Questions tagged [labor-union]
Associations of workers in labor or trade unions.
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Are there countries where unions are banned from donating money or lobbying politicians?
In the US, unions are a major political donor and expend a lot of political capital on lobbying elected representatives. Are there countries where unions are banned from making any sort of donations ...
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How do union advocates explain worker salary and conditions improvement in countries where unions are banned? [closed]
On the one hand, unions are entirely banned in China as well as any forms of public protests. On the other hand, no one can deny the fact that Chinese workers have seen a tremendous increase in ...
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Why do industrial actions in France seem to happen more frequently, visibly, and intensely than in other EU states?
Obviously asking due to ongoing protests against pension reform in France.
This might be just a perception issue, but it seems France has a reputation for having more frequent, visible, and intense ...
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How do national union/employer negotiations work?
There are currently a number of high-profile nationwide strikes taking place (or planned) in the UK: teachers, nurses, firemen, railway workers and university lecturers, amongst others. In all cases, ...
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What stops the US rail workers from striking or quitting? [duplicate]
Now that Congress has decided on the rail agreement they're essentially saying that if the rail workers continue the strike as planned, then this is an illegal strike. Is this interpretation correct?
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What exactly does it mean for a strike to be illegal in the US?
There's been a lot of talk recently about a potential railway workers strike in the US, and Congress stepping in to prevent it. What, specifically, can be made illegal in this context?
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Are there countries that ban public sector unions, but allow private sector ones?
A new initiative is currently being proposed in California:
On Aug. 9, 2021, venture capitalist Timothy Draper filed a proposal
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Why are CLPs and Trade Unions so divided in their views on implementing PR?
At the 2021 Labour Party conference, a motion in support of the party working towards changing the UK's first-past-the-post voting system to a form of proportional representation was defeated by a ...
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What are the common features of pro-union and anti-union laws?
I often hear people talk about pro-union and anti-union laws being formulated in legislatures, but I don't really understand their differences.
What sort of provisions usually appear in these laws? ...
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Why did Amazon workers at the Bessemer, Alabama warehouse vote against forming a union? [closed]
Recently Amazon workers at a warehouse in Bessemer, Alabama voted down the union campaign. What I understand is unionization helps general workers. It generally means that the workers can bargain ...
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Which states have weakened police unions’ collective bargaining power over disciplinary issues?
Matt Yglesias, liberal political columnist for Vox, just tweeted this:
Months into the era of everyone reading White Fragility and posting Black Lives Matter memes and declaring racism a public ...
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What are the pros and cons of unionized vs non-unionized police force [duplicate]
My question is what are the advantages and disadvantages of unionized vs non-unionized police force.
This was one of the demands which was put forward by the Black Lives Movement. Below is an article ...
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What are the pros and cons of having police unions?
This is a follow up question which I asked here. There were a lot of great answers, the consensus seems to be that police unions could be outright dissolved or a new version of unions could form where ...
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Can the US President implement restrictions on police unionization
One potential for helping solve the problem of police brutality, as discussed in this question is to curb the power that police unions currently hold.
As it stands, disciplinary measures are subject ...
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Can the police unions be dissolved?
One of the demands of Black Lives Matter (BLM) is to de-fund the police. At the center of it are the police unions, since the contracts are negotiated through the police unions. My question is as ...
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Why aren't labor unions prosecuted under antitrust law?
Here's the definition of cartel from Wikipedia: "A cartel is a group of independent market participants who collude with each other in order to improve their profits and dominate the market."
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How did ending collective bargaining affect health plan costs in Wisconsin after Act 10?
I don't understand the relationship between Wisconsin's Act 10's collective bargaining and health plan costs.
In his book, "Unintimidated", former Governor Scott Walker claims several times that this ...
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Does Cenk Uygur support secret ballots in union elections?
Former Democratic Congressional candidate and liberal political talk show host Cenk Uygur talked to the Huffington Post about the unionization efforts of the employees at his digital media company The ...
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Are there any statistics on union endorsements for presidential candidates?
LA Times mentioned a few, seemingly mostly for Sanders by the big-membership numbers
On Thursday, United Teachers Los Angeles, the second-largest teacher’s union in the U.S., with roughly 34,000 ...
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What type of employees are "obliged to join a union as a condition of employment" in New York?
This is an excerpt from an article explaining why Amazon is reconsidering opening its headquarters in New York:
New York is a pro-labor city, whereas Virginia is a right-to-work state where ...
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What negatives could come with union membership being made a prerequisite for employment?
Let's say a POTUS is elected with a friendly SCOTUS and congress behind him. He hates how America's unions and labour rights have been crushed over the decades, and in response passes a very simple ...
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The role of price elasticity of demand with the bargaining power of trade unions
My economics textbook says that the more inelastic the demand for a product, the greater the scope for passing cost increases on to consumers and the stronger a trade union's bargaining power will be ...
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Why don't unions negotiate members-only contracts in right-to-work states?
How unions are generally formed is that the workers at a company take a vote, and if a majority vote for collective bargaining, then all the workers get represented by a union in negotiations with the ...
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Why can public employees unionize?
I once asked a teacher (NY city public school) whether teacher unions were a good idea. He said: "they are bad for you and good for me".
A trade union increases the power of the employees by allowing ...
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What can be done to limit the power of trade unions without hurting the right of assembly?
Some claim that trade unions are essential for ensuring workers rights. At the same time, some powerful trade unions are being blamed for using their power to extort extremely high salaries and ...
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