WEEK 1Striking a Balance
Monic
“WEEK 1Striking a Balance (graded)When efficiency, equity, voice, and other employee, union, and
corporate goals conflict with each other, what should happen next?
Should property rights dominate labor rights? Should labor rights
dominate property rights? Should they be balanced? Defend your
reasoning.Contemporary Pressures in Labor Relations (graded)
Discuss the current pressures on the U.S. labor relations
systemon the corporate side, workplace flexibility and employment
involvement (stemming at least partly from globalization) and on the
labor side, low union density, a representation gap, and difficulties in
organizing new workers.WEEK 2
Union and Labor Key Strategies (graded)
Like any business, labor relations require a strategic approach
to create an efficient plan in support of employees. What is a key union
or labor strategy that is still used today? What is a key historical
strategy that should no longer be part of a labor relations plan?
Thoroughly explain both responses.Labor History (graded)
It has been written, The attempt of persons to understand the
forces remaking their world and, by organization, to control them,
constitutes the major motif of the social history of the late 19th
century. Describe how this statement applies to workers and unions in
the different periods of labor history. Does this statement have
applicability in todays labor relations arena?When efficiency, equity, voice, and other employee, union, and
corporate goals conflict with each other, what should happen next?
Should property rights dominate labor rights? Should labor rights
dominate property rights? Should they be balanced? Defend your
reasoning.Discuss the current pressures on the U.S. labor relations
systemon the corporate side, workplace flexibility and employment
involvement (stemming at least partly from globalization) and on the
labor side, low union density, a representation gap, and difficulties in
organizing new workers.WEEK 2
Like any business, labor relations require a strategic approach
to create an efficient plan in support of employees. What is a key union
or labor strategy that is still used today? What is a key historical
strategy that should no longer be part of a labor relations plan?
Thoroughly explain both responses.It has been written, The attempt of persons to understand the
forces remaking their world and, by organization, to control them,
constitutes the major motif of the social history of the late 19th
century. Describe how this statement applies to workers and unions in
the different periods of labor history. Does this statement have
applicability in todays labor relations arena?”
