LAW 531/631: Class 27 - Introduction to Labor Unions

Legal, regulatory, and ethical issues related to employer-employee relationship, including employment-at-will doctrine, discrimination and union contracts.

[ronnieverma]

Union membership dropped after the late 50s due to the Taft-Hartley act. RTW laws are a major blow to union membership. Unions provide better pay, safer working conditions, and a secured retirement. - IBEW LU 103

[m.a.russelldown]

Can anyone tell me the instructors name?

[kimobrien.]

The bosses only expand production when they see profits ahead. While when the the workers gain hire wages the spend that extra money on things workers need increasing production and the need to hire more workers. The best the workers can hope for is for the bosses to invest their profits in expanding production. When they invest it first into replacing skilled labor with unskilled labor and machines to drive profits their way. The bosses can't help but have the tendency to overproduce for markets that can't absorb the overproduction at a profit so they inevitable begin in using profits to drive up fictitious capital value they do this until it way exceeds the exchange value and then it collapses producing an economic crisis. The bosses also have the long term trend of the rate of profit to decline.

[bonichannel]

Labour laws have a long and a crimonicus history.  Discuss the legal weapons of choice that businesses used to control early unionizations efforts.