Examples of labor union in the following topics:
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- Labor unions provide members with the power of collective bargaining over and fight for workers rights.
- Labor unions are legally recognized as representatives of workers in many industries in the United States.
- To join a traditional labor union, workers must either be given voluntary recognition from their employer or have a majority of workers in a bargaining unit vote for union representation.
- In 2007, the Labor Department reported the first increase in union memberships in 25 years and the largest increase since 1979.
- Outline the development and purpose of labor unions for workers in society
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- An example of a labor union is the American Federation of Labor and Congress of Industrial Organization (AFL-CIO), whose constituent unions represent most American workers.
- An example of a craft union was the American Federation of Labor before it merged with the Congress of Industrial Organization.
- One branch of industrial sociology is labor process theory (LPT).
- Industrial unionism is a labor union organizing method through which all workers in the same industry are organized into the same union—regardless of skill or trade—thus giving workers in one industry, or in all industries, more leverage in bargaining and in strike situations.
- Summarize the main points of industrial sociology and Labor Process Theory, including the development of labor unions and types of unionism
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- Labor unions attempt to bring more balance into this relationship by forming large coalitions of employees who, by working together, can exert power of their own.
- A rally of the trade union UNISON in Oxford during a strike
- Labor unions attempt to bring more balance into the relationship between employers and employees by forming large coalitions of employees who, by working together, can exert power of their own.
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- Business-led welfare capitalism was only common in American industries that employed skilled labor.
- In the United States, workers formed labor unions to gain greater collective bargaining power.
- In addition to directly challenging businesses, they lobbied the government to enact basic standards of labor.
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- Business organizations will favor low corporate taxes and restrictions of the right to strike, whereas labor unions will support minimum wage legislation and protection for collective bargaining.
- Many Americans have the feeling that these wealthy interests, whether corporations, unions, or specially organized campaign finance organizations called Political Action Committees (PACs), are so powerful that ordinary citizens can do little to counteract their influence.
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- Some social scientists have found that poorly-compensated Mexican farm laborers are made to work under potentially unsafe conditions to meet the demand for produce in wealthier trading nations, such as the United States.
- For example, some critics suggest that Mexican farm laborers are exposed to pesticides that are banned in many developed nations.
- For example, some critics suggest that Mexican farm laborers are exposed to pesticides that are banned in many developed nations.
- Unemployment, or the rate of potential members of the labor force who are unable to find or maintain employment, has been at continuously high levels in Mexico.
- In spite of splendid macroeconomic indicators, low levels of inflation, and stable currency, job creation has not kept pace with a growing population and labor pool.
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- At the same time, technological innovation continued to increase the efficiency of manufacturing, which required less and less manual labor.
- Just as many American companies have moved their manufacturing operations to developing nations, where they can hire workers for far lower wages, so too have manufacturers in the United States relocated from the heavily unionized Northeast and Midwest toward the Southeast and Southwest.
- In these areas, right-to-work states limit the power of unions to raise wages.
- They have also eliminated jobs, as technological innovation has reduced the demand for manual labor.
- Though total industrial employment has been relatively stable over the past forty years, the overall U.S. labor force has increased dramatically, resulting in a massive reduction in the percent of the labor force that is engaged in industry.
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- Trade blocs can be stand-alone agreements between several states, such as the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) or part of a regional organization, such as the European Union.
- A single market is a type of trade bloc that is composed of a free trade area for goods, with common policies on product regulation, as well as freedom of movement on capital, labor, enterprise, and services.
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- In a capitalist society (which was co-evolved with the Industrial Revolution), rather than owning the fruits of their labors, the proletariat or working class owns only their labor power, not the fruits of their labors (i.e., the results of production).
- The capitalists or bourgeoisie employ the proletariat for a living wage, but then keep the products of the labor.
- As a result, the proletariat is alienated from the fruits of its labor – they do not own the products they produce, only their labor power.
- By re-connecting the individual with the fruits of their labor and empowering them toward true self-governance, species being would be realized and happiness would be returned.
- First, the economic systems that developed in The Soviet Union and China - as well as other parts of the world - was not the communism envisioned by Marx.
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- Capitalism is an economic and social system in which capital and the non-labor factors of production or the means of production are privately controlled; labor, goods and capital are traded in markets; profits are taken by owners or invested in technologies and industries; and wages are paid to labor.
- Inside these corporations, a division of labor separates shareholders, owners, managers, and actual laborers.
- This argument is intertwined with Marx's version of the labor theory of value asserting that labor is the source of all value, and thus of profit.
- Labour unions and the government also influence wages in capitalist nations.
- Unions act to represent labourers in negotiations with employers over such things as wage rates and acceptable working conditions.