labor relations

Examples of labor relations in the following topics:

• The Evolution of Labor Relations

  • Human resource management must carefully monitor the labor relations and regulations in all of the geographic regions where they hire.
  • Labor relations is a subarea of industrial relations, which is the field of employee/employer relationships.
  • The above chart is extremely useful in understanding labor-relations trends over the past century or so in the United States.
  • This held strong for many years, and the decline of unions is a very recent trend in labor relations.
  • Explain the way in which labor relations and labor unions evolve and change over time, alongside the implications of the negotiation process between employers and employees.

• National Labor Relations Act

  • The National Labor Relations Act limits employers' relations to workers who create labor unions and collectively act in support of demands.
  • The National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) is a 1935 United States federal law that limits the means with which employers may react to workers in the private sector who create labor unions, engage in collective bargaining, and take part in strikes and other forms of concerted activity in support of their demands.
  • The law holds that wildcat strikes are illegal, and that workers must formally request that the National Labor Relations Board end their association with their labor union if they feel that the union is not sufficiently supportive of them before they can legally go on strike.
  • "Dominating" or interfering with the formation or administration of any labor organization.
  • The act was a means of demobilizing the labor movement by imposing limits on labor's ability to strike and by prohibiting radicals from their leadership.

• Labor Management Relations Act

  • The Labor Management Relations Act (Taft-Hartley Amendment) is a U.S federal law that monitors the activities and power of labor unions.
  • The Labor Management Relations Act, or the Taft-Hartley Act, is a United States federal law that monitors the activities and limits the power of labor unions.
  • The Taft–Hartley Act amended the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) which Congress passed in 1935.
  • To protect the rights of individual employees in their relations with labor organizations whose activities affect commerce.
  • Examine the Taft-Hartley Act's impact on the National Labor Relations Act

• Labor-Management Relations Act

  • The Labor-Management Relations Act (or the Taft-Hartley Act) is a U.S. federal law that monitors the activities and power of labor unions.
  • Enacted June 23, 1947, the Labor-Management Relations Act (informally the Taft-Hartley Act) is a United States federal law that monitors the activities and power of labor unions.
  • The Taft–Hartley Act amended the National Labor Relations Act (informally, the Wagner Act), which Congress passed in 1935.
  • The amendments enacted in the Labor Management Relations Act (Taft-Hartley) added a list of prohibited actions, or unfair labor practices, on the part of unions to the NLRA, which had previously only prohibited unfair labor practices committed by employers.
  • Truman who failed in his attempted veto of the 1947 Labor-Management Relations Act.

• National Labor Relations Act

  • The National Labor Relations Act establishes the right of most private-sector workers to form unions, bargain with management and strike.
  • In 1935, the Democratic-controlled Congress enacted the National Labor Relations Act, establishing the right of most private-sector workers to form unions, bargain with management over wages and working conditions, and hold strikes to obtain their demands.
  • The National Labor Relations Board, a federal agency, was established to oversee union elections and address unfair labor complaints.
  • The original employer unfair labor practices consisted of:
  • The National Labor Relations Act is to establish the right of most private-sector workers to form unions, bargain with management.

• Empowering Labor

  • In the aftermath of NIRA's failure, the 1935 National Labor Relations Act (NLRA; known also as the Wagner Act) was passed.
  • The act also created the National Labor Relations Board, which was to guarantee the rights included in NLRA (as opposed to merely negotiating labor disputes) and organized labor unions representation elections.
  • Also, the ban on child labor introduced in FLSA did not cover agriculture where child labor was rampant.
  • FLSA was critical to establishing labor standards that remain the foundation of labor law in the United States.
  • Francis Perkins, the Secretary of Labor in the Roosevelt administration, looks on as Franklin Roosevelt signs the National Labor Relations Act.

• Labor Union Impacts on Equilibrium

  • A labor union is an organization of workers who have banded together to achieve common goals.
  • The primary activity of the union is to bargain with the employer on behalf of union members and negotiate labor contracts.
  • The effect of unions on the labor market equilibrium can be analyzed like any other price increase.
  • If employers (those who demand labor) have an inelastic demand for labor, the increase in wages (the price of labor) will not translate into a drop in employment (quantity of labor supplied).
  • Examine the role of unions and collective bargaining in labor-firm relations

• Labor Laws

  • Both types of labor law define employment standards.
  • Government agencies enforce employment standards codified by labor law.
  • Labor laws arose from workers' demands for better working conditions and the right to organize (or, alternatively, the right to work without joining a labor union) and the simultaneous demands of employers to restrict the powers of workers' organizations and to keep labor costs low.
  • This has been the case since the collapse of feudalism and is the core reality of modern economic relations.
  • The National Labor Relations Act, enacted in 1935 as part of the New Deal legislation, guarantees workers the right to form unions and engage in collective bargaining.

• Labor Interest Groups

  • Labor interest groups are a type of economic interest group.
  • The strength of labor interest groups continued in the 19th century.
  • Many of these workers are high-skilled or creative workers who are not eligible for workplace related benefits.
  • In the US there is now also a focus on immigration and labor rights.
  • Explain the decline of labor interest groups and new kinds of organization

• The Decline of Labor

  • The 1920s marked a period of harsh decline for the labor movement.
  • The 1920s also saw a lack of strong leadership within the labor movement.
  • In the 1920s, anti-Filipino sentiment was fueled by the California Department of Industrial Relations statistician Louis Bloch, publisher of a bulletin on Filipino immigration into California.
  • French, the director of the California Department of Industrial Relations, supported the report, to which he wrote an introduction, describing a "third wave of Filipino immigration," the rapidity of which he characterized as being too great.
  • Gompers, president of the American Federation of Labor for 37 years, died in 1924.