Globalization has increased competition in the markets for factors of production (including employees) as well as in the product markets. Businesses can source employees from a larger pool inside and outside the country, but employees too have many more options than before. As a result, the workforce of an organization may be far more diverse and geographically spread out than before. Consider today’s globally competitive work environment and respond to the following:
• Assess whether larger, more powerful unions (such as the AFL-CIO and SEIU) favorably represent their members or whether smaller, more targeted unions would better meet the needs of their members.
• Along with that thought, would unions for specific professions better represent their members’ interests or unions for organizations? Could there be a software programmers’ union or a Google employees’ union, and which would perform better?