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This 3 page report discusses the ways in which the advent of a union reduces an employee's freedom of action in the area of discipline. Bibliography lists 2 sources.
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was still an obvious need for the human element to assure that the technology was utilized properly. There could be no assembly line without the assembly line workers! By the
dawn of the 20th century, workers were becoming well aware of how much the "captains of industry" relied on the lowly worker. As a result, they came to understand that
they deserved some measure of fairness, especially in terms of their wages and work environment. Relying on the strength provided through being organized into a collective whose demands could not
be ignored, the first trade unions were formed and the first steps toward worker empowerment began. It also led to new ways in which employees could discipline and be disciplined.
Employee Freedom of Action The student working on this project should understand that, in 1996, the U.S. Supreme Court mandated that a nonunion company cannot impinge on the rights
of an employee and union member to organize a union within a nonunion company. Fink, Robinson and Nichols (1996) explain that this means that union organizers were granted full protection
under the National Labor Relations Act and that then meant that the employers at a "... nonunion company do not have a right to refuse or terminate employment of an
individual on the basis of union membership because this would be counted as unfair labor practice" (pp. 24). While this is a positive aspect of the organizing of a union
or bringing a union into a non-union business, it can and has proven to also cause problems in terms of limitations on the individual employees freedom of action. A union
may be organized and the organizers cannot be terminated or discriminated against but unless those organizers adequately provide for those employees they "sign up," a far more complicated situation may
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