Case Study: The Nurses and the Union

Paper Summary:

This paper explains that the Happy Trails nurses believe that they need to join a union to improve their benefits and working conditions and to protect themselves from management shifting from higher paid nurses to lesser paid LPNs. The paper then points out several steps that are recommended for any group forming a union. The paper also makes suggestions to management on how to handle the situation. Lastly, the paper discusses labor practices relating to unionization that must be observed to remain within the law.

Table of Contents:
The Nurses
The Management
Labor Practices

From the Paper:

"Employers can defend themselves against unionization to a degree by following rules allowing the employer to impose rules governing the solicitation of employees and the dissemination of information by and to employees. The employer may prohibit all solicitations by employees during working time and not during the employees' nonworking time, and the latter would include time when employees are on breaks. Employers also may put a stop to the distribution of literature by employees both during working time and in working areas, but the employer cannot do so not in nonwork areas, such as where the employees gather during breaks."

Sample of Sources Used:

• The basics of labor law (2007). Union Labor Law. Retrieved June 11, 2007 from http://www.unions.org/home/unionlaborlaw.php.
• How to join a union, 2007 AFL-CIO. Retrieved June 11, 2007 from http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:YfbrDFTdDXcJ:www.aflcio.org/joinaunion/how/howto.cfm+unionize+steps&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=7&gl=us.
• Ostroff, P.M. & Powell, L. (2006, February). Is the Union Knocking? BuilderNews. Retrieved June 11, 2007 from http://www.buildernewsmag.com/viewnews.pl?id=325.

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