ECON 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Labor Management Relations Act Of 1947, Adjusted Gross Income, Social Cost

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25 Oct 2016

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University of Maryland

Department

Economics

Course

ECON 200

Professor

Robert Schwab

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A public good is a good that is neither excludable non-rival. A common resource is a good that is not excludable but is rival. The marginal social benefit of a public good is the sum of our marginal private benefits. We should continue to increase the quantity of a public good as long marginal social cost. A free rider is a person who receives the benefit of a good but avoids paying for it. Right to work laws are laws that prohibit agreements that require workers to join a union. States have the right to pass right to work laws under section 14(b) of the 1947 taft- 25 states have passed right to work laws or have a right to work provision in their state constitution. When they"re ready to lay eggs, they look out for other birds who made their nests.

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Unions often oppose the right to work laws. One of the arguments unions make is that right to work laws create a free-rider problem. An employee could elect not to join a union or pay union dues but benefit from union contracts that achieve higher wages or better benefits for workers. After doing a little research on the pros and cons of right to work laws, write a 200-word posting stating your opinion as to if states should allow right to work laws. Include in your posting your reasons for your position. Please write your own words.

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Scenario. You decide to go to a well-known graduate school in Philadelphia. You are granted a graduate assistantship, which means you get a contract that pays your tuition, plus a $17,000 stipend per year for living expenses. In return, you work 20 hours per week for a professor in return for tuition and health care benefits. Background. The Taft-Hartley Act (1947) allows workers to be employed at a firm without joining the union at their workplace or paying membership fees to the union. This arrangement is known as an open shop. Right-to-work laws forbid unions and employers to enter into agreements requiring employees to join a union and pay dues and fees to it in order to get or keep a job. Twenty-one states, mostly in the South and West, have right-to-work laws. Before your first paycheck arrives, two graduate student union members knock on your office door to explain to you that you are a free rider. That is, you have been hired to teach 20 hours per week at a salary of $17,000 per year plus health benefits. For this salary, you are not paying union dues, yet the union offers you protection, in the event that you should find yourself needing representation regarding your contract with the university. They are asking that you join the union for $27 per month.

A. What argument did the graduate student union present to you? That is, please explain what part of the union repays argument might possibly convince you that you should join the union. That is, why would you want to avoid being a free rider? (A free rider is a person who benefits from a good, but doesn't pay for the good).

B. Please decide whether or not you will pay the union dues. It is $27 per month for 10 months. Give an explanation for your decision.

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1.Each of these would be considered a craft union except

	a teachers union.
	a mine workers union.
	a union whose members are all engineers.
	a union whose members are all air traffic controllers.

2.âRight-to-workâ laws

	are part of the legislation that was the foundation for the growth of union organizing in the U.S.
	are required by all states under the Landrum-Griffin Act.
	require cities to pay a living wage for public works projects.
	are state laws that can prohibit union shop labor contracts.

3.The Taft-Hartley Act was passed in the ___ and the National Labor Relations (Wagner) Act was passed in the ___.

	1930s; 1930s
	1930s; 1940s
	1940s; 1930s
	1940s; 1940s

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4.Prohibiting employer retaliation against workers for union organizing is a provision in which law?

	The Landrum-Griffin Act
	The Clayton Act
	The National Labor Relations Act
	The Taft-Hartley Act

5.The 80-day cooling off period is a provision in which law?

	The Landrum-Griffin Act
	The Clayton Act
	The National Labor Relations Act
	The Taft-Hartley Act

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ECON 200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Labor Management Relations Act Of 1947, Adjusted Gross Income, Social Cost

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