Assignment: Labor Relations & Performance Management
Describe and analyze the various labor relations processes, rights, and responsibilities of unions and management.
Discuss the role of HR professionals in labor-management relations.
Additional Information: SaharaOasis will have to hire union members for its U.S. warehouse positions. It is a stipulation in their collective bargaining agreement that if the organization expands its operations, the union will represent the warehouse workers. However, one of its U.S. locations is a "right-to-work" state.
Using Bloomberg Businessweek resources, research right-to-work laws, and respond to the following questions:
- Briefly discuss the law that allows for right-to-work states to exist and why it was implemented.
- What does this mean for employees, and how does this differ from the union situation in non-right to work states?
- What does this mean for management and the organization in general?
- What advantages and disadvantages might there be for management and the organization?
Provide a reference list at the end of your primary task response of at least 1 Bloomberg Businessweek articles, and include in-text citations for the articles in APA format.
Response should be 850 to 950 words
APA format, At least 4 references.