Essay On Student Athletes Should Be Paid

As a child, I grew up as a pro-union son of a United Auto Worker who worked 28 years in an iron foundry as a millwright. My father was also a UAW shop steward just like his father had been before he took over that position. Often I found myself sitting around my families' kitchen table at meetings between my dad and various union members as they worked to improve their work conditions and to provide a livable wage to its employees. This union was a family who had everyone's backs to improve everyone and was always willing to fight to get it. The UAW

If an athlete is happy and performs well it reflects well on the coach and helps him to keep his job. Ensuring the athletes play is the greatest goal for some coaches. Most athletes understand this and in turn start to receive cash and other gifts because they know they can. They begin to feel “entitled to pay for play” (Matt Ryan 3). The schools do not do much to prevent this from happening though. They don’t give extra food to athletes that do more physical activity than most ordinary students. Neither do they offer more spacious room accommodations to larger athletes that take up more space than the average student would. An athlete will not always take advantages of their abilities for the cash. Some athletes are in dire need of money to help themselves and their families. They may come from a low-income household where they were looked to for support. The importance “of an athlete who was looked upon for support in the family before college” isn’t as understood by the NCAA (McMurphy 6).

I agree with this. I agree with this because I believe everything/everyone should be equal. Unions give employees an advantage and the only thing I can think about is all the other people who don't have unions. I believe it should either be everything has unions or none. Because I am non-unionized, I choose to agree. I understand a few things that unions do that are good for example unionized workers for the majority have higher wages and that with the collective barging it helps close the income gap between rich and poor, 88.5% of unionized workers receive non-wage benefits like vision dental and drug plans compared to 68.6% of workers without unions and that unionized workers have better pensions. So why do I agree? Because unions main priority are the members not the consumers, with unions there are fewer jobs available, Unions have higher wages but do not have pay raises very often, and unions group employees by groups instead of individuals. I believe that at one time yes, unions were needed but in today's society, it is used for more greed than anything.

Unions have been an essential element in the progression of our nation through making the work environment safer, increasing the pay for workers, and insuring that health and retirement benefits are preserved. The basic idea behind Unions is to put together all the different needs and opinions of the people and make it into one unified voice that brings people struggling to an area of financial security and stability with additional benefits.My relationship to the Union and Labor movement is that my mother is a follower of it. My mother being a follower in the force has affected me greatly in terms of my stability at home and mentally. I don't have to worry about her in regards health, financial stability, and benefits. This is done great

As everything in this world has both positive and negative sides, labor unions are not an exception. There are workers who support them and only want to be union members and others who are completely against them. I believe it depends on your profession, the company you work for and the state you live in. We base our decisions on what is better for us in a particular situation. A friend of mine is a nurse in one of Brooklyn’s Community Hospitals belonging to 1199SEIU union. On my question if she would rather be a member of a union or not, she stopped whatever she was doing, looked at me and said: “It is like having a private spa in your apartment and never going there.” Her analogy was rather vivid and made me realize it is actually worth it to be a union member.

I would say employees join unions because of their unhappiness with how management treats employees and believing that the union can make conditions in the workplace improve. A labor union is formed when multiple workers come together to discuss what actions should be took such as collective bargaining with their wages, benefits, and conditions at their work place with their employer. Wage maybe an interest because most union jobs tend to pay 10-20% more than non-union jobs. Benefits could be a strong topic as well because union workers also have better pensions, medical insurance, paid vacation, holidays, personal holidays, sick pay, and etc. than people with regular jobs. Also as a union worker the contract gives the employees the rights to take immediate action when there is an unsafe condition at work, therefor making union facilities safer than non-union jobs most of the time. While pay and benefits are popular topics in union forming tactics, employees are most swayed to join a union when the company is alleged to be unfair, unsympathetic or offering poor working conditions to employees. Labor unions are what gave African Americans

There are two kinds of employer union workers, any union worker attends to make double the money and have better medical coverage and other benefits that are offer to them. They also have the privilege to go are strike to be heard for more money and benefits and will not wait as long as non union. The non union workers don't make as much money and some have benefits and some don't they have to struggle to make a great amount of money then union worker. And if they go on strike there are not heard as fast as if you were in a union they have to wait so time maybe even years so that they can get the raise they want and better

Labor unions are formed in order to help workers protect his/ her rights as an employee and help the employees stand up for his/ her best interest in regards to his/ her employment with a company. Unions are mostly organized to help the employees and are beneficial to employees in many different ways. “Labor unions affect employees in a variety of different ways, but the most common and beneficial way is by providing members with a collective voice at work” (Zullo, 2011, p. 699). Unions are about the employees working together to get the best pay, benefits, and working conditions possible whether the employees have to just simply ask the management or if the employees have to go on strike before the management will consider the opinions and concerns of the employees. However, once one understands what a union is and how all the members work together to achieve the goal, one can comprehend the benefits and expectations of a unionized workforce and gain knowledge to help fully identify and recognize how unions affect the employees.

Every year, thousands of student athletes across the United States sign the National Collegiate Athletic Association’s Form, by signing this student athletes are waving their right to receive payment for the use of their name and image. Like every other college students, student athletes have to devote time to college courses (or supposed too). (McCann)They also to have to devote a lot of extra hours to their certain sport that gains billions of revenue a year for nothing. It is a crime that this is happening and it needs to be changed. I know there are a lot of people who believe a college scholarship is enough compensation but it’s not. Athletes need to be compensated in the money juggernaut machine that is college athletics.

Although union labors have many perks, if given a choice I would not elect to join a union labor. I would not join a union labor because in today’s work environment all rights are protected and clearly stated. Company owners make all rights protected and clearly stated because they know employees are “sue happy” and will try to sue the company for any minor problems. Another reason why I would not join a union labor is union labors are not as popular as they were before. In a like manner, unions have outlived their usefulness because laws and regulations are in place to protect employees, because of this a union is no longer needed. Today, companies also have a human resource department. Professionals in the human resource department are

Bad news first, right?  Unions have earned a bad rep due to many reasons, such as corruption which is an outstanding factor to why many individuals do not favor unions.  Union board members and committee members in the past have taken bidaries and other forms of payment to commit acts and/or vote in manners that negatievitly affected and/or did not benefit the unions agenda.  Beside corruption, racism in the workforce has stemmed from unions.  Unions members and commitees seek to protect certain groups of workers and when new immigrates or demograhics start to settle in the area, unions push deals with employers that seek to bar employment opprotunies for new demographics in the community and so forth.  Mix corruption and racism and we can see why unions are highly favored in some communities and not in others.  Barring people from employment due to religion, age, sex, color, or creed are tacts for some unions to leverage employment for their people.

Unions were originally formed to provide support and protection for their members from unfair practices. Given the effects of globalization, large and small labor unions offer different advantages when it comes to representing their members. Regardless of the size composition, unions protect the union worker when it concerns work safety, benefits, or employee rights. The union fights for good pay and better benefits and they provide a level of job security over the non-unionized employees. When a company has a union shop, the union has the control over the employees and the organization does not. As a result of not having the control, most companies frown on having a union. In the overall picture, many non-union companies treat their employees

Certainly, mixed opinions exist regarding unions. Some individuals view them with disdain, while others praise them for their value. “Employers with positive attitudes towards unions see them as contributing to a form of workplace democracy, enabling labor and management to join in improving conditions of employment” (Berman, Bowman, West, & Van Wart, 2016, p. 440). Unions can function to improve conditions for employees, and provide benefits for employees which are found in no other way. However, in this role, they may foster negative sentiments which have detrimental effects on the employee-management relationship.

After speaking with several employers I found out the pros and cons of unions from an employer’s perspective as well as the major differences between unionized and union-free environments. Beginning with the pros of unions, employers felt that majority of the employees in unions are happy with their positions in their organization. They discovered that with unions in place, unhappy employees can get help and get their problems or frustrations taken care of. It has been discovered that most union workers are unlikely to leave their positions within an organization. Labor unions also tend to ensure that workers don’t have a reason to underperform or not perform at all. Timely pay increases and competitive benefit packages also help to ensure that majority of employees belonging to unions will perform to the best of their ability. Unions also help ensure that there is no discrimination based on gender, race, age, sexual preference, religion or any other grounds.

Being a member of a union, your voice matters in collective bargaining agreements. You can have a vote on how your work environment will be controlled contractually and not just be on standby waiting to see if your job will still be there when you return the next day. Unions strengthen democracy by giving workers a voice in policy debates. Americans have a constitutionally protected right to associate and ask for change. When Americans wanted to make the economy fairer and more responsive to the needs of workers, they have traditionally joined