Transcript A Labor Union is

A Labor Union is …
• A group of workers
organized to advance
the interests of the
group
• When labor and
management sit down
to discuss a new
contract, this process
is called ………
• Collective bargaining
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Example of a collective bargaining
agreement in the NBA
KEY POINTS
The following are the key points agreed to by the NBA and the Players
Association in their new 6-year collective bargaining agreement:
Players will be guaranteed to receive 57 percent of league revenues (BRI),
the same percentage paid to players the last two seasons. (This is the first
time the league has ever agreed to guarantee the players an agreed-upon
percentage of revenues.)
The Salary Cap will increase from 48 percent of BRI to 51 percent of BRI.
All Cap exceptions will remain unchanged, including the Mid-Level
Exception ($4.9 million per team this past season).
The maximum length of a player contract will be reduced by 1 year, from 7
years for a team’s own players and 6 years for other players to 6 years and
5 years.
The league will guarantee that, on average, all teams will have 14-player
rosters.
The maximum annual increases in multi-year player contracts will be
reduced from 12.5 percent for a team’s own players and 10 percent for
other players to 10.5 percent and 8 percent.
Players will be subject to 4 random drug tests per season and penalties for
use of performance-enhancing drugs will be increased.
When Collective Bargaining Fails:
• Tactics by Workers
• Strike: walkout or
refusal to work
• Boycott: voluntarily
abstaining from using,
buying, or dealing
with someone
• Picket: form of
protest in an attempt
to dissuade others
from going in or to
take action
Tactics by Owners
• Scabs: refers to people who continue to
work during strike action by trade unionists
• Lockout: employer prevents employees
from working
• Injunction: Next slide
• Yellow-Dog
Contracts
• Blacklist
• Injunction: remedy in the form of a court
order, whereby a party is required to do, or
to refrain from doing, certain acts. The
party that fails to adhere to the injunction
faces civil or criminal penalties and may
have to pay damages or accept sanctions
for failing to follow the court's order
Ways to resolve differences
• Mediation
• a 3rd party offers
possible solutions
• Arbitration
• Both sides agree in
accept the arbitrator’s
decision
Government
Types of Labor Unions
1. Closed Shops—company in which only union
members may be hired
2. Union Shops—requires employees to join the
union soon after they are hired
3. Open Shops---a company in which employees
do not have to join a union
4. What type does Texas have?
1. Open Shops
2. Right to Work Laws—state law that forbids
contracts requiring employees to join a union
3. Right to work laws create free riders