A Comeback for Uaw

Running head: A COMEBACK FOR UAW?

A Comeback for UAW?

Altimond Shaw

Kaplan University

MT203: Human Resources Management

Sharon Anton

February 7, 2011

A Comeback for UAW?

Introduction

We are living in an era where the cost of production is very high, and the battle continues with between employers and employees. Employees need to be better compensated and employers need to spend less. It is very hard in many instances to strike a common ground, therefore employees becomes part of a union to collectively bargain on their behalf. The matter of who win or lose pretty much depends on their bargaining power.

Review/Analysis of the Case

This writer believes that union membership might become more attractive to workers at auto companies in the future, due to the fact that it has been proven that auto workers feared well in the past and still does after retirement.

According to a recent report joining a union is good for workers because of the benefits it can attract from employers. No matter what the size of the union workforce, the union difference is clear in every state. The report says that in a typical state, union members are likely to earn 15 percent more an hour, have a 19 percent likelihood of having employer-provided health insurance and are 24 percent more likely to have an employer-sponsored retirement plan. The report clearly makes the point that protecting workers’ right to join a union—the reason for the Employee Free Choice Act—is important and would benefit the country:

These findings demonstrate that, across the states, workers who are able to bargain collectively earn more and are more likely to have benefits associated with good jobs. Taken together these data strongly suggest that better protection of workers’ right to unionize would have a substantial positive impact on the pay and benefits workers in every state. (Parks .J. 2010)

Answer to question #2

We are living in a new and challenging age where HRM cannot...