EMPLOYEE
MOVEMENTS
A labor is a formal union of
employee/workers that deals with
employers, representing workers in
their pursuit of justice and fairness and
in their fight for their collective or
common interests. Employees or
workers unionize because of financial
needs unfair management practices,or
social and leadership concerns.
A. Financial needs -
complaints regarding wages or
salaries and benefits given to them
by the management are the usual
reasons why employees Join labor
unions
B. Unfair management practices -
Perceptions of employees regarding unfair or
biased managerial action are also reasons why
they join mass movement. Example; of lack of
fairness in management are favoritism related
to promotion and exemption from disciplinary
action.
C. Social and leadership
concerns -
Some join unions for the
satisfaction of their need for
affiliation with a group and for
the prestige associated with
coworkers recognition of one's
leadership qualities.
Steps in union organizing
*Terry mosser, an expert union organizer, was created by
Snell and Boh-lander(2011) for the following union
organizing step
*Step 1- Employee/union contract -to explore
unionization possibilities, employees weight the
advantages and disadvantages of seking labour
representation while the Union officers gather
more data about the employees complaints, as
well as data about the employer's management
style, financial stability, policies,etc.
*Step 2- Initial
Organizational Meeting -
This is conducted to attract
more supporters and select
potential leaders among the
employees who can help the
union organizers to meet the
employee's need to explain
the means to accomplish
their goals.
Union Management
claim proposal
Negotiations
Collective 3rd Party
agreement Referral
*Step 3- Formation of in house organizing
committee -This start with identification of
employee who are ready to act as leader in
campaigning for their goals, in trying to get
the interest of the other employees to sign
an authorized card to show their willingness
to be represented beginning with their
employer.
*Step 4- If a sufficient of employees support the union
movements the organizer request for a representation
petition is filled with the NLRC asking for the holding of a
secret ballot election, to determine the employee's desire
for unionization.
*Step 5- End of union organizing - When
thesufficient number of vote is garnered, the
NLRC certifiers the union as the employees.
Contact negotiations or collective bargaining
agreement (CBA) negotiations to fallow the
certification.
The CBA process involves the following procedures:
*A. Prepare for negotiations- Data to support bargaining
proposals are collected and in an orderly manner by both
parties - the union and the union and the employer's
group.
*B. Develop strategies- Management proposals are developed and
limits of conventions are determined, while also considering the
union's goals and their possible strike plans. The unions on the
other hand tries to develop better strategies to convince the
management group to accept it's proposal.
*C. Conduct negotiations- this consist of bargaining,
analyzing proposal, resolving issues related to the
proposal and remembering to stay within their
respective bargaining zone. If no agreement is
reached at this point, a deadlock may result.
*D. Formalize agreement - after the negotiations
process, the union and management group have
to formalize their agreement.
Grievance procedure
*The grievance procedure is a formal
procedure that authorizes the union to
represent a grievance or complaint.
