Individual Assignment Week 2

HRM 531

Individual Assignment Week #2

Unions are a dynamic component of the American workforce. Many organizations and businesses contain and cooperate with unions to appease their employees and ensure fair work conditions and compensations, although, sometimes this appeasement can infringe on federal or state laws. There are ways to avoid litigation on the unions such as better visibility of their fiscal activity on a political level. There are benefits to joining a union through the bargaining process, hopefully in a win-win or distributive process for both the employee and employer (Cascio, 2010).

Government workers now account for almost half of all union members (Bovard, 1998). In the public school system, teachers are employees of the local...