BUSN 102 Chapter Notes - Chapter 12: Job Performance, Workplace Violence, Samuel Gompers
14 Apr 2016
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Union employee organizaion whose main goal is represening its members in employee- management negoiaions over job-related issues. Workers originally formed them to protect against harsh working condiions and have a say in their job. More private sector union members = workers have more power. Unions responsible for minimum wage, overime rules, workers" compensaion, severance pay, child labor, job safety regulaions, etc. Union strength among private workers has declined. 1792 shoemakers in philly met to talk about work issues of pay, hours, condiions, and job security. Crat union organizaion of skilled specialists in a paricular crat or trade. Industrial revoluion producivity increase and mass producion: problems for workers in terms of producivity expectaions, hours, wages, job security, and unemployment, low wages and high child labor rates, no minimum wage or unemployment beneits. Knights of labor irst naional labor organizaion wanted poliical power. American federaion of labor (afl) led by samuel gompers organizaion of crat unions.
