Summary: Changing Landscape Of Unions
Changing Landscape of Unions
BUS 372
Janet Fiorentino
Labor unions are formed by employees. The employees want better benefits and wages. In some cases they want better working conditions. There are many different needs for an employee to join a union. Over the years the use of unions have become less and less. Owing primarily to the inroads of changing technology and the resulting employment decline, as well as to changing market demands affecting manufacturing, organized labor has, it is true, lost some of its membership in recent years, both in absolute and in relative terms (Sloane, 2010). Most employers don’t want their employees to join unions. There are better wages in the United States now and less strikes. Of course to employees’ unions can be beneficial but to the employers they see them as a threat. Unions have gone through a lot of changes. They have to change with the times in order to show that they can keep up and change. Most of the union members are “blue-collar” workers. Today only about 35% of the members remain in this sector. This will force unions to expand beyond this field. …show more content…
Because of technology and with some companies encouraging their employees not to join unions it seems not a never e Entering the twenty first century unions will change. Labor unions are always changing. They have experienced a loss in members No one can dispute labor’s staying power, given the labor movement’s deep penetration into virtually all the traditional parts of our economy and it continuing hold on these areas (Sloane, Witney 2011 p.20). Unions have become more of a community. Local unions have engaged in educational, social and community activities. Union leaders realized that it best for the union to grow is not only be a group but reach out to the community as
BUS 372
Janet Fiorentino
Labor unions are formed by employees. The employees want better benefits and wages. In some cases they want better working conditions. There are many different needs for an employee to join a union. Over the years the use of unions have become less and less. Owing primarily to the inroads of changing technology and the resulting employment decline, as well as to changing market demands affecting manufacturing, organized labor has, it is true, lost some of its membership in recent years, both in absolute and in relative terms (Sloane, 2010). Most employers don’t want their employees to join unions. There are better wages in the United States now and less strikes. Of course to employees’ unions can be beneficial but to the employers they see them as a threat. Unions have gone through a lot of changes. They have to change with the times in order to show that they can keep up and change. Most of the union members are “blue-collar” workers. Today only about 35% of the members remain in this sector. This will force unions to expand beyond this field. …show more content…
Because of technology and with some companies encouraging their employees not to join unions it seems not a never e Entering the twenty first century unions will change. Labor unions are always changing. They have experienced a loss in members No one can dispute labor’s staying power, given the labor movement’s deep penetration into virtually all the traditional parts of our economy and it continuing hold on these areas (Sloane, Witney 2011 p.20). Unions have become more of a community. Local unions have engaged in educational, social and community activities. Union leaders realized that it best for the union to grow is not only be a group but reach out to the community as