Recognizing and Avoiding Unfair Labor Practices

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Recognizing and Avoiding Unfair Labor Practices Unit VI Case Study Nkomo, Fottler & McAfee (2000) opens the study by saying that managers should be able to recognize unfair labor practice as well as to avoid it. Managers should also understand the process conducted by the Department of Labor if an alleged unfair practices has been committed and/or reported. There are two critical thinking questions that will be answered based of three scenarios that are given. Critical Thinking Questions: 1. For each of the three scenarios, determine whether you think an unfair labor practice would be committed if you as a manager act on the request that is being given to you by management or employees. Which unfair practice(s) could be violated? In some situations, more than one unfair labor practice could occur. Answer: A union is an organization that represents the employees' interests to management on issues pertaining to wages, hours, and/or working conditions. There are typically three reasons that an employee may seek joining a union. Reason I is if they are dissatisfied with certain aspects of their job. Reason 2 is that an employee feels powerless or has no influence with management in terms of making changes. Lastly, reason 3 is an employee sees unionization as an answer to their problems. The role of a manager in any scenario is that the manager is the front line lead when dealing with employee or labor-management matters. They should have the knowledge in knowing how to direct unhappy employees to whom they need to talk with on their concerns. All managers should be familiar with the three laws concerning labor relations. These three laws are; (1) the Wagner Act (the National Labor Relations Act, NLRA, of 1935), (2) the Taft-Hartley Act (Labor Management Relations Act, LMRA, of 1947), and (3) the Landrum-Griffin Act (Labor Management Reporting and

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