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A 3 page paper discussing labor unions’ relevance in today’s business environment. At the time they came into being, trade unions were necessary in many industries. Many employers could see nothing wrong at all with working children for long, hard hours; others were largely unconcerned with their workers’ safety. Unions arose at a time when it was virtually impossible for a simple laborer to advance in the company in any meaningful way, and pay often was a subsistence wage that could barely feed and house a family. Businesses and working conditions are different in today’s environment, and labor unions are far less relevant now than in the distant past. Bibliography lists 3 sources.
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came into being, trade unions were necessary in many industries. Many employers could see nothing wrong at all with working children for long, hard hours; others were largely unconcerned
with their workers safety. Unions arose at a time when it was virtually impossible for a simple laborer to advance in the company in any meaningful way, and pay
often was a subsistence wage that could barely feed and house a family. Such circumstances often were the case in the 1930s at
the height of trade union activity. Built on a tradition of animosity between labor and management, trade unions appear to have lost their usefulness in todays environment. The Great
Divide Labor unions typically disdain any company statement addressing reduced revenues, increased costs or business downturn, claiming that the company is merely trying
to keep more of its profits for itself or its shareholders, making money "on the backs of its workers." Generally, this is rhetoric targeting workers and meant to market
the unions usefulness to employees. Any competent manager knows that the organizations workers are the heart of its operation and that there would be no business without them.
Businesses do not strive to work their employees to death for nothing more than subsistence wages. When General Motors sought to emulate Japanese
manufacturing techniques in the mid-1980s, its senior management realized that the adversarial relationship that had been traditional with GM and the United Auto Workers (UAW) was too ingrained to readily
change in any existing plant. It built its Tennessee Saturn plant around the lessons learned from the Japanese. The UAW representative at the plant was distrustful at first,
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