E-HRM | Labor Union| Unit 6
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E-HRM | Labor Union| Unit 6
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Employees Relations Definition
Human resource activities associated with movement of
employees within firm after they become organizational
members
Internal Employees Relation Activities
Disciplinary Actions
Transfers
Resignation
Promotion
Termination
Retirement
Disciplinary Actions
Discipline - State of employee self-control and orderly
conduct. Disciplinary action -Invokes penalty against
employee who fails to meet established standards
Disciple Teach
Disciplinary Actions
Intent of disciplinary action should be to ensure
recipient/employee sees disciplinary action as learning
process
Disciplinary Actions
Effective Disciplinary Action?
1. Addresses employee’s wrongful behavior, not employee
as a person.
2. Should not be applied haphazardly
Disciplinary Actions
Effective Disciplinary Action?
3. Not usually management’s initial response to a problem
4. Normally, there are more positive ways of convincing
employees to adhere to company policies
Disciplinary Actions
Termination
Most severe penalty; should be most carefully considered
Termination
Termination of no managerial/ nonprofessional employees
If firm unionized, termination procedure well defined in
labor agreement
Non-Union workers can generally be terminated more
easily.
Termination
Termination of executives
Affects on Economic
Reorganization/downsize
Philosophical differences
Decline in productivity
No formal appeals procedure
Termination
Termination of middle- and lower-level managers and
professionals
In past, most vulnerable and neglected group with regard to
termination
Not members of union nor protected by labor agreement
Transfers
Lateral movement of worker within organization
Should not imply that person is being either promoted
or demoted
Transfers
Transfers Serve Several Purposes
Necessary to reorganize
Make positions available in primary promotion channels
Satisfy employees’ personal desires
Transfers
Transfers Serve Several Purposes
Deal with personality clashes
Becoming necessary to have wide variety of experiences
before achieving promotion
Promotion
Movement to higher level in company
One of the most emotionally charged words in human
resource management
Resignation
Exit interview: Means of revealing real reasons employees
leave jobs which is conducted before employee departs
company.
Resignation
Post-Exit questionnaire - Sent to former employees several
weeks after leave organization to determine real reason the
employee left.
Resignation
Attitude Surveys: Means of Retaining Quality Employees
Seek employee input to determine feeling about such topics
as:
Resignation
Work environment
Opportunities for advancement
Firm’s compensation system
Their supervisor
Training and development opportunities
Resignation
Advanced notice of resignation
Would like 2 weeks
Communicate policy to all employees
May pay employee for notice time and ask him/her to
leave immediately
Retirement
Many long-term employees leave organization through
retirement.
> 60
Labor Union Objectives
To secure and improve living standards and economic status
of members.
To enhance and guarantee individual security against threats
and contingencies that might result from market
fluctuations, technological change, or management
decisions.
Labor Union Objectives
To influence power relations in social system in ways that
favors and does not threaten union gains and goals.
To advance welfare of all who work for a living, whether
union members or not.
Labor Union Objectives
To create mechanisms to guard against use of arbitrary and
capricious policies and practices in workplace.
Labor Union Growth Strategies
Importance of jobs held by union members significantly
affects union power
Few strategically located union members may exert
disproportionate amount of power
Truckers or dock workers can affect entire country.
Strategically Located Union Members
Labor Union Growth Strategies
Service Employees International Union (SEIU) in Houston
organized janitors at several big companies at once.
Negotiated big industry-wide contract.
Eliminates each company’s fear of being undercut by
competitors if it allows higher wages.
Companies stay neutral.
Organizing Several Big Companies at Once
Labor Union Growth Strategies
Put pressure on end user of company’s product
Strike against four Johnson Controls factories that make
interior parts for some of country’s best-selling vehicles
GM and Chrysler played active behind-the-scenes role by
pressuring JCI to settle dispute
Pulling the Union
Labor Union Growth Strategies
Political arm of AFL-CIO is Committee on Political
Education (COPE)
Union recommends and assists candidates who will best
serve its interests
Political Involvement
Labor Union Growth Strategies
With friends in government, union in stronger position
Give money to candidates who pledge to help pass pro-labor
legislation
Political Involvement
Labor Union Growth Strategies
Process of training union organizers to apply for jobs at
company and, once hired, work to unionize
Supreme Court has ruled employers cannot discriminate
against union salts
Union Salting
Labor Union Growth Strategies
Process of union inundating communities with organizers to
target particular business
Unions typically choose companies in which nonunionized
employees have asked for help in organizing
Flooding the Community
Labor Union Growth Strategies
Target weak managers’ departments as way to appeal to
dissatisfied employees
Flooding the Community
Labor Union Growth Strategies
Labor maneuvers that do not coincide with strike or
organizing campaign to pressure employer for better wages,
benefits, and the like
Alternative to strikes because more employers are willing to
replace striking workers
Public Awareness Campaigns
Labor Union Growth Strategies
Employers have less recourse against labor campaigns
involving joint political and community groups that support
union goals
Public Awareness Campaigns
Labor Union Growth Strategies
AFL-CIO asks its affiliates to increase organizing funds
Increase funding to organizing institute, which trains
organizers, and launches advertising campaign to create
wider public support for unions
Building Organizational Funds
Why Employees Join Unions
The following are some important reasons which clarify
why employees join unions
Dissatisfaction with management
Social outlet
Opportunity for leadership
Forced unionization
Peer pressure
Why Employees Join Unions
Dissatisfaction with management
Compensation
Job Security
Management Attitude
Why Employees Join Unions
Social Outlet
Many people have strong social needs
Take advantage of union-sponsored recreational and social activities
that members and their families find fulfilling
People who develop close personal relationships will likely stand
together in difficult times
Why Employees Join Unions
Opportunity for Leadership
Some individuals aspire to leadership roles
Employees with leadership aspirations can often satisfy those
aspirations through union membership
Union also has a hierarchy of leadership that begins with the union
steward
Why Employees Join Unions
Forced Unionization
In 28 states without right-to-work laws, legal for employer to agree
with union that new employee must join union after certain period
of time (generally 30 days) or be terminated .
Referred to as union shop agreement
Why Employees Join Unions
Forced Unionization
Right-to-Work Laws
Prohibit management and unions from entering into agreements
requiring union membership as condition of employment
Why Employees Join Unions
Forced Unionization
Right-to-Work Laws
State statutes or constitutional provisions that ban practice of
requiring union membership or financial support as condition
of employment
22 states, located primarily in South and West, have adopted
such laws
Peer Pressure
May constantly remind an employee that he or she is not a
member of the union
In extreme cases, union members have threatened
nonmembers with physical violence and sometimes have
carried out these threats .
Collective Bargaining
Performance of mutual obligation of employer and
representative of employees to meet at reasonable times and
confer in good faith with respect to wages, hours, and other
terms and conditions of employment,
Collective Bargaining
or the negotiation of an agreement, or any question arising
there under and execution of written contract incorporating
any agreement reached if requested by either party, but such
obligation does not compel either party to agree to proposal
or require making of a concession.
Bargaining Unit
Consists of employees (not necessarily union members)
recognized by employer or certified by administrative
agency as appropriate for representation by labor
organization for purposes of collective bargaining.
Steps of Forming Bargaining Unit
Signing Authorization Cards
Document indicating employee wants to be represented by
labor organization in collective bargaining
Is there sufficient interest on part of employees to justify
unit?
Signing Authorization Cards
Evidence of interest when at least 30% of employees in
workgroup sign authorization cards
Usually need 50% to proceed
PETITION FOR ELECTION
After authorization cards have been signed, petition for
election made to regional NLRB office
NLRB will ordinarily direct that election be held within 30
days
ELECTION CAMPAIGN
Both union and management usually promote causes
actively
Cannot threaten loss of jobs or benefits
Cannot misstate important facts
Illegal to incite racial or religious prejudice
Election & Certification
NLRB monitors secret-ballot election
Board issues certification of results to participants
If majority of employees vote for union, NLRB will certify
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