Essays on Labor Management

Negotiating and the Collective Bargaining Process

Part 1 Leadership Management Partnership (LMP) The purpose of Kaiser Permanente and the Coalition of Kaiser Permanente Unions (LMP)’s was to develop a joint strategy to develop organizational change and environment of continuous learning and improvement. In addition, it is linked to the involvement of employees in decision making. It is considered the largest and longest-operating partnership in the U.S. (Labor Management Partnership, 2017).

Union Name and Type of Union

One of the 28 unions in the partnership was United Food and Commercial Workers, Local 7, Professional and Health Care Division. As described earlier, the union was a local union just like other 27 ...

Question 1: Would you expect a stronger anti-union response from an employer in manufacturing or an employer in a service industry?

I would expect a stronger anti-union response from an employer in a manufacturing industry than an employer in the service industry. While every industry has a unique way of responding to unions, there is a significant variation on how manufacturing industry employer responds to a union and the service industry employer respond to union action (Fossum, 2014). Despite the fact that most unions are found in manufacturing, the recent pro-union agreement place an emphasis on the need to create unions within the service industry. There are some arguments that support a stronger union response in the manufacturing industry than ...

Human Resource Management

2016-04-27 One of the most important aspect of each organization is its payment system. It includes a way to establish the relationship between the measure of labor and the measure of compensation for it. The payment system for any employer is established in accordance with the labor laws and other regulations. The compensation system of the organization can balance many forces, including equity issues, labor markets, the financial health and federal laws. The importance of compensation to strategic human resources management is described in the paper of scientist Pynes and other specialists. According to Pynes (2013), a compensation strategy ...