep up with the rising cost of operation. The AMPTP has refused to budge on most of the important issues; however, the two sides are planning to resume talks on November 26th. The WGA strike in 1988 lasted 22 weeks; let us hope this one does not last that long I would rather not have primetime littered with shows like “Are You Smarter than a Fifth Grader?” Although the two sides represent tens of thousands of members, the real communication or the lack thereof is amongst a small group of representatives. In this case, they are a problem-solving...
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...there have been many strikes in history. I have chosen the Railroad Strike of 1877 to discuss and talk about. The incident occurred on July 14, 1877, in response to the cutting of wages. The strike over the wages being cut on railroad workers for a third time in a year. Workers highly disagreed on this decision and the strike lasted 45 days. People were killed and militia and federal troops were involved. Federal troops and militias were organized, with guns, to fight against the workers who were protesting. Disruption was widespread and at its height, the strikes were supported by about 100,000 workers. With the intervention of federal troops in several places, most of the strikes were calmed down by early August. Labor continued to work...
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...The Lawrence Strike, also known as the Bread and Roses Strike, took place in Lawrence, Massachusetts during 1912. In the beginning of that year, a new law had been executed in which work hours were reduced from 56 hours to 54 hours for women and children, causing mill owners to lower their wages in order to compensate for the lost hours. On January 11, nearly 30,000 textile workers participated in this walkout. These protesters consisted of a mixture of different cultures and ethnicities. They united together through the help of organizations, such as the Industrial Workers of the World, IWW, who assembled strikes, picket lines, marches, and parades to fight for better conditions. The strikes soon turned violent between the protesters and...
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...Wildcat School Bus Driver Strike Causes Industrial Relations Breakdown in Boston Brian Fortney 10/20/2013 A wildcat school bus driver strike in Boston Massachusetts stranded about 33000 students on Tuesday Oct 8 2013 causing the city, and parents to scramble in order to get students to school. Most of the city’s 700 bus drives held a wildcat strike citing issues with their employer Veolia Transportation who was awarded a five year bussing contract in 2013. The bus drivers union, the United Steelworkers Local 8751, did not condone the strike and even had Union leaders visit the bus yards requesting the striking drivers to return to work. Attorney for the union Patrick Bryan, said union leadership did not authorize a strike and said Tuesday’s action was organized by desperate union members. There was a very large impact with this type of wildcat strike as the action by rogue union members was not supported by the Union and therefore not only gives the impression that the Union does not have control of its members but creates tensions within its own membership. The city was required to put in place contingency measures to ensure it can maintain student travel arrangements outside of the contract it has with Veolia Transportation. Veolia Transportation must deal with concerns of rogue union members outside of the current collective agreement with the union. This strike action also has impacts outside of the Union and Veolia Transportation. The...
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...530 Should Public Employees be allowed to strike? Strikes are a movement by employees when they feel their labor is being unappreciated or there is a wrong doing with their pay and possibly retirement plan. This will cause employees to band together and strike. A strike is when employees refuse to do the work that their employer has asked of them. It is usually the last step in labor management negotiations and is something that both sides typically want to avoid. Since when employees go on a strike both sides lose out on something. Employees do not get paid and the employers do not get their productivity done. In history, public employees never had the right to strike and they never struck before the 1960’s. That is the movement that they began to fight for their rights as public employees and it caused a major movement for public employees to stand up for themselves and fight back against the union that was violating their rights as public employees. Until the late 1960s, public employee strikes were illegal in every jurisdiction in the U.S. Yet when the idea took hold and the context was right, hundreds of thousands of public workers struck anyway, violating state laws and court injunctions. And they generally won—achieving recognition and good contracts, and forcing lawmakers to amend state laws to permit public employee bargaining. - See more at: http://labornotes.org/2014/06/inspiration-look-history-public-worker-strikes#sthash.G0co1ed1.dpuf Public employee...
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...Strike as a social problem can first be traced to the disfunctioning of the society when looking at it from the functionalist perspective. Functionalism which is one of the perspectives of studying the society was developed in the 19th century, it’s a framework for building theory that sees society as a complex system whose parts work together to promote solidarity and stability. This approach looks at society through a macro-level orientation, which is a broad focus on the social structures that shape society as a whole, and believes that society has evolved like organisms. This approach looks at both social structure and social functions. Functionalism addresses society as a whole in terms of the function of its constituent elements; namely norms, custom, tradition and institution. A common analogy, popularized by Herbert Spencer presents these parts of society as "organs" that work toward the proper functioning of the "body" as a whole. In the most basic terms, it simply emphasizes "the effort to impute, as rigorously as possible, to each feature, custom, or practice, its effect on the functioning of a supposedly stable, cohesive system". For Talcott Parson "structural-functionalism" came to describe a particular stage in the methodological development of Social Science, rather than a specific school of thought. The structural functionalism approach is a macro sociological analysis, with a broad focus on social structures that shape society as a whole. In summary Functionalism...
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...Strike costs Maruti Suzuki's Manesar plant workers food and family Chanchal Pal Chauhan, ET Bureau Sep 21, 2011, 02.37am IST Tags: * Maruti Suzuki Employees' Union| * Maruti Suzuki MANESAR: For four years, Mukesh Kumar, 25, has been painting bodies of Swifts, A-Stars and SX4s at Maruti Suzuki's fourth and most modern factory at Manesar. For the past 23 days, however, Kumar has stopped doing the job he knows best. He's one among almost 2,000 workers at Maruti, including permanent, casual and apprentices, protesting their employer's condition that they sign a 'good conduct' bond to maintain smooth manufacturing operations. Kumar and his ilk are now preparing for another period of wage loss. In June, Maruti's workers at Manesar had lost 26 days of salary for striking work for 13 days - two days' salary was deducted against each day of strike. Now, they do report to work but are locked out of the factory as they have refused to sign the bond. Ads by Google * Jobs in Maruti-Suzuki.100's of Jobs at Maruti Submit Your Resume Free. Now!MonsterIndia.com * Buy TATA Winger AmbulanceSingle Stretcher Ambulance With Extra safety at an affordable pricewinger-tatamotors.com So how do Kumar and his brethren cope with such tough times? Well, for starters, they've packed off their families back home to the far-flung villages of Haryana. Kumar, for instance, has sent his wife, brother and father to Hisar, 170 km away from the industrial belt of Manesar. It makes perfect sense...
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...Labor strikes in the 1800s and 1900s began when employees went on strikes for various reasons such as, wage cuts, new machinery, and longer work hours with less pay. A strike is a group of employees who organize a work stoppage to put pressure on their boss or company until their demands are met. Countless smaller strikes were all due to the same reasons listed above or a few other reasons. The first nationwide strikes were the railroad strikes. Many workers were upset due to their wages being cut, they were already struggling with money and now they are getting even less than before. The strikes began to spread and it became known as a General Strike. In some of the labor strikes military and militia were sent in to help stop the...
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...The Postal Strike of 1970 was the principle nationwide strike of federal specialists. It began in New York City on March 18, 1970, and quickly spread to more than 200,000 letter bearers, collaborators, and mail handlers nationwide. The walkout was incited by the poor pay earned by urban postal workers and the qualification in pay rates between the government and private parts. In spite of the way that the strike completed inside one week, it was responsible for an amazing overhaul of the relationship between the federal government and sorted out work. The wildcat improvement shot out with such suddenness that Congress, the Administration and the power of seven postal unions were not capable move quickly or feasibly to recuperate the men on their occupations. Union and Administration powers introduced in Washington toward the end of a week back, yet the illegal strike, which started in New York City, quickly spread to enveloping zones and relentlessly began strolling north to New England and westward the country over, hitting Akron, Buffalo, Chicago, Cleveland, Dearborn, St. Paul, Detroit, Denver and San Francisco—and various more diminutive gatherings between. By week's end the strike had either shut down or shortened organization in more than 30 imperative urban groups, was at the same time spreading....
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...the way an employee looked or has a personal issue with an employee, he/she could fire the employee if he pleases. It was really difficult for a worker to walk up to management to state complains or concerns. The U.S post office department’s management at the time lacked organization and was outdated. The U.S. postal strike of 1970 was a ground breaking two-week strike, which started on March 18, 1970. At this time, postal workers were not allowed by law to engage in collective bargaining especially in issues concerning wages. The postal strike of 1970 focused on higher wages and better working conditions, postal workers first started getting hit with wage decreases back during the depression of the 1930s. Government workers at that time got a 25% wage cut under the executive order by Franklin Roosevelt. As stated above, things were done by executive order or acts of congress pertaining to government workers including postal workers. The wages been paid at that time was not enough for employees to fend for their family and so most workers were living with the aid of government support like food stamps. According to Tara Lee, one of the leaders of the strike in New York, she only got a pay raise once, a 9 cent the first year she worked for the postal service which made her pay go from $2.95 an hour to $3.o4 an hour. it took 21 years for an employee to get to top pay. In 1970, full time employees started out at $6,176 per annum ($34,641 in 2010 dollars) and after 21 years of...
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...Should Public Employees Be Allowed to Strike? Public sector employment involves working for any “local, state or federal agency”, effectively making the government the main employer for all public sector workers. Organized labor in the US has been a big part of the public sector since the early 1900’s, but this arena has seen some drastic changes occur in the last century. Looking at the data, it is clear to see that union membership has declined from 1/3 of the nationwide non-agricultural work force, to a mere 12.3% in recent years. Since then though, we also see a sharp decline in private sector unions, but interestingly enough, there was an increase in public-sector union membership, which is now estimated to be around 7.9 million employees. In addition, numerous economists agree, and have stated time and time again, that public sector unions and the political power they currently hold actually increases government spending, by making public goods and services unavailable through strikes, and by skewing the overall pay grade for public sector jobs at a National scale. The main problem being, that the overall demographic of union members in the last 50 years has dramatically changed. To put it in perspective, the public sector usually a higher wage for lower end jobs when compared to the private sector. The Bureau of Labor Statistics released its data and concluded that the average median pay for office clerks actively working in the public sector was $27K in 2005, the average...
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...act of protest, the staff from two terminals at Heathrow Airport in London went on a 24-hour strike that cost BA £40 million and 100,000 customers. The general consensus from commentators was that BA management made a huge mistake in launching such an unpopular initiative at the start of their busiest season. In addition, they did not take caution with regard to the attitudes of their employees, who had already reached a high level of bitterness and anger over the lack of consultation, poor wages and a general dissatisfaction with management. The end result of the wildcat strike, which was reached after extensive talks with representatives from three unions, included a delay in the introduction of the swipe card system and a 3% pay raise for administrative staff. Questions Each change perspective gives a slightly different insight into the key issues that resulted in the BA wildcat strike. When evaluating the situation from the organization development perspective, it is important to systematically evaluate the organization as a whole with specific emphasis on attitudes and behaviors. Had the managers of BA begun their change initiative in this way, they would have understood the negative beliefs held by the organization members that would be affected by the change. The case study said “‘the heart of the issue is that the workforce wants respect’; it was not until the wildcat strike that CEO Rod Eddington was even aware that ‘there was a respect deficit to be plugged’” (Palmer...
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