Labor Unions and Employee-Employer Relations (Essay Sample)

Labor wars
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Labor unions are organizations usually created to counter any form of repression by the employers on the employees. Labor unions clout employees’ powers and commit to speak on behalf of the workers especially with regard to wage bargains and employees’ welfare (National Labor Relations Board). The purposes of the labor unions make them perceive enemies of the employers. In fact, many employers are never comfortable when employees join labor unions. Employers uncomfortable with labor unions have employed many strategies to overcome the influence and power of labor unions. The behavior of the management towards the election of labor union was tantamount to threat strategy, which would be the basis for setting aside the election.
Members of the NLRB should have set aside the election as requested by the labor union. It is illegal for employers to intervene in the affairs of labor unions. In that respect, the supervisor had no good reason to drive three times into the meeting of the labor union. The labor laws prohibit employers, labor unions and employees from involving in malpractices especially towards elections. In the laws, employers should not use any agents to spy on workers or issue explicit or implicit promises or threats to employees against voting for unionization (Stell, 2009). The move by the supervisor to drive into the meeting three times was in itself suspicious. The act was suspicious in that the supervisors conducted implicit spy and implicit threats to the employees not to vote for unionization. The behavior of driving into the meeting thrice was sufficient to trigger the common sense of any employee that the...