The Great Temperature Debate

Running Head: THE GREAT TEMPERATURE DEBATE

COLUMBIA COLLEGE

MGMT 375

LABOR RELATIONS

PROFESSOR: WALTER SWARTZ

BY: JEFFERY DIXON

Introduction

This paper will refer to the many different challenges that most of us may be confronted with when it comes to trying to understanding why certain court decisions are made when looking at from an employee’s point of view, which mainly includes why certain laws and regulations are related to such areas like labor and employment by using this particular case study of 3.1 for example which I will be used to conducting my findings.

After reading and examining the given situation that has been brought to my attention from the case study of 3.1, from what I have gathered I have the full understanding that the employer has let two of their employees go because they did not agree with the cold temperatures that they had to endure within their work place to where they made a choice to walk away from their jobs to protest their work conditions without notifying anyone from management to what was going on. But the section 7 of LMRA states that every employee has right to combine and protect their rights against the organization in the situations at workplace that may affect their human rights to form a union (Holley, Jennings & Wolters, 2009 p. 83). In this certain case study of 3.1, it can be pronounced that the law can be understood in certain individuals own ways when comparing how both the employees and employers see and or interprets these laws. In the following state of affairs that Drake and Keeler find themselves in is where they were doing their work as band-saw operator in machine shop and near at a large overhead door and often they felt cold and they were facing problems related to cold. So, they suggested their supervisor to close the overhead door, but the majority of worker refused their statement along with their supervisor. They protected their right and walk-out form the workplace, so...