Unfair labor practice

Unions have made a monumental impact on today’s working conditions, before unions were established working conditions were poor, unsafe and had no vacations or holidays. It wasn’t until 1886, when Samuel Gompers created the American Federation of Labor that employers could do and treat employees however they pleased. Samuel Gompers set the union movement into motion, which later helped establish the Sherman Anti-trust Act in 1890. The act helped protect individuals from monopolies created by big

Nike and Unfair Labor Practices I. Introduction Nike has been accused of the unfair labor practice of sweatshop labor. A sweatshop is a place with hazardous working environments, extreme temperatures and abusive employers, hence the term sweat shop. Sweatshop workers work long days exceeding 14 hours and earn less than the living wage (Britanica, n.d.). While these conditions may be shocking to Americans and Modern Western Nations the notion of abusive working conditions is more attractive to

Morris ed. 1987) (“the NLRB has not only failed to prevent unfair labor practices, but has actually encouraged their commission because its processes and remedies are so ineffective.”); Martha S. West, The Case Against Reinstatement in Wrongful Discharge, 1988 U. ILL L. REV. 1 25-29, 64 (1988) (finding that the current remedies available to the NLRB are ineffective in preventing employers from committing unfair labor practices); Robert M Worster III, Casenote: If It’s Hardly Worth Doing, It’s

Aimee Picchi, Union: Walmart Shut 5 Stores Over Labor Activism, CBS NEWS (Apr. 20, 2015), http://www.cbsnews.com/news/union-walmart-shut-5-stores-over-labor-activism/. Beth Ethier, Accused of Retaliating Against Workers, Walmart Says It Closed Stores Over Plumbing Problems, SLATE (Apr. 20, 2015), http://www.slate.com/blogs/the_slatest/2015/04/20/walmart_accused_of_closing_stores_to_punish_activist_workers_union_files.html. Picchi, supra note 1. Steven Greenhouse, Walmart Illegally Punished

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is a federal government agency, founded by Congress in 1935 (Galiatsos, 2015). The primary responsibility of the NLRB is to administer the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). However, the NLRB takes action to safeguard employees' right to organize, and to decide whether to have unions serve as their bargaining representative, with their employer (Galiatsos, 2015). The agency also acts to prevent and remedy unfair labor practices that are committed by

coverage under the LMRA by engaging in interstate commerce, thus, the particular employee right protected by section 7 of the LMRA is that they have been wrongfully discharged because of their protected, concerted activities. As stated by the National Labor Relations Board (n.d.)

units, monitoring representing elections, selecting a bargaining agent and solving the employment and labor related disputes of employees working in the public sector. Bargaining is the process through which employers and employees negotiate the terms of work and set them down in a formal contract that lays out all of the rules and regulations. Each side nominates a representative, so both labor and management are able to convey their terms and conditions and reach a mutually satisfactory agreement

chapters with leadership that may not all remain on course with companies’ values. For example: there have been many allegations of fraud, misappropriate of funds, and unfair labor practices within local chapters. According, to an article written by Knake (2011) The Red Cross was found guilty by a federal judge of several unfair labor practice charges in 2011 in Michigan. It is said that the company has paid out more than $35 million in fines to the FDA and has refused to bargain on a national level

said, Ewing refused to give Melton an answer. Melton’s statement to Ewing was indefinite and can be taken as a warning or a threat. However amidst all of this, Melton definitely did violate the National Labor Relations Act Section 8(a)(1). Section 8(a)(1) of the Act makes it an unfair labor practice for an employer "to interfere with, restrain, or coerce employees in the exercise of the rights guaranteed in Section 7" of the Act(NLRB). The promising to pay and paying employees for certain medical benefits

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