unions

Examples of unions in the following topics:

• Labor Unions

  • The SEIU, or service employees international union, is the fastest growing union in North America.
  • Other forms of unionism include minority unionism, solidarity unionism, and the practices of organizations such as the Industrial Workers of the World, which do not always follow traditional organizational models.
  • Union membership had been declining in the US since 1954.
  • Most of the recent gains in union membership have been in the service sector while the number of unionized employees in the manufacturing sector has declined.
  • Although most industrialized countries have seen a drop in unionization rates, the drop in union density (the unionized proportion of the working population) has been more significant in the United States than elsewhere.

• The European Union

• Labor Union Impacts on Equilibrium

  • The primary activity of the union is to bargain with the employer on behalf of union members and negotiate labor contracts.
  • In order to achieve these goals unions engage in collective bargaining: the process of negotiation between a company's management and a labor union.
  • However, the reality of unions is more complex.
  • As an organized body, unions are also active in the political realm.
  • One tool that unions may use to raise wages is to go on strike.

• Unions

  • At least 30% of employees must sign petition cards requesting a union.
  • If over 50% of the employees sign an authorization card requesting a union, the employer can voluntarily choose to waive the secret-ballot election process and just recognize the union.
  • The labor union, through its leadership, bargains with the employer on behalf of union members and negotiates labor contracts (collective bargaining) with employers.
  • The agreements negotiated by the union leaders are binding on the union members and the employer, as well as, in some cases, non-member workers.
  • These unions are often divided into locals and united in national federations.

• The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA)

  • Congress to regulate, charter, and supervise federal credit unions.
  • The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) is the United States independent federal agency that supervises and charters federal credit unions.
  • The chartering of credit unions in all states is due to the signing of the Federal Credit Union Act by President Franklin D.
  • As the insurer and regulator of federally chartered credit unions, the NCUA oversees credit union safety and soundness, much like the FDIC.
  • It is sometimes required to place credit unions in conservatorship.

• Credit Unions

  • Like banks, credit unions accept deposits and make loans.
  • Credit unions are democratically operated by members, allowing account holders an equal say in how the credit union is operated, regardless of how much they have invested in the credit union.
  • Credit unions serve members of modest means.
  • Here's what one can expect from a credit union:
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• Modern Labor Organizations

  • Labor unions have lost power in the United States over the years and, today, union membership varies by sector.
  • Most of the recent gains in union membership have been in the service sector, while the number of unionized employees in the manufacturing sector has declined.
  • Historically, the rapid growth of public employee unions since the 1960s has served to mask an even more dramatic decline in private-sector union membership.
  • Although most industrialized countries have seen a drop in unionization rates, the drop in union density (the unionized proportion of the working population) has been more significant in the United States than elsewhere.
  • Unions no longer carry the "threat effect:" the power of unions to raise wages of non-union shops by virtue of the threat of unions to organize those shops.

• Trends in Labor-Management Relations

  • Labor trends include a declining union movement in the US, public sector unions, women leaders, and international unions.
  • Most unions were opposed to Reagan in the 1980 presidential election.
  • Linked to the ITUC, but autonomous, are the global union federations, which seek to bring unions together along sectoral lines.
  • Then there are scores of inter-regional federations, such as the European Trade Union Confederation, the International Confederation of Arab Trade Unions, and the Organization of African Trade Union Unity.
  • Summarize the recent history of the labor union movement in America

• The Decline of Union Power

  • While more than one-third of employed people belonged to unions in 1945, union membership fell to 24.1 percent of the U.S. work force in 1979 and to 13.9 percent in 1998.
  • Dues increases, continuing union contributions to political campaigns, and union members' diligent voter-turnout efforts kept unions' political power from ebbing as much as their membership.
  • Automation is a continuing challenge for union members.
  • The shift to service industry employment, where unions traditionally have been weaker, also has been a serious problem for labor unions.
  • As if these difficulties were not enough, years of negative publicity about corruption in the big Teamsters Union and other unions have hurt the labor movement.

• Landrum-Griffin Act

  • Declare that every union officer must act as a fiduciary in handling the assets and conducting the affairs of the union.
  • Limit the power of unions to put subordinate bodies in trusteeship, a temporary suspension of democratic processes within a union.
  • Provide certain minimum standards before a union may expel or take other disciplinary action against a member of the union.
  • While intended largely to limit union corruption and create a more equitable power structure within the unions, the Act was not without flaws in this regard.
  • On the other hand, it cannot be said that union corruption and abuses of union power have disappeared.