Table illustrates the demand and supply schedules for television sets in Venezuela, a “small” nation that is unable to affect world prices. On graph paper, sketch Venezuela’s demand and supply schedules of television sets.
a. Suppose Venezuela imports TV sets at a price of $150 each. Under free trade, how many sets does Venezuela produce, consume, and import? Determine Venezuela’s consumer surplus and producer surplus.
b. Assume that Venezuela imposes a quota that limits imports to 300 TV sets. Determine the quota-induced price increase and the resulting decrease in consumer surplus. Calculate the quota’s redistributive, consumption, protective, and revenue effects. Assuming that Venezuelan import companies organize as buyers and bargain favorably with competitive foreign exporters, what is the overall welfare loss to Venezuela as a result of the quota? Suppose that foreign exporters organize as a monopoly seller. What is the overall welfare loss to Venezuela as a result of the quota?
c. Suppose that, instead of a quota, Venezuela grants its import-competing producers a subsidy of $100 per TV set. In your diagram, draw the subsidy-adjusted supply schedule for Venezuelan producers. Does the subsidy result in a rise in the price of TV sets above the free-trade level? Determine Venezuela’s production, consumption, and imports of TV sets under the subsidy. What is the total cost of the subsidy to the Venezuelan government? Of this amount, how much is transferred to Venezuelan producers in the form of a producer surplus, and how much is absorbed by higher production costs due to inefficient domestic production? Determine the overall welfare loss to Venezuela under the subsidy.
.:.
SOLUTION:
a.
Qs = 100, Qd = 800
Imports = 700.
Consumer surplus = $160,000
Producer surplus = $2500.
b.
Price rises by $100 and consumer surplus falls by $70,000.
Redistribution effect = $20,000
Consumption effect = $10,000
Protective effect = $10,000
Revenue effect = $30,000.
Overall welfare loss = $50,000.
c.
Price remains at the free trade level.
Qs = 300,
Qd = 800,
Imports = 500.
Total cost of subsidy = $30,000 of which $20,000 is absorbed by producer surplus and $10,000 is absorbed by higher domestic production costs.
Overall welfare loss = $10,000.
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Chapter Seven
Union Avoidance:
Rationale, Strategies,
and Practices
Chapter 6 examined union organizing campaigns. The chapter covered the
flow of events associated with a campaign, union strategies and tactics,
management responses, the roles of the National Labor Relations Board
(NLRB) and the National Mediation Board (NMB), and the factors influ-
encing election outcomes. At several points, the chapter emphasized that,
except in isolated instances, most employers strongly resist organizing
drives.
In this chapter we explore in greater depth the reasons for employers’
resistance, strategies that a growing number of employers are using to
create and maintai ...
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191
Chapter Seven
Union Avoidance:
Rationale, Strategies,
and Practices
Chapter 6 examined union organizing campaigns. The chapter covered the
flow of events associated with a campaign, union strategies and tactics,
management responses, the roles of the National Labor Relations Board
(NLRB) and the National Mediation Board (NMB), and the factors influ-
encing election outcomes. At several points, the chapter emphasized that,
except in isolated instances, most employers strongly resist organizing
drives.
In this chapter we explore in greater depth the reasons for employers’
resistance, strategies that a growing number of employers are using to
create and maintain a “union-free” employment environment, tactics
that they use to prevent union success in organizing, the role of decerti-
fications in deunionizing partially unionized employers, and the effects
of organizational and job structuring on limiting unionization within
employers.
As you study this chapter, consider the following questions:
1. Are employers increasing or decreasing their opposition to unions in
the current era? What evidence is there to support your position?
2. What are the economic effects of initial unionization on the employer?
3. What additional activities appear necessary for an employer to avoid
unionization?
4. If an employer faces an organizing campaign, what components and
process are included in a typical employer response?
5. What is a decertification election, and how does it differ from other
NLRB elections?
192 Labor Relations
HISTORICAL OVERVIEW
The business and labor history of the United States, going back to the Phil-
adelphia Cordwainers, is replete with examples of employer resistance to
unionization. The fundamental differences in philosophies, goals, and val-
ues of capitalists and trade unionists make this resistance inevitable and
make employer accommodation after unionization sometimes difficult.
Capitalistic and Trade Union Philosophies
Capitalists (either entrepreneurs or investor-owned corporations) use their
resources to create mechanisms (productive processes) that will enable
them to develop and sell goods and services in the marketplace at prices
great enough to yield a higher return than that from other alternative
investments. Employees are hired to produce the output. Employees are
generally free to leave at any time, and capitalists would like to have the
freedom to hire or terminate them, individually or collectively, as neces-
sary to achieve their business purposes. Capitalists assume the risk that
they will not be able to realize a positive yield from their investments and
ideas. If they fail, their investments will be diminished or lost. They also
expect that if they are successful in the marketplace (i.e., their returns are
greater than they might realize through riskless investment) they will be
able to keep these returns as a reward for t ...
ECON 301 Week 5 DiscussionsGroup 2 US Trade PolicySummaryFor.docxjack60216
ECON 301 Week 5 Discussions
Group 2 US Trade Policy
Summary
For our group project we have decided to research, analyze, and formulate an argument on the World Trade Organization (WTO) in regards to the US Trade Policy. In our paper we have discussed what WTO stands for and the goal of this organization. We have also addressed the latest form of trade negotiations among the WTO membership – Doha Development Round and the controversial topics of protectionism and free trade. Among the research we have performed, we as a group have come to a conclusion that we support this organization. Although there are incomplete developments that still need to be addressed, we continue to support this organization because of the fact that numerous nations come together in order to reform these conflicts.
Questions:
1. What makes free trade a better option than protectionism for the economic situation in the US?
2. What consequences would the WTO face if they acted unethically given their power?
Group 3 US Fiscal Policy
Fiscal Policy refers to the practice of monitoring spending levels and tax rates to try and influence our economy. Before the Great Depression, which started in the late twenties, our government had a hands off approach to the economy or a laissez-faire approach. After the Second World War it was deemed necessary for the government to become involved in our economy. (Heakal, Reem) They decided this would be necessary in order to attempt to influence unemployment, the business cycle and inflation. Of course there are many different ideas on the best approach and way to accomplish this.
The government takes initiative in trying to regulate unemployment, unemployment benefits, and taxation. They do this through the use of what is known as automatic stabilizers, which are programs and policies meant to balance fluctuations in the economy. During a recession, automatic stabilizers are expanded, and during an economic boom, the automatic stabilizers are reduced. An example of this would be unemployment benefits (David Weil). When there is a recession and unemployment is high, the government spends more money on unemployment benefits, whereas when the unemployment is low, the government spends less money on unemployment benefits. According to William J. Carrington, an analyst of the Congressional budget office, some of the fiscal policies used to reduce unemployment include household assistance (reducing employees’ taxes, increased unemployment insurance expenditures, and more refundable tax), business assistance, and financial aid to the states. Carrington also shows that to reduce unemployment, unemployment benefit policies must be modified such as an extension to the duration of benefits, reemployment bonuses, and offering wage insurance. Fiscal Policy can also be used to influence new ideas like those in alternative energies.
The United States government often tries to finds ways to stimulate the economy while looking towards its future. T ...
191Chapter Seven Union Avoidance Rationale, Strat.docxjoyjonna282
191
Chapter Seven
Union Avoidance:
Rationale, Strategies,
and Practices
Chapter 6 examined union organizing campaigns. The chapter covered the
flow of events associated with a campaign, union strategies and tactics,
management responses, the roles of the National Labor Relations Board
(NLRB) and the National Mediation Board (NMB), and the factors influ-
encing election outcomes. At several points, the chapter emphasized that,
except in isolated instances, most employers strongly resist organizing
drives.
In this chapter we explore in greater depth the reasons for employers’
resistance, strategies that a growing number of employers are using to
create and maintain a “union-free” employment environment, tactics
that they use to prevent union success in organizing, the role of decerti-
fications in deunionizing partially unionized employers, and the effects
of organizational and job structuring on limiting unionization within
employers.
As you study this chapter, consider the following questions:
1. Are employers increasing or decreasing their opposition to unions in
the current era? What evidence is there to support your position?
2. What are the economic effects of initial unionization on the employer?
3. What additional activities appear necessary for an employer to avoid
unionization?
4. If an employer faces an organizing campaign, what components and
process are included in a typical employer response?
5. What is a decertification election, and how does it differ from other
NLRB elections?
192 Labor Relations
HISTORICAL OVERVIEW
The business and labor history of the United States, going back to the Phil-
adelphia Cordwainers, is replete with examples of employer resistance to
unionization. The fundamental differences in philosophies, goals, and val-
ues of capitalists and trade unionists make this resistance inevitable and
make employer accommodation after unionization sometimes difficult.
Capitalistic and Trade Union Philosophies
Capitalists (either entrepreneurs or investor-owned corporations) use their
resources to create mechanisms (productive processes) that will enable
them to develop and sell goods and services in the marketplace at prices
great enough to yield a higher return than that from other alternative
investments. Employees are hired to produce the output. Employees are
generally free to leave at any time, and capitalists would like to have the
freedom to hire or terminate them, individually or collectively, as neces-
sary to achieve their business purposes. Capitalists assume the risk that
they will not be able to realize a positive yield from their investments and
ideas. If they fail, their investments will be diminished or lost. They also
expect that if they are successful in the marketplace (i.e., their returns are
greater than they might realize through riskless investment) they will be
able to keep these returns as a reward for t ...
ECON 301 Week 5 DiscussionsGroup 2 US Trade PolicySummaryFor.docxjack60216
ECON 301 Week 5 Discussions
Group 2 US Trade Policy
Summary
For our group project we have decided to research, analyze, and formulate an argument on the World Trade Organization (WTO) in regards to the US Trade Policy. In our paper we have discussed what WTO stands for and the goal of this organization. We have also addressed the latest form of trade negotiations among the WTO membership – Doha Development Round and the controversial topics of protectionism and free trade. Among the research we have performed, we as a group have come to a conclusion that we support this organization. Although there are incomplete developments that still need to be addressed, we continue to support this organization because of the fact that numerous nations come together in order to reform these conflicts.
Questions:
1. What makes free trade a better option than protectionism for the economic situation in the US?
2. What consequences would the WTO face if they acted unethically given their power?
Group 3 US Fiscal Policy
Fiscal Policy refers to the practice of monitoring spending levels and tax rates to try and influence our economy. Before the Great Depression, which started in the late twenties, our government had a hands off approach to the economy or a laissez-faire approach. After the Second World War it was deemed necessary for the government to become involved in our economy. (Heakal, Reem) They decided this would be necessary in order to attempt to influence unemployment, the business cycle and inflation. Of course there are many different ideas on the best approach and way to accomplish this.
The government takes initiative in trying to regulate unemployment, unemployment benefits, and taxation. They do this through the use of what is known as automatic stabilizers, which are programs and policies meant to balance fluctuations in the economy. During a recession, automatic stabilizers are expanded, and during an economic boom, the automatic stabilizers are reduced. An example of this would be unemployment benefits (David Weil). When there is a recession and unemployment is high, the government spends more money on unemployment benefits, whereas when the unemployment is low, the government spends less money on unemployment benefits. According to William J. Carrington, an analyst of the Congressional budget office, some of the fiscal policies used to reduce unemployment include household assistance (reducing employees’ taxes, increased unemployment insurance expenditures, and more refundable tax), business assistance, and financial aid to the states. Carrington also shows that to reduce unemployment, unemployment benefit policies must be modified such as an extension to the duration of benefits, reemployment bonuses, and offering wage insurance. Fiscal Policy can also be used to influence new ideas like those in alternative energies.
The United States government often tries to finds ways to stimulate the economy while looking towards its future. T ...
The changes required in the IT project plan for Telecomm Ltd would.docxmattinsonjanel
The changes required in the IT project plan for Telecomm Ltd would entail specific variation in the platforms used in the initial implementation plan. Initially, the three projects that were planned for implementation included; the installation of business intelligence platform, the implementation of Statistical Analysis System software technology, and the creation of an effectively network infrastructure. In this case, the changes would include an addition of an ERP software to ensure the performance of the workforce within the Telecomms Ltd employees.
ERP is an effectively coordinated information technology system that would ensure the company’s performance is enhanced. To understand how the implementation of a coordinated IT system offers a competitive advantage of a firm, it is essential to acknowledge three core reasons for the failure of information technology related projects as commonly cited by IT managers. In this case, IT managers cite the three reasons as; poor planning or management, change in business objectives and goals during the implementation process of a project, and lack of proper management support completion (Houston, 2011). Also, in the majority of completed projects, technology is usually deployed in a vacuum; hence users resist it. The implementation of coordinated information technology systems, such as ERP would provide an ultimate solution to the three reasons for failure, and thus would give Telecomms Ltd a competitive advantage in the already competitive market. Since the implementation of systems like ERP directly provides solution to common problems that act as drawbacks regarding the competitiveness of firm, it is, therefore, evident that its use place Telecomms Ltd above its rival companies in the market share (Wallace & Kremzar, 2001).
The use ERP, which is a reliable coordinated IT system entails three distinctive implementation strategies that a firm can choose depending on its specific needs. The changes in the projects would be as follows: The three implementation strategies are independently capable of providing a relatively competitive advantage for many companies. These strategies are: big bang, phased rollout, and parallel adoption. In the big bang implementation strategy, happens in a single instance, whereby all the users are moved to a new system on a designated (Wallace & Kremzar, 2001). The phased rollout implementation on the other hand usually involves a changeover in several phases, and it is executed in an extended period. In this case, the users move onto the new system in a series of steps (Houston, 2011). Lastly, the parallel adoption implementation strategy allows both legacy and the new ERP system to run at the same time. It is also essential to note that users in this strategy get to learn the new system while still working on the old system (Wallace & Kremzar, 2001). The three strategies effectively change the information system of Telecomms Ltd tremendously such that it positiv ...
The Catholic University of America Metropolitan School of .docxmattinsonjanel
The Catholic University of America
Metropolitan School of Professional Studies
Course Syllabus
THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA
Metropolitan School of Professional Studies
MBU 514 and MBU 315 Leadership Foundations
Fall 2015
Credits: 3
Classroom: Online
Dates: August 31, 2015 to December 14, 2015
Instructor:
Dr. Jacquie Hamp
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @drjacquie
Telephone: 202 215 8117 cell
Office Hours: By Appointment
Dr. Jacquie Hamp is an educator, coach and consultant with particular expertise in leadership development, organizational development and human resources development strategy. From 2006 to 2015 she held the position as the Senior Director of Leadership Development for Goodwill Industries International in Rockville, Maryland. Dr. Hamp was responsible for the design and execution of leadership development programs and activities for all levels of the 4 billion dollar social enterprise network of Goodwill Industries across 165 independent local agencies. Jacquie is also a part time Associate Professor at George Washington University teaching at the graduate level and she is an adjunct professor at Catholic University of America, teaching leadership theory in the Masters Program.
Jacquie has a Master of Science degree in Human Resources Development Administration from Barry University. She holds a Doctor of Education degree in Human and Organizational Learning from the Graduate School of Education and Human Development at George Washington University. Jacquie has received a certificate in Executive Coaching from Georgetown University, a certificate in the Practice of Teaching Leadership from Harvard University and holds the national certification of Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR).
Jacquie has been invited to speak at conferences in the United States and the United Kingdom on the topic of how women learn through transformative experiences and techniques for effective leadership development in the social enterprise sector. She is a member of the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM) and the International Leadership Association (ILA). In 2011 Dr. Hamp was awarded the Strategic Alignment Award by the Human Resources Leadership Association of Washington DC for her work in the redesign of the Goodwill Industries International leadership programs in order to meet the strategic goals of the organization.
Course Description: Surveys, compares, and contrasts contemporary theories of leadership, providing students the opportunity to assess their own leadership competencies and how they fit in with models of leadership. Students also discuss current literature, media coverage, and case studies on leadership issues.
Instructional Methods This course is based on the following adult learning concepts:
1. Learning is done by the learners, who are encouraged to achieve the overall course objectives through individual learning styles that meet their personal learning needs. ...
The Case of Frank and Judy. During the past few years Frank an.docxmattinsonjanel
The Case of Frank and Judy.
During the past few years Frank and Judy have experienced many conflicts in their marriage. Although they have made attempts to resolve their problems by themselves, they have finally decided to seek the help of a professional marriage counselor. Even though they have been thinking about divorce with increasing frequency, they still have some hope that they can achieve a satisfactory marriage.
Three couples counselors, each holding a different set of values pertaining to marriage and the family, describe their approach to working with Frank and Judy. As you read these responses, think about the degree to which each represents what you might say and do if you were counseling this couple.
· Counselor A. This counselor believes it is not her place to bring her values pertaining to the family into the sessions. She is fully aware of her biases regarding marriage and divorce, but she does not impose them or expose them in all cases. Her primary interest is to help Frank and Judy discover what is best for them as individuals 459460and as a couple. She sees it as unethical to push her clients toward a definite course of action, and she lets them know that her job is to help them be honest with themselves.
·
· What are your reactions to this counselor's approach?
· ▪ What values of yours could interfere with your work with Frank and Judy?
Counselor B. This counselor has been married three times herself. Although she believes in marriage, she is quick to maintain that far too many couples stay in their marriages and suffer unnecessarily. She explores with Judy and Frank the conflicts that they bring to the sessions. The counselor's interventions are leading them in the direction of divorce as the desired course of action, especially after they express this as an option. She suggests a trial separation and states her willingness to counsel them individually, with some joint sessions. When Frank brings up his guilt and reluctance to divorce because of the welfare of the children, the counselor confronts him with the harm that is being done to them by a destructive marriage. She tells him that it is too much of a burden to put on the children to keep the family together.
· ▪ What, if any, ethical issues do you see in this case? Is this counselor exposing or imposing her values?
· ▪ Do you think this person should be a marriage counselor, given her bias?
· ▪ What interventions made by the counselor do you agree with? What are your areas of disagreement?
Counselor C. At the first session this counselor states his belief in the preservation of marriage and the family. He believes that many couples give up too soon in the face of difficulty. He says that most couples have unrealistically high expectations of what constitutes a “happy marriage.” The counselor lets it be known that his experience continues to teach him that divorce rarely solves any problems but instead creates new problems that are often worse. The counsel ...
The Case of MikeChapter 5 • Common Theoretical Counseling Perspe.docxmattinsonjanel
The Case of Mike
Chapter 5 • Common Theoretical Counseling Perspectives 135
Mike is a 20-year-old male who has just recently been released from jail. Mike is technically on probation for car theft, though he has been involved in crime to a much greater extent. Mike has been identified as a cocaine user and has been suspected, though not convicted, for dealing cocaine. Mike has been tested for drugs by his probation department and was found positive for cocaine. The county has mandated that Mike receive drug counseling but the drug counselor has referred Mike to your office because the drug counselor suspects that Mike has issues beyond simple drug addiction. In fact, the drug counselor’s notes suggest that Mike has Narcissistic personality disorder. Mike seems to have little regard for the feelings of others. Coupled with this is his complete sensitivity to the comments of others. In fact, his prior fiancé has broken off her relationship with him due to what she calls his “constant need for admiration and attention. He is completely self-centered.” After talking with Mike, you quickly find that he has no close friends. As he talks about people who have been close to him, he discounts them for one imperfection or another. These imperfections are all considered severe enough to warrant dismissing the person entirely. Mike makes a point of noting how many have betrayed their loyalty to him or have otherwise failed to give him the credit that he deserves. When asked about getting caught in the auto theft, he remarks that “well my dumb partner got me out of a hot situation by driving me out in a stolen get-a-way car.” (Word on the street has it that Mike was involved in a sour drug deal and was unlikely to have made it out alive if not for his partner.) Mike adds, “you know, I plan everything out perfectly, but you just cannot rely on anybody . . . if you want it done right, do it yourself.” Mike recently has been involved with another woman (unknown to his prior fiancé) who has become pregnant. When she told Mike he said “tough, you can go get an abortionor something, it isn’t like we were in love or something.” Then he laughed at her and toldher to go find some other guy who would shack up with her. Incidentally, Mike is a very attractive man and he likes to point that out on occasion. “Yeah, I was going to be a male model in L. A.,but my agent did not know what he was doing . . . could never get things settled out right . . . so I had to fire him.” Mike is very popular with women and has had a constant string of failed relationships due to what he calls “their inability to keep things exciting.” As Mike puts it “hey, I am too smart for this stuff. These people around me, they don’t deserve the good dummies. But me, well I know how to run things and get over on people. And I am not about to let these dummies get in my way. I got it all figured out . . . see?”
Effective Small Business Management: An Entrepreneurial Approach 9th Edition, 2009 IS ...
THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATIONNovember 8, 2002 -- vol. 49, .docxmattinsonjanel
THE CHRONICLE OF HIGHER EDUCATION
November 8, 2002 -- vol. 49, no. 11, p. B7
The Dangerous Myth of Grade Inflation
By Alfie Kohn
Grade inflation got started ... in the late '60s and early '70s.... The grades that faculty members now give ... deserve to be a scandal.
--Professor Harvey Mansfield, Harvard University, 2001
Grades A and B are sometimes given too readily -- Grade A for work of no very high merit, and Grade B for work not far above mediocrity. ... One of the chief obstacles to raising the standards of the degree is the readiness with which insincere students gain passable grades by sham work.
--Report of the Committee on Raising the Standard, Harvard University, 1894
Complaints about grade inflation have been around for a very long time. Every so often a fresh flurry of publicity pushes the issue to the foreground again, the latest example being a series of articles in The Boston Globe last year that disclosed -- in a tone normally reserved for the discovery of entrenched corruption in state government -- that a lot of students at Harvard were receiving A's and being graduated with honors.
The fact that people were offering the same complaints more than a century ago puts the latest bout of harrumphing in perspective, not unlike those quotations about the disgraceful values of the younger generation that turn out to be hundreds of years old. The long history of indignation also pretty well derails any attempts to place the blame for higher grades on a residue of bleeding-heart liberal professors hired in the '60s. (Unless, of course, there was a similar countercultural phenomenon in the 1860s.)
Yet on campuses across America today, academe's usual requirements for supporting data and reasoned analysis have been suspended for some reason where this issue is concerned. It is largely accepted on faith that grade inflation -- an upward shift in students' grade-point averages without a similar rise in achievement -- exists, and that it is a bad thing. Meanwhile, the truly substantive issues surrounding grades and motivation have been obscured or ignored.
The fact is that it is hard to substantiate even the simple claim that grades have been rising. Depending on the time period we're talking about, that claim may well be false. In their book When Hope and Fear Collide (Jossey-Bass, 1998), Arthur Levine and Jeanette Cureton tell us that more undergraduates in 1993 reported receiving A's (and fewer reported receiving grades of C or below) compared with their counterparts in 1969 and 1976 surveys. Unfortunately, self-reports are notoriously unreliable, and the numbers become even more dubious when only a self-selected, and possibly unrepresentative, segment bothers to return the questionnaires. (One out of three failed to do so in 1993; no information is offered about the return rates in the earlier surveys.)
To get a more accurate picture of whether grades have changed over the years, one needs to look at official student tran ...
The chart is a guide rather than an absolute – feel free to modify.docxmattinsonjanel
The chart is a guide rather than an absolute – feel free to modify or adjust it as need to fit the specific ideas that you are developing.
Area: SALES
Specific Change Plans for Functional Areas
Capability Being Addressed
This can be pulled from the strategic proposal recommended in Part 2B
How do the recommended changes (details provided below) help improve the capability?
This is a logic "double check". Be sure you can show how the changes recommended below improve the capability and help address the product and market focus and add to accomplishment of the value proposition
Details of Specific Changes:
Proposed Changes in Resources
Proposed Changes to Management
Preferences
Proposed Changes to Organizational
Processes
Detailed Change Plans
(Lay out here the specifics of all recommended changes for this area. Modify the layout as necessary to account for the changes being recommended)
Proposed Change
Timing
Costs
On going impact on budget
On going impact on revenue
Wiki
Template
Part-‐2:
Gaps,
Issues
and
New
Strategy
BUSI
4940
–
Business
Policy
1
THE ENVIRONMENT/INDUSTRY
1. Drivers of change
Key drivers of change begin with the availability of substitute products. Many
other
companies can easily provide a substitute and the firm will have to find a way to
stand
out among them. Next would be the ability to differentiate yourself among other
firms
that pose a threat in the industry. Last, the political sector. The the federal, state,
and local governments could all shape the way healthcare is everywhere.
2. Key survival factors
Key survival factors would include making the firm stand out above the rest in the
industry and creating a name for itself. Second would be making sure there is a
broad
network of providers available for the customers. Giving the customer options
will
make the customer happy. Providing excellent customer service is key to any
firm in
the industry.
3. Product/Market and Value Proposition possibilities
Maintaining the use of heavy discounts will keep Careington in the competitive
market. They also concentrate on constantly innovating technology to make
sure that
they have the latest devices to offer their customers. To have high value proposition, Careington
will need to show their costumers that they can believe in them and trust them to
do the right thing. Showing the customers that they can always be on top of the
latest
technology and new age products will help build trust with the customers.
STRATEGY OF THE FIRM
1. Goals
Striving to promote the health and well being of their clients by continuing to
provide
low cost health care solutions. A lot of this concentration is on clients that cannot
afford health care very easily or that a ...
The Challenge of Choosing FoodFor this forum, please read http.docxmattinsonjanel
The Challenge of Choosing Food:
For this forum, please read: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/no-food-is-healthy-not-even-kale/2016/01/15/4a5c2d24-ba52-11e5-829c-26ffb874a18d_story.html?postshare=3401453180639248&tid=ss_fb-bottom
The article is from the Washington Post, January 17, 2016, by Michael Ruhlmanentitled: "No Food is Healthy, Not even Kale."
Based on your reading in the textbook share the following information with your classmates:
(1) To what degree to you agree with article, "No Food is Healthy, Not even Kale." Do semantics count? Should we focus on foods that are described as nourishing (nutrient-dense) instead of foods described as healthy because the word "healthy" is a "bankrupt" word? Explain and refer to information from the article.
(2) Based on the article and the textbook reading (review pages 9-30), how challenging is it for you to choose nutritious foods that promote health? What factors drive your food choices? Explain to your classmates.
(3) What do you think is the biggest concern we face health-wise in the US today?
(4) What are some obstacles as to why we may not be eating as well as we would like to?
Please complete all questions, if you have any question let me knowv
Test file, (Do not modify it)
// $> javac -cp .:junit-cs211.jar ProperQueueTests.java #compile
// $> java -cp .:junit-cs211.jar ProperQueueTests #run tests
//
// On windows replace : with ; (colon with semicolon)
// $> javac -cp .;junit-cs211.jar ProperQueueTests.java #compile
// $> java -cp .;junit-cs211.jar ProperQueueTests #run tests
import org.junit.*;
import static org.junit.Assert.*;
import java.util.*;
public class ProperQueueTests {
public static void main(String args[]){
org.junit.runner.JUnitCore.main("ProperQueueTests");
}
/*
building queues:
- build small empty queue. (2)
- build larger empty queue. (11)
- build length-zero queue. (0)
*/
@Test(timeout=1000) public void ProperQueue_makeQueue_1(){
String expected = "";
ProperQueue q = new ProperQueue(2);
String actual = q.toString();
assertEquals(2, q.getCapacity());
assertEquals(expected, actual);
}
@Test(timeout=1000) public void ProperQueue_makeQueue_2(){
String expected = "";
ProperQueue q = new ProperQueue(11);
String actual = q.toString();
assertEquals(11, q.getCapacity());
assertEquals(expected, actual);
}
@Test(timeout=1000) public void Queue_makeQueue_3(){
String expected = "";
ProperQueue q = new ProperQueue(0);
String actual = q.toString();
assertEquals(0, q.getCapacity());
assertEquals(expected, actual);
}
/*
add/offer tests.
- add a single value to a short queue.
- fill up a small queue.
- over-add to a queue and witness it struggle.
- add many but don't finish filling a queue.
- make size-zero queue, adds fail, check it's still empty.
*/
@Test(timeout=1000) public void ProperQueue_add_1(){
String expecte ...
The Civil Rights Movement
Dr. James Patterson
Black Civil Rights Movement
Basic denial of civil rights (review)
Segregation in society
Inferior schools
Job discrimination
Political disenfranchisement
Over ½ lived below poverty level
Unemployment double national ave.
Ghettoes: gangs, drugs, substandard housing, crime
Early Victories
WWII egalitarianism and backlash against German racism
Jackie Robinson integrated professional baseball—1947
Desegregation of the armed forces ordered by president Truman—1948
Marian Anderson performed at the New York Metropolitan Opera House—1955
Increased interest in civil rights a result of Cold War propaganda
Brown v. Board of Education
1954 – Topeka, Kansas
Linda Brown: filed suit to attend a neighborhood school
“Separate educational institutions are inherently unequal.”
Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson
Court says: integrate "with all deliberate speed.”
What did this mean?
Linda Brown and Family
Circumvention of Brown v. Board of Education Ruling
White supremacist parents feared racial mixing and attempted to block black enrollment.
Ignored the integration issue
Token integration
Segregation through standardized placement tests
Segregation through private schools
Stalling through legal action
By 1964, 10 years after the Brown case, only 1% of black children attended truly integrated schools.
Little Rock High School
1957 courts order integration in Little Rock
9 black students enrolled.
Governor called out militia to block it.
Mobs replaced militia after recall.
Eisenhower ordered federal troops to protect the students.
Daily harassment
Courageous black students persevered.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
1955--Rosa Parks arrested for not giving up seat to white man
Boycott of bus system led by Martin Luther King, Jr.:
Walking, church busses, car pools, bicycles
Bus lines caught in the middle
Rosa Parks being Booked
Supreme Court ruled bus companies must integrate.
Inspired other protests:
Sit-ins, wade-ins, kneel-ins
Woolworth’s lunch counter
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Non-Violent
Influenced by Ghandi
“The blood may flow, but it must be our blood, not that of the white man.”
“Lord, we ain’t what we oughta be. We ain’t what we wanna be. We ain’t what we gonna be. But thank God, we ain’t what we was.”
Freedom Riders
Activists traveled from city to city to ignite the protest.
Bull Conner:
in Montgomery
Dogs
Whips
Water hoses
Cattle prods
Television
Public backlash
Civil Rights March (AL. 1965)
1963 - Washington, D.C. "I have a Dream“—200,000 Attended
Civil Rights Legislation
1964 - Civil Rights Act
1964 - 24th Amendment
Abolished Poll Tax
1965 Voting Rights Act
Affirmative action
Int ...
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Sir Winston Churchill > Speeches & Quotations > Speeches
June 18, 1940
House of Commons
I spoke the other day of the colossal military disaster which occurred when the French High Command
failed to withdraw the northern Armies from Belgium at the moment when they knew that the French front
was decisively broken at Sedan and on the Meuse. This delay entailed the loss of fifteen or sixteen French
divisions and threw out of action for the critical period the whole of the British Expeditionary Force. Our
Army and 120,000 French troops were indeed rescued by the British Navy from Dunkirk but only with the
loss of their cannon, vehicles and modern equipment. This loss inevitably took some weeks to repair, and in
the first two of those weeks the battle in France has been lost. When we consider the heroic resistance
made by the French Army against heavy odds in this battle, the enormous losses inflicted upon the enemy
and the evident exhaustion of the enemy, it may well be the thought that these 25 divisions of the
best-trained and best-equipped troops might have turned the scale. However, General Weygand had to fight
without them. Only three British divisions or their equivalent were able to stand in the line with their French
comrades. They have suffered severely, but they have fought well. We sent every man we could to France
as fast as we could re-equip and transport their formations.
I am not reciting these facts for the purpose of recrimination. That I judge to be utterly futile and even
harmful. We cannot afford it. I recite them in order to explain why it was we did not have, as we could have
had, between twelve and fourteen British divisions fighting in the line in this great battle instead of only
three. Now I put all this aside. I put it on the shelf, from which the historians, when they have time, will
select their documents to tell their stories. We have to think of the future and not of the past. This also
applies in a small way to our own affairs at home. There are many who would hold an inquest in the House
of Commons on the conduct of the Governments-and of Parliaments, for they are in it, too-during the years
which led up to this catastrophe. They seek to indict those who were responsible for the guidance of our
affairs. This also would be a foolish and pernicious process. There are too many in it. Let each man search
his conscience and search his speeches. I frequently search mine.
Of this I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we
have lost the future. Therefore, I cannot accept the drawing of any distinctions between Members of the
present Government. It was formed at a moment of crisis in order to unite a ...
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The Categorical Imperative (selections taken from The Foundations of the Metaphysics of
Morals)
Preface
As my concern here is with moral philosophy, I limit the question suggested to this:
Whether it is not of the utmost necessity to construct a pure thing which is only empirical and
which belongs to anthropology? for that such a philosophy must be possible is evident from the
common idea of duty and of the moral laws. Everyone must admit that if a law is to have moral
force, i.e., to be the basis of an obligation, it must carry with it absolute necessity; that, for
example, the precept, "Thou shalt not lie," is not valid for men alone, as if other rational beings
had no need to observe it; and so with all the other moral laws properly so called; that, therefore,
the basis of obligation must not be sought in the nature of man, or in the circumstances in the
world in which he is placed, but a priori simply in the conception of pure reason; and although
any other precept which is founded on principles of mere experience may be in certain respects
universal, yet in as far as it rests even in the least degree on an empirical basis, perhaps only as to
a motive, such a precept, while it may be a practical rule, can never be called a moral law…
What is the “Good Will?”
NOTHING can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called
good, without qualification, except a good will. Intelligence, wit, judgement, and the other
talents of the mind, however they may be named, or courage, resolution, perseverance, as
qualities of temperament, are undoubtedly good and desirable in many respects; but these gifts of
nature may also become extremely bad and mischievous if the will which is to make use of them,
and which, therefore, constitutes what is called character, is not good. It is the same with the
gifts of fortune. Power, riches, honour, even health, and the general well-being and contentment
with one's condition which is called happiness, inspire pride, and often presumption, if there is
not a good will to correct the influence of these on the mind, and with this also to rectify the
whole principle of acting and adapt it to its end. The sight of a being who is not adorned with a
single feature of a pure and good will, enjoying unbroken prosperity, can never give pleasure to
an impartial rational spectator. Thus a good will appears to constitute the indispensable condition
even of being worthy of happiness.
There are even some qualities which are of service to this good will itself and may
facilitate its action, yet which have no intrinsic unconditional value, but always presuppose a
good will, and this qualifies the esteem that we justly have for them and does not permit us to
regard them as absolutely good. Moderation in the affections and passions, self-control, and calm
deliberation are not only good in many respects, but even seem to constitute part of th ...
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The cave represents how we are trained to think, fell or act according to society, following our own way and not the way intended for us. The shadows are merely a reflection of what they perceived to be reality instead of an illusion. The prisoners are trapped in society, each one of us who choose to stay trapped in our own way. The man that escapes is the person who no longer is a slave to society and can see the difference between reality and illusion. The day light can be compared to God’s will. When you don’t follow the plan that has been laid out for you by God, than you are trapped and you will only see illusions or reflections of reality. Escaping and choosing to go into “the light,” or following the will of God, only then can you be set free from your prison.
When looking at a piece of art, a painting, for example, at first glance the painting can appear to be something other what it is intended to be (reality). This reminds me of those pictures that everyone sees on social media, the picture that has circles all over it. When you look at the picture it appears that the circles are moving, but in reality the circles do not move at all. So art can more or less be perceived as more of an illusion.
An example of the picture can be seen here http://www.dailyhaha.com/_pics/movie_circles_illusion.jpg
Accepting illusion as reality happens a lot more times than we probably think. Anything that we see on T.V., Social Media, internet, or even dating, can all be perceived as an illusion at some point. Take dating for example; how a person acts on a date is most likely not how they would act to someone they have known for a while (illusion). Not all people pretend to be something different but in many cases they do. Recognizing what you failed to see after the initial first date and thereafter is how you would know what you first seen was just simply an illusion and therefore not reality, unless of course in reality they are simply a fake person I suppose. Following this pattern makes you realize most people do not appear to be who they are. A good “first impression” doesn’t necessarily mean much when thinking about illusions vs reality, because that’s all the “first impression” is in fact more or less an illusion.
People live in shadows because they fail to recognize reality and choose to continue to believe in illusions. With the growth of Social media, more and more people are falling victim to what things appear to be and will stay in the dark (cave). We as a society are imprisoned by what we see and read through news channels and social media. We will believe anything that comes across CNN or any news station (not fox news though) and let them make up our mind for us. People comment on any shooting victims and assume the cop was in the wrong and is racist, in reality that is not always the case.
It’s interesting to think in terms of appearance vs reality when viewing not only art, but the world. Not taking things for what they appear to ...
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The Case: Superior Foods Corporation Faces a Challenge
On his way to the plant office, Jason Starnes passed by the production line where hundreds of gloved, uniformed workers were packing sausages and processed meats for shipment to grocery stores around the world.
Jason's company, Superior Foods Corporation, based in Wichita, Kansas, employed 30,000 people in eight countries and had beef and pork processing plants in Arkansas, California, Milwaukee, and Nebraska City. Since a landmark United States–Japan trade agreement signed in 1988, markets had opened up for major exports of American beef, now representing 10 percent of U.S. production. Products called “variety meats”—including intestines, hearts, brains, and tongues—were very much in demand for export to international markets.
Jason was in Nebraska City to talk with the plant manager, Ben Schroeder, about the U.S. outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease) and its impact on the plant. On December 23, 2011, the U.S. Department of Agriculture had announced that bovine spongiform encephalopathy had been discovered in a Holstein cow in Washington State. The global reaction was swift: Seven countries imposed either total or partial bans on the importation of U.S. beef, and thousands of people were chatting about it on blogs and social networking sites. Superior had moved quickly to intercept a container load of frozen Asian-bound beef from its shipping port in Los Angeles, and all other shipments were on hold.
After walking into Ben's office, Jason sat down across from him and said, “Ben, your plant has been a top producer of variety meats for Superior, and we have appreciated all your hard work out here. Unfortunately, it looks like we need to limit production for a while—at least three months, or until the bans get relaxed. I know Senator Nelson is working hard to get the bans lifted. In the meantime, we need to shut down production and lay off about 25 percent of your workers. I know it is going to be difficult, and I'm hoping we can work out a way to communicate this to your employees.”
...
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The Case:
You can choose to discuss relativism in view of one of the following two cases:
The Case:
· Start by giving a brief explanation of relativism (200 words).
· what is the difference between ethical & cultural relativism. Then discuss, in view of relativism, how we can reconcile the apparent conflict between the need for enforcement of human rights standards with the need for protection of cultural diversity. (400 words).
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The Catholic University of America
Metropolitan School of Professional Studies
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THE CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY OF AMERICA
Metropolitan School of Professional Studies
MBU 514 and MBU 315 Leadership Foundations
Fall 2015
Credits: 3
Classroom: Online
Dates: August 31, 2015 to December 14, 2015
Instructor:
Dr. Jacquie Hamp
Email: [email protected]
Twitter: @drjacquie
Telephone: 202 215 8117 cell
Office Hours: By Appointment
Dr. Jacquie Hamp is an educator, coach and consultant with particular expertise in leadership development, organizational development and human resources development strategy. From 2006 to 2015 she held the position as the Senior Director of Leadership Development for Goodwill Industries International in Rockville, Maryland. Dr. Hamp was responsible for the design and execution of leadership development programs and activities for all levels of the 4 billion dollar social enterprise network of Goodwill Industries across 165 independent local agencies. Jacquie is also a part time Associate Professor at George Washington University teaching at the graduate level and she is an adjunct professor at Catholic University of America, teaching leadership theory in the Masters Program.
Jacquie has a Master of Science degree in Human Resources Development Administration from Barry University. She holds a Doctor of Education degree in Human and Organizational Learning from the Graduate School of Education and Human Development at George Washington University. Jacquie has received a certificate in Executive Coaching from Georgetown University, a certificate in the Practice of Teaching Leadership from Harvard University and holds the national certification of Senior Professional in Human Resources (SPHR).
Jacquie has been invited to speak at conferences in the United States and the United Kingdom on the topic of how women learn through transformative experiences and techniques for effective leadership development in the social enterprise sector. She is a member of the Society of Human Resource Management (SHRM) and the International Leadership Association (ILA). In 2011 Dr. Hamp was awarded the Strategic Alignment Award by the Human Resources Leadership Association of Washington DC for her work in the redesign of the Goodwill Industries International leadership programs in order to meet the strategic goals of the organization.
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During the past few years Frank and Judy have experienced many conflicts in their marriage. Although they have made attempts to resolve their problems by themselves, they have finally decided to seek the help of a professional marriage counselor. Even though they have been thinking about divorce with increasing frequency, they still have some hope that they can achieve a satisfactory marriage.
Three couples counselors, each holding a different set of values pertaining to marriage and the family, describe their approach to working with Frank and Judy. As you read these responses, think about the degree to which each represents what you might say and do if you were counseling this couple.
· Counselor A. This counselor believes it is not her place to bring her values pertaining to the family into the sessions. She is fully aware of her biases regarding marriage and divorce, but she does not impose them or expose them in all cases. Her primary interest is to help Frank and Judy discover what is best for them as individuals 459460and as a couple. She sees it as unethical to push her clients toward a definite course of action, and she lets them know that her job is to help them be honest with themselves.
·
· What are your reactions to this counselor's approach?
· ▪ What values of yours could interfere with your work with Frank and Judy?
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Mike is a 20-year-old male who has just recently been released from jail. Mike is technically on probation for car theft, though he has been involved in crime to a much greater extent. Mike has been identified as a cocaine user and has been suspected, though not convicted, for dealing cocaine. Mike has been tested for drugs by his probation department and was found positive for cocaine. The county has mandated that Mike receive drug counseling but the drug counselor has referred Mike to your office because the drug counselor suspects that Mike has issues beyond simple drug addiction. In fact, the drug counselor’s notes suggest that Mike has Narcissistic personality disorder. Mike seems to have little regard for the feelings of others. Coupled with this is his complete sensitivity to the comments of others. In fact, his prior fiancé has broken off her relationship with him due to what she calls his “constant need for admiration and attention. He is completely self-centered.” After talking with Mike, you quickly find that he has no close friends. As he talks about people who have been close to him, he discounts them for one imperfection or another. These imperfections are all considered severe enough to warrant dismissing the person entirely. Mike makes a point of noting how many have betrayed their loyalty to him or have otherwise failed to give him the credit that he deserves. When asked about getting caught in the auto theft, he remarks that “well my dumb partner got me out of a hot situation by driving me out in a stolen get-a-way car.” (Word on the street has it that Mike was involved in a sour drug deal and was unlikely to have made it out alive if not for his partner.) Mike adds, “you know, I plan everything out perfectly, but you just cannot rely on anybody . . . if you want it done right, do it yourself.” Mike recently has been involved with another woman (unknown to his prior fiancé) who has become pregnant. When she told Mike he said “tough, you can go get an abortionor something, it isn’t like we were in love or something.” Then he laughed at her and toldher to go find some other guy who would shack up with her. Incidentally, Mike is a very attractive man and he likes to point that out on occasion. “Yeah, I was going to be a male model in L. A.,but my agent did not know what he was doing . . . could never get things settled out right . . . so I had to fire him.” Mike is very popular with women and has had a constant string of failed relationships due to what he calls “their inability to keep things exciting.” As Mike puts it “hey, I am too smart for this stuff. These people around me, they don’t deserve the good dummies. But me, well I know how to run things and get over on people. And I am not about to let these dummies get in my way. I got it all figured out . . . see?”
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November 8, 2002 -- vol. 49, no. 11, p. B7
The Dangerous Myth of Grade Inflation
By Alfie Kohn
Grade inflation got started ... in the late '60s and early '70s.... The grades that faculty members now give ... deserve to be a scandal.
--Professor Harvey Mansfield, Harvard University, 2001
Grades A and B are sometimes given too readily -- Grade A for work of no very high merit, and Grade B for work not far above mediocrity. ... One of the chief obstacles to raising the standards of the degree is the readiness with which insincere students gain passable grades by sham work.
--Report of the Committee on Raising the Standard, Harvard University, 1894
Complaints about grade inflation have been around for a very long time. Every so often a fresh flurry of publicity pushes the issue to the foreground again, the latest example being a series of articles in The Boston Globe last year that disclosed -- in a tone normally reserved for the discovery of entrenched corruption in state government -- that a lot of students at Harvard were receiving A's and being graduated with honors.
The fact that people were offering the same complaints more than a century ago puts the latest bout of harrumphing in perspective, not unlike those quotations about the disgraceful values of the younger generation that turn out to be hundreds of years old. The long history of indignation also pretty well derails any attempts to place the blame for higher grades on a residue of bleeding-heart liberal professors hired in the '60s. (Unless, of course, there was a similar countercultural phenomenon in the 1860s.)
Yet on campuses across America today, academe's usual requirements for supporting data and reasoned analysis have been suspended for some reason where this issue is concerned. It is largely accepted on faith that grade inflation -- an upward shift in students' grade-point averages without a similar rise in achievement -- exists, and that it is a bad thing. Meanwhile, the truly substantive issues surrounding grades and motivation have been obscured or ignored.
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The chart is a guide rather than an absolute – feel free to modify or adjust it as need to fit the specific ideas that you are developing.
Area: SALES
Specific Change Plans for Functional Areas
Capability Being Addressed
This can be pulled from the strategic proposal recommended in Part 2B
How do the recommended changes (details provided below) help improve the capability?
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Details of Specific Changes:
Proposed Changes in Resources
Proposed Changes to Management
Preferences
Proposed Changes to Organizational
Processes
Detailed Change Plans
(Lay out here the specifics of all recommended changes for this area. Modify the layout as necessary to account for the changes being recommended)
Proposed Change
Timing
Costs
On going impact on budget
On going impact on revenue
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Part-‐2:
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THE ENVIRONMENT/INDUSTRY
1. Drivers of change
Key drivers of change begin with the availability of substitute products. Many
other
companies can easily provide a substitute and the firm will have to find a way to
stand
out among them. Next would be the ability to differentiate yourself among other
firms
that pose a threat in the industry. Last, the political sector. The the federal, state,
and local governments could all shape the way healthcare is everywhere.
2. Key survival factors
Key survival factors would include making the firm stand out above the rest in the
industry and creating a name for itself. Second would be making sure there is a
broad
network of providers available for the customers. Giving the customer options
will
make the customer happy. Providing excellent customer service is key to any
firm in
the industry.
3. Product/Market and Value Proposition possibilities
Maintaining the use of heavy discounts will keep Careington in the competitive
market. They also concentrate on constantly innovating technology to make
sure that
they have the latest devices to offer their customers. To have high value proposition, Careington
will need to show their costumers that they can believe in them and trust them to
do the right thing. Showing the customers that they can always be on top of the
latest
technology and new age products will help build trust with the customers.
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The Challenge of Choosing Food:
For this forum, please read: https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/food/no-food-is-healthy-not-even-kale/2016/01/15/4a5c2d24-ba52-11e5-829c-26ffb874a18d_story.html?postshare=3401453180639248&tid=ss_fb-bottom
The article is from the Washington Post, January 17, 2016, by Michael Ruhlmanentitled: "No Food is Healthy, Not even Kale."
Based on your reading in the textbook share the following information with your classmates:
(1) To what degree to you agree with article, "No Food is Healthy, Not even Kale." Do semantics count? Should we focus on foods that are described as nourishing (nutrient-dense) instead of foods described as healthy because the word "healthy" is a "bankrupt" word? Explain and refer to information from the article.
(2) Based on the article and the textbook reading (review pages 9-30), how challenging is it for you to choose nutritious foods that promote health? What factors drive your food choices? Explain to your classmates.
(3) What do you think is the biggest concern we face health-wise in the US today?
(4) What are some obstacles as to why we may not be eating as well as we would like to?
Please complete all questions, if you have any question let me knowv
Test file, (Do not modify it)
// $> javac -cp .:junit-cs211.jar ProperQueueTests.java #compile
// $> java -cp .:junit-cs211.jar ProperQueueTests #run tests
//
// On windows replace : with ; (colon with semicolon)
// $> javac -cp .;junit-cs211.jar ProperQueueTests.java #compile
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import org.junit.*;
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import java.util.*;
public class ProperQueueTests {
public static void main(String args[]){
org.junit.runner.JUnitCore.main("ProperQueueTests");
}
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building queues:
- build small empty queue. (2)
- build larger empty queue. (11)
- build length-zero queue. (0)
*/
@Test(timeout=1000) public void ProperQueue_makeQueue_1(){
String expected = "";
ProperQueue q = new ProperQueue(2);
String actual = q.toString();
assertEquals(2, q.getCapacity());
assertEquals(expected, actual);
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String expected = "";
ProperQueue q = new ProperQueue(11);
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String expected = "";
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- fill up a small queue.
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- add many but don't finish filling a queue.
- make size-zero queue, adds fail, check it's still empty.
*/
@Test(timeout=1000) public void ProperQueue_add_1(){
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Inferior schools
Job discrimination
Political disenfranchisement
Over ½ lived below poverty level
Unemployment double national ave.
Ghettoes: gangs, drugs, substandard housing, crime
Early Victories
WWII egalitarianism and backlash against German racism
Jackie Robinson integrated professional baseball—1947
Desegregation of the armed forces ordered by president Truman—1948
Marian Anderson performed at the New York Metropolitan Opera House—1955
Increased interest in civil rights a result of Cold War propaganda
Brown v. Board of Education
1954 – Topeka, Kansas
Linda Brown: filed suit to attend a neighborhood school
“Separate educational institutions are inherently unequal.”
Overturned Plessy v. Ferguson
Court says: integrate "with all deliberate speed.”
What did this mean?
Linda Brown and Family
Circumvention of Brown v. Board of Education Ruling
White supremacist parents feared racial mixing and attempted to block black enrollment.
Ignored the integration issue
Token integration
Segregation through standardized placement tests
Segregation through private schools
Stalling through legal action
By 1964, 10 years after the Brown case, only 1% of black children attended truly integrated schools.
Little Rock High School
1957 courts order integration in Little Rock
9 black students enrolled.
Governor called out militia to block it.
Mobs replaced militia after recall.
Eisenhower ordered federal troops to protect the students.
Daily harassment
Courageous black students persevered.
Montgomery Bus Boycott
1955--Rosa Parks arrested for not giving up seat to white man
Boycott of bus system led by Martin Luther King, Jr.:
Walking, church busses, car pools, bicycles
Bus lines caught in the middle
Rosa Parks being Booked
Supreme Court ruled bus companies must integrate.
Inspired other protests:
Sit-ins, wade-ins, kneel-ins
Woolworth’s lunch counter
Montgomery Bus Boycott
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Non-Violent
Influenced by Ghandi
“The blood may flow, but it must be our blood, not that of the white man.”
“Lord, we ain’t what we oughta be. We ain’t what we wanna be. We ain’t what we gonna be. But thank God, we ain’t what we was.”
Freedom Riders
Activists traveled from city to city to ignite the protest.
Bull Conner:
in Montgomery
Dogs
Whips
Water hoses
Cattle prods
Television
Public backlash
Civil Rights March (AL. 1965)
1963 - Washington, D.C. "I have a Dream“—200,000 Attended
Civil Rights Legislation
1964 - Civil Rights Act
1964 - 24th Amendment
Abolished Poll Tax
1965 Voting Rights Act
Affirmative action
Int ...
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Sir Winston Churchill > Speeches & Quotations > Speeches
June 18, 1940
House of Commons
I spoke the other day of the colossal military disaster which occurred when the French High Command
failed to withdraw the northern Armies from Belgium at the moment when they knew that the French front
was decisively broken at Sedan and on the Meuse. This delay entailed the loss of fifteen or sixteen French
divisions and threw out of action for the critical period the whole of the British Expeditionary Force. Our
Army and 120,000 French troops were indeed rescued by the British Navy from Dunkirk but only with the
loss of their cannon, vehicles and modern equipment. This loss inevitably took some weeks to repair, and in
the first two of those weeks the battle in France has been lost. When we consider the heroic resistance
made by the French Army against heavy odds in this battle, the enormous losses inflicted upon the enemy
and the evident exhaustion of the enemy, it may well be the thought that these 25 divisions of the
best-trained and best-equipped troops might have turned the scale. However, General Weygand had to fight
without them. Only three British divisions or their equivalent were able to stand in the line with their French
comrades. They have suffered severely, but they have fought well. We sent every man we could to France
as fast as we could re-equip and transport their formations.
I am not reciting these facts for the purpose of recrimination. That I judge to be utterly futile and even
harmful. We cannot afford it. I recite them in order to explain why it was we did not have, as we could have
had, between twelve and fourteen British divisions fighting in the line in this great battle instead of only
three. Now I put all this aside. I put it on the shelf, from which the historians, when they have time, will
select their documents to tell their stories. We have to think of the future and not of the past. This also
applies in a small way to our own affairs at home. There are many who would hold an inquest in the House
of Commons on the conduct of the Governments-and of Parliaments, for they are in it, too-during the years
which led up to this catastrophe. They seek to indict those who were responsible for the guidance of our
affairs. This also would be a foolish and pernicious process. There are too many in it. Let each man search
his conscience and search his speeches. I frequently search mine.
Of this I am quite sure, that if we open a quarrel between the past and the present, we shall find that we
have lost the future. Therefore, I cannot accept the drawing of any distinctions between Members of the
present Government. It was formed at a moment of crisis in order to unite a ...
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The Categorical Imperative (selections taken from The Foundations of the Metaphysics of
Morals)
Preface
As my concern here is with moral philosophy, I limit the question suggested to this:
Whether it is not of the utmost necessity to construct a pure thing which is only empirical and
which belongs to anthropology? for that such a philosophy must be possible is evident from the
common idea of duty and of the moral laws. Everyone must admit that if a law is to have moral
force, i.e., to be the basis of an obligation, it must carry with it absolute necessity; that, for
example, the precept, "Thou shalt not lie," is not valid for men alone, as if other rational beings
had no need to observe it; and so with all the other moral laws properly so called; that, therefore,
the basis of obligation must not be sought in the nature of man, or in the circumstances in the
world in which he is placed, but a priori simply in the conception of pure reason; and although
any other precept which is founded on principles of mere experience may be in certain respects
universal, yet in as far as it rests even in the least degree on an empirical basis, perhaps only as to
a motive, such a precept, while it may be a practical rule, can never be called a moral law…
What is the “Good Will?”
NOTHING can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called
good, without qualification, except a good will. Intelligence, wit, judgement, and the other
talents of the mind, however they may be named, or courage, resolution, perseverance, as
qualities of temperament, are undoubtedly good and desirable in many respects; but these gifts of
nature may also become extremely bad and mischievous if the will which is to make use of them,
and which, therefore, constitutes what is called character, is not good. It is the same with the
gifts of fortune. Power, riches, honour, even health, and the general well-being and contentment
with one's condition which is called happiness, inspire pride, and often presumption, if there is
not a good will to correct the influence of these on the mind, and with this also to rectify the
whole principle of acting and adapt it to its end. The sight of a being who is not adorned with a
single feature of a pure and good will, enjoying unbroken prosperity, can never give pleasure to
an impartial rational spectator. Thus a good will appears to constitute the indispensable condition
even of being worthy of happiness.
There are even some qualities which are of service to this good will itself and may
facilitate its action, yet which have no intrinsic unconditional value, but always presuppose a
good will, and this qualifies the esteem that we justly have for them and does not permit us to
regard them as absolutely good. Moderation in the affections and passions, self-control, and calm
deliberation are not only good in many respects, but even seem to constitute part of th ...
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The cave represents how we are trained to think, fell or act according to society, following our own way and not the way intended for us. The shadows are merely a reflection of what they perceived to be reality instead of an illusion. The prisoners are trapped in society, each one of us who choose to stay trapped in our own way. The man that escapes is the person who no longer is a slave to society and can see the difference between reality and illusion. The day light can be compared to God’s will. When you don’t follow the plan that has been laid out for you by God, than you are trapped and you will only see illusions or reflections of reality. Escaping and choosing to go into “the light,” or following the will of God, only then can you be set free from your prison.
When looking at a piece of art, a painting, for example, at first glance the painting can appear to be something other what it is intended to be (reality). This reminds me of those pictures that everyone sees on social media, the picture that has circles all over it. When you look at the picture it appears that the circles are moving, but in reality the circles do not move at all. So art can more or less be perceived as more of an illusion.
An example of the picture can be seen here http://www.dailyhaha.com/_pics/movie_circles_illusion.jpg
Accepting illusion as reality happens a lot more times than we probably think. Anything that we see on T.V., Social Media, internet, or even dating, can all be perceived as an illusion at some point. Take dating for example; how a person acts on a date is most likely not how they would act to someone they have known for a while (illusion). Not all people pretend to be something different but in many cases they do. Recognizing what you failed to see after the initial first date and thereafter is how you would know what you first seen was just simply an illusion and therefore not reality, unless of course in reality they are simply a fake person I suppose. Following this pattern makes you realize most people do not appear to be who they are. A good “first impression” doesn’t necessarily mean much when thinking about illusions vs reality, because that’s all the “first impression” is in fact more or less an illusion.
People live in shadows because they fail to recognize reality and choose to continue to believe in illusions. With the growth of Social media, more and more people are falling victim to what things appear to be and will stay in the dark (cave). We as a society are imprisoned by what we see and read through news channels and social media. We will believe anything that comes across CNN or any news station (not fox news though) and let them make up our mind for us. People comment on any shooting victims and assume the cop was in the wrong and is racist, in reality that is not always the case.
It’s interesting to think in terms of appearance vs reality when viewing not only art, but the world. Not taking things for what they appear to ...
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The Case: Superior Foods Corporation Faces a Challenge
On his way to the plant office, Jason Starnes passed by the production line where hundreds of gloved, uniformed workers were packing sausages and processed meats for shipment to grocery stores around the world.
Jason's company, Superior Foods Corporation, based in Wichita, Kansas, employed 30,000 people in eight countries and had beef and pork processing plants in Arkansas, California, Milwaukee, and Nebraska City. Since a landmark United States–Japan trade agreement signed in 1988, markets had opened up for major exports of American beef, now representing 10 percent of U.S. production. Products called “variety meats”—including intestines, hearts, brains, and tongues—were very much in demand for export to international markets.
Jason was in Nebraska City to talk with the plant manager, Ben Schroeder, about the U.S. outbreak of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (mad cow disease) and its impact on the plant. On December 23, 2011, the U.S. Department of Agriculture had announced that bovine spongiform encephalopathy had been discovered in a Holstein cow in Washington State. The global reaction was swift: Seven countries imposed either total or partial bans on the importation of U.S. beef, and thousands of people were chatting about it on blogs and social networking sites. Superior had moved quickly to intercept a container load of frozen Asian-bound beef from its shipping port in Los Angeles, and all other shipments were on hold.
After walking into Ben's office, Jason sat down across from him and said, “Ben, your plant has been a top producer of variety meats for Superior, and we have appreciated all your hard work out here. Unfortunately, it looks like we need to limit production for a while—at least three months, or until the bans get relaxed. I know Senator Nelson is working hard to get the bans lifted. In the meantime, we need to shut down production and lay off about 25 percent of your workers. I know it is going to be difficult, and I'm hoping we can work out a way to communicate this to your employees.”
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The Case:
You can choose to discuss relativism in view of one of the following two cases:
The Case:
· Start by giving a brief explanation of relativism (200 words).
· what is the difference between ethical & cultural relativism. Then discuss, in view of relativism, how we can reconcile the apparent conflict between the need for enforcement of human rights standards with the need for protection of cultural diversity. (400 words).
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The Case Study of Jim, Week Six
The body or text (i.e., not restating the question in your answer, not including your references or your signature) of your initial response should be at least 300 words of text to be considered substantive. You will see a red U for initial responses that are not at least 300 words. Note: your initial response to this required discussion will not count toward participation
The Case Study of Jim, Week 6
Title of Activity: In class discussion of the case study of Jim, Week Six
Objective: Review the concepts of the case study in Ch.13 of Personality and then relate Jim’s case to the theorists discussed during the week. In addition, summarize the entire case study.
1. Read “The Case of Jim” in Ch. 13 of Personality.
2. Discuss the case. This week, discussion should focus on social-cognitive theory.
3. Provide a summary of the entire case.
THE CASE OF JIM Twenty years ago Jim was assessed from various theoretical points of view: psychoanalytic, phenomenological, personal construct, and trait.
At the time, social-cognitive theory was just beginning to evolve, and thus he was not considered from this standpoint. Later, however, it was possible to gather at least some data from this theoretical standpoint as well. Although comparisons with earlier data may be problematic because of the time lapse, we can gain at least some insight into Jim’s personality from this theoretical point of view. We do so by considering
Jim’s goals, reinforcers he experiences, and his self-efficacy beliefs.
Jim was asked about his goals for the immediate future and for the long-range future. He felt that his immediate and long-term goals were pretty much the same: (1) getting to know his son and being a good parent, (2) becoming more accepting and less critical of his wife and others, and (3) feeling good about his professional work as a consultant.
Generally he feels that there is a good chance of achieving these goals but is guarded in that estimate, with some uncertainty about just how much he will be able to “get out of myself” and thereby be more able to give to his wife and child.
Jim also was asked about positive and aversive reinforcers, things that were important to him that he found rewarding or unpleasant.
Concerning positive reinforcers, Jim reported that money was “a biggie.”
In addition he emphasized time with loved ones, the glamour of going to an opening night, and generally going to the theater or movies.
He had a difficult time thinking of aversive reinforcers. He described writing as a struggle and then noted, “I’m having trouble with this.”
Jim also discussed another social-cognitive variable: his competencies or skills (both intellectual and social). He reported that he considered himself to be very bright and functioning at a very high intellectual level. He felt that he writes well from the standpoint of a clear, organized presentation, but he had not written anything that is innovative or creative. Ji ...
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The Case of Missing Boots Made in Italy
You can lead a shipper to the water, but if the horse does not want to drink…
Vocabulary:
Shipper: In commercial trade, the person who gives goods to a shipping company to be transported to a foreign destination; in export transactions, it is usually the exporter. Do not confuse the shipper with the shipping company or carrier.
Consignee: The person who is ultimately receiving the goods, generally the buyer or importer. Sometimes these people will designate a “notify party” to be notified when the goods arrive in the port of entry, so that customs clearance can be arranged and the goods picked up for further domestic transport.
Carrier: A company that transports goods (sometimes referred to as a “shipping company” or a “freight company”).
Forwarder (or “freight forwarder”): A forwarder is like a travel agent for cargo – forwarders organize the transport of your goods from departure to destination, and charge a fee for their services. There are many different kinds of forwarders. There are firms that act as both forwarders and carriers. Sometimes forwarders will have relationships with a whole string of carriers and other forwarders, so that the shipper only deals with the forwarder but in the end the goods are actually carrier by a series of independent transport companies.
NVOCC: Non-vessel operating common carrier. A “common carrier” in the legal terminology refers to a carrier who has accepted the additional legal burdens imposed on a company that regularly carries goods for a fee (as opposed to someone with a truck who might agree to help you out just this once because you’re in trouble).
Container: Large standard-sized metal boxes for transporting merchandise; you see them on the back of trucks, or stacked up outside of ports like Lego toys, or on top of large ocean-going container ships. The capacity of container vessels is measured in TEU (twenty-foot equivalent units; containers generally measure 20 or 40 feet long; large vessels can now carry in excess of 4,000 TEU). There are different kinds of containers for different purposes. For example, refrigerated containers (for transporting meat or fruit, for example) are called “reefers,” so be careful where you use this term.
Consolidator: When large companies ship a lot of goods, they are usually able to fill entire containers. However, shippers who ship smaller amounts (like the shipper in the example below), often have their goods “stuffed” (the industry term) along with other goods into the same container; hence, they are “consolidated.” Some firms specialize in consolidating various shipments from different shippers, these are “consolidators.” A load which requires consolidation is a “LCL” or less-than-full-container load, as opposed to a “FCL” – full-container-load.
Marine Insurance: This is a common term for cargo insurance for international shipments, even in cases where much of the transport is NOT by sea; “marine insurance ...
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The Cardiovascular System
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The Cardiovascular System
Exercise 9.6: Cardiovascular System—Thorax, Arteries, Anterior View
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Animation: Pulmonary and Systemic Circulation
After viewing the animation, answer these questions:
1. Name the two divisions of the cardiovascular system.
2. What are the destinations of these two circuits?
3. In the systemic circulation, where does gas exchange occur?
4. In the pulmonary circulation, where does gas exchange occur?
5. Name the blood vessels that carry oxygen-rich blood to the heart. How many are there? Where do they terminate?
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In Review
1. What is the name for the fibrous sac that encloses the heart?
2. Name the lymphatic organ that is large in children but atrophies during adolescence.
3. Name the bilobed endocrine gland located lateral to the trachea and larynx.
4. How do large arteries supply blood to body structures?
5. Name the large vessel that conveys oxygen-poor blood from the right ventricle of the heart.
6. Name the two branches of the blood vessel mentioned in question 5 that convey oxygen-poor blood to the lungs.
7. Name the blunt tip of the left ventricle.
8. What is the carotid sheath? What structures are found within it?
9. What is the serous pericardium?
10. Name the structure that ...
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The Cardiovascular System
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The Cardiovascular System
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Animation: Pulmonary and Systemic Circulation
After viewing the animation, answer these questions:
1. Name the two divisions of the cardiovascular system.
2. What are the destinations of these two circuits?
3. In the systemic circulation, where does gas exchange occur?
4. In the pulmonary circulation, where does gas exchange occur?
5. Name the blood vessels that carry oxygen-rich blood to the heart. How many are there? Where do they terminate?
Exercise 9.9: Imaging—Thorax
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1. What is the name for the fibrous sac that encloses the heart?
2. Name the lymphatic organ that is large in children but atrophies during adolescence.
3. Name the bilobed endocrine gland located lateral to the trachea and larynx.
4. How do large arteries supply blood to body structures?
5. Name the large vessel that conveys oxygen-poor blood from the right ventricle of the heart.
6. Name the two branches of the blood vessel mentioned in question 5 that convey oxygen-poor blood to the lungs.
7. Name the blunt tip of the left ventricle.
8. What is the carotid sheath? What structures are found within it?
9. What is the serous pericardium?
10. Name the structure that ...
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The British Airways Swipe Card Debacle case study;
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The Case
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1. Table illustrates the demand and supply schedules for television
sets in Venezuela, a “small” nation that is unable to affect
world prices. On graph paper, sketch Venezuela’s demand and
supply schedules of television sets.
a. Suppose Venezuela imports TV sets at a price of $150 each.
Under free trade, how many sets does Venezuela produce,
consume, and import? Determine Venezuela’s consumer surplus
and producer surplus.
b. Assume that Venezuela imposes a quota that limits imports to
300 TV sets. Determine the quota-induced price increase and
the resulting decrease in consumer surplus. Calculate the
quota’s redistributive, consumption, protective, and revenue
effects. Assuming that Venezuelan import companies organize
as buyers and bargain favorably with competitive foreign
exporters, what is the overall welfare loss to Venezuela as a
result of the quota? Suppose that foreign exporters organize as a
monopoly seller. What is the overall welfare loss to Venezuela
as a result of the quota?
c. Suppose that, instead of a quota, Venezuela grants its import-
competing producers a subsidy of $100 per TV set. In your
diagram, draw the subsidy-adjusted supply schedule for
Venezuelan producers. Does the subsidy result in a rise in the
price of TV sets above the free-trade level? Determine
Venezuela’s production, consumption, and imports of TV sets
under the subsidy. What is the total cost of the subsidy to the
Venezuelan government? Of this amount, how much is
transferred to Venezuelan producers in the form of a producer
surplus, and how much is absorbed by higher production costs
due to inefficient domestic production? Determine the overall
welfare loss to Venezuela under the subsidy.
2. .:.
SOLUTION:
a.
Qs = 100, Qd = 800
Imports = 700.
Consumer surplus = $160,000
Producer surplus = $2500.
b.
Price rises by $100 and consumer surplus falls by $70,000.
Redistribution effect = $20,000
Consumption effect = $10,000
Protective effect = $10,000
Revenue effect = $30,000.
Overall welfare loss = $50,000.
c.
Price remains at the free trade level.
Qs = 300,
Qd = 800,
Imports = 500.
Total cost of subsidy = $30,000 of which $20,000 is absorbed
by producer surplus and $10,000 is absorbed by higher domestic
production costs.
Overall welfare loss = $10,000.
3. 191
Chapter Seven
Union Avoidance:
Rationale, Strategies,
and Practices
Chapter 6 examined union organizing campaigns. The
chapter covered the
flow of events associated with a campaign, union strategies and
tactics,
management responses, the roles of the National Labor
Relations Board
(NLRB) and the National Mediation Board (NMB), and the
factors influ-
encing election outcomes. At several points, the chapter
emphasized that,
except in isolated instances, most employers strongly resist
organizing
drives.
In this chapter we explore in greater depth the reasons for
employers’
resistance, strategies that a growing number of employers are
using to
create and maintain a “union-free” employment environment,
tactics
that they use to prevent union success in organizing, the role of
decerti-
fications in deunionizing partially unionized employers, and the
effects
of organizational and job structuring on limiting unionization
within
employers.
4. As you study this chapter, consider the following questions:
1. Are employers increasing or decreasing their opposition to
unions in
the current era? What evidence is there to support your
position?
2. What are the economic effects of initial unionization on the
employer?
3. What additional activities appear necessary for an employer
to avoid
unionization?
4. If an employer faces an organizing campaign, what
components and
process are included in a typical employer response?
5. What is a decertification election, and how does it differ
from other
NLRB elections?
192 Labor Relations
HISTORICAL OVERVIEW
The business and labor history of the United States, going back
to the Phil-
adelphia Cordwainers, is replete with examples of employer
resistance to
unionization. The fundamental differences in philosophies,
goals, and val-
ues of capitalists and trade unionists make this resistance
5. inevitable and
make employer accommodation after unionization sometimes
difficult.
Capitalistic and Trade Union Philosophies
Capitalists (either entrepreneurs or investor-owned
corporations) use their
resources to create mechanisms (productive processes) that will
enable
them to develop and sell goods and services in the marketplace
at prices
great enough to yield a higher return than that from other
alternative
investments. Employees are hired to produce the output.
Employees are
generally free to leave at any time, and capitalists would like to
have the
freedom to hire or terminate them, individually or collectively,
as neces-
sary to achieve their business purposes. Capitalists assume the
risk that
they will not be able to realize a positive yield from their
investments and
ideas. If they fail, their investments will be diminished or lost.
They also
expect that if they are successful in the marketplace (i.e., their
returns are
greater than they might realize through riskless investment)
they will be
able to keep these returns as a reward for taking the risk.
Trade unionists believe that wealth is ultimately created by the
workers
who produce the products or deliver the services to the
consumer. In cases
where the firm is successful in the market (i.e., it makes a
6. profit), unions
attribute a large measure of the success to the efforts of
employees. Their
actions are seen as ultimately adding the value to the inputs that
make the
products and services attractive in the market. From a union
perspective,
these gains need to be shared with the employees. While
employers would
like complete freedom to hire, fire, and assign workers to jobs,
unions
see employees as becoming increasingly invested in their jobs
with their
employers. Job property rights are established over time and
employ-
ers should be constrained in the types of decisions they can
make about
employees as employees accrue seniority and firm-specific
skills. Unions
also believe that employees should have a role in determining
the rules
that will be used to decide how these gains will be distributed
and how the
workplace will be governed. Employees are seen as investing a
substantial
part of their lives in employment, often with a particular
employer. As
such, they are entitled to a role in determining how the social
system in
which they are involved should be operated.
Employer Resistance before World War II
As noted in Chapter 2, employers engaged in a variety of
strategies and
tactics to avoid unionization or to reduce its power. They used
security
7. forces to police the workforce, forcibly kept out organizers, or
ferreted
Chapter 7 Union Avoidance: Rationale, Strategies, and
Practices 193
out internal union activists or sympathizers from the late 1800s
to World
War II. These types of tactics were particularly prevalent in
steel and auto
production plants.
Employer resistance was greatest and most successful where
workers
were essentially unskilled, where employers controlled entry to
occu-
pations, and where an employer was the dominant business in a
given
location. The organization of the workplace gave a great deal of
power
to foremen (supervisors) in the direction, control, and discipline
of the
workforce. The ability of an employee to retain a position
depended to a
large extent on whether he or she pleased the supervisor. This
approach
has been labeled the “drive system,” and it held sway in
manufacturing
for most of the first third of the 20th century. 1
During the 1920s and 1930s, employers implemented their own
ver-
sions of “community action” plans—the American Plan and the
Mohawk
8. Valley formula. Both of these sought to link labor unions with
interests
outside the community—especially with foreign ideologies. The
Mohawk
Valley formula, in particular, mobilized community leaders and
police
against organizing and strikes. Both plans stressed the need for
workers to
be able to refrain from joining unions and to be able to deal
directly with
their employers rather than through outside agents. Where
unionization
seemed unavoidable, employers worked with sympathetic
employees to
help establish so-called company unions that would not be
affiliated with
a larger international and would be less militant and more
familiar and
sympathetic with the employer’s situation. 2 The passage of
the Wagner
Act, however, made employee organizations that were
established and
assisted by employers illegal.
The Corporatist Period
From the late 1940s through the middle to late 1970s, large
U.S. employers
and unions moved through a period during which unions were
essen-
tially conceded a permanent role in a tripartite employment
environment
involving employers, unions, and the government as reflected in
public
policy toward employment. Laws and regulations favored
collective bar-
gaining as the method for dealing with industrial disputes.
9. Productivity
rose at a steady rate, and wage increases could be financed
without sub-
stantial inflationary pressure until the late 1960s and 1970s.
However, the oil shocks of the 1970s and their effects on
inflation,
together with the beginnings of economic globalization, led
employers
to increasingly resist wage increases and additional
unionization. At the
1 D. M. Gordon, “From the Drive System to the Capital-Labor
Accord: Econometric Tests for
the Transition between Productivity Regimes,” Industrial
Relations, 36 (1997), pp. 125–159.
2 S. M. Jacoby, “Reckoning with Company Unions: The Case of
Thompson Products,
1934–1964,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 43 (1989),
pp. 19–40; and D. Nelson,
“Managers and Nonunion Workers in the Rubber Industry:
Union Avoidance Strategies in the
1930s,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 43 (1989), pp.
41–52.
194 Labor Relations
same time, the rate of productivity gains in the United States
declined
substantially, and the economies of Japan and Western Europe
were begin-
ning, for the first time, to outstrip major segments of U.S.
manufacturers.
Economic returns to shareholders had gone flat in the early
10. 1970s, and the
U.S. economy was stagnating in low productivity, inflation, and
uncom-
petitiveness in an increasingly global economy.
Union-Free Employment
Employers in newer or more rapidly growing industries such as
informa-
tion technology, financial products and services, discount
retailing, and
personal services either had never been unionized to any extent
or were
experiencing many new entrants who were not unionized.
Employers in
established industries like autos and steel were heavily
unionized and
faced substantial economic problems. New companies entering
the steel
industry, for example, created so-called mini-mills that could
produce
low-end commodity products at substantially cheaper prices
with much
lower investments and lower-wage nonunion employees.
To gain flexibility in the design of work and employee
assignments,
and to reduce wage levels, employers embarked on a variety of
union-free
strategies (detailed later in this chapter). These strategies were
aimed at
avoiding unionization in nonunion facilities and at reducing or
eliminating
unionization in the others. This approach represented a shift in
manage-
ment strategy from trying to secure the “best bargain” to
practicing “union
11. avoidance.” 3 The initiative was aided during the Reagan
administration
by a shift in public policy away from the corporatist approach
and toward
labor and management having greater freedom to use whatever
legal tactics
each wanted to use to achieve its objectives. Some argue that
the scales were
tipped to the extent that previously illegal tactics were either
reinterpreted
to be legal or overlooked as administrative oversight was
reduced. 4
THE ECONOMIC RATIONALE
Chapter 1 noted that unions introduced voice and monopoly
power into
the workplace. For employers, the introduction of monopoly
power leads
to decreased profitability. As noted later in Chapter 9,
unionized workers’
wages are significantly higher than those of nonunion workers
in virtually
every industry. The ability of unions to increase wages through
monopoly
power is one of the leading reasons that employers oppose
unions. All else
being equal, shareholder value declines since higher wages
reduce profits,
leading to lower share prices.
3 A. Freedman, Managing Labor Relations (New York:
Conference Board, 1979).
4 W. B. Gould, IV, Agenda for Reform: The Future of
Employment Relationships and the Law
(Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1993), pp. 11–62.
12. Chapter 7 Union Avoidance: Rationale, Strategies, and
Practices 195
Infl exible Rules
Chapter 10 will discuss how unionization changes the policies
and prac-
tices employers can use to promote, transfer, and lay off
employees. Over
time, various work rules and production standards are also
established.
These rules and standards have the potential to negatively
influence pro-
ductivity because they reduce the employer’s ability to include
merit as
a criterion in making personnel decisions and they reduce
flexibility in
adapting to change by applying restrictive work rules.
Profi tability
Unionized firms are less profitable than nonunion firms and
less profit-
able subsequent to unionization. 5 Decreased profitability
may occur as a
result of employers’ extending negotiated wage and benefit
increases to
nonrepresented employees to avoid further unionization. While
produc-
tivity increases have been found following unionization for
represented
employees, this may not carry over to nonunion employees who
also
received increased pay. 6
13. Shareholder Value
Shareholder returns are reduced following unionization. A
study tracking
organizing success after the passage of the Wagner Act in the
1930s found
that organized firms had about a 20 percent lower rate of return
to share-
holders than did firms remaining nonunion. 7 Firms involved
in organizing
drives and whose securities are publicly traded experience a
reduction in
share prices when an election petition is filed, 8 a reduction
of about 4 per-
cent following a successful campaign, and a 1.3 percent
reduction even if the
union lost. 9 The latter probably occurs because, whether
they win or lose,
firms facing union activity increase wages more than those that
don’t. 10 If
unionization leads to lower shareholder returns, other things
equal, as the
agents of shareholders, top managers could be expected to try to
reduce
unionization in their firms, particularly if a substantial
proportion of
5 R. B. Freeman and J. L. Medoff, What Do Unions Do? (New
York: Basic Books, 1984),
pp. 181–190.
6 B. E. Becker and C. A. Olson, “Unions and Firm Profits,”
Industrial Relations, 31 (1992),
pp. 395–415.
7 C. A. Olson and B. E. Becker, “The Effects of the NLRA on
Stockholder Wealth in the 1930s,”
Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 44 (1986), pp. 116–129.
8 S. G. Bronars and D. R. Deere, “Union Representation
14. Elections and Firm Profitability,”
Industrial Relations, 29 (1990), pp. 15–37.
9 R. S. Ruback and M. B. Zimmerman, “Unionization and
Profitability: Evidence from the
Capital Market,” Journal of Political Economy, 92 (1984), pp.
1134–1157.
10 R. B. Freeman and M. M. Kleiner, “Impact of New
Unionization on Wages and Working
Conditions,” Journal of Labor Economics, 8 (1990), pp. S8–
S25.
196 Labor Relations
their compensation is in the form of stock options. 11 On the
other hand,
lower returns in unionized firms are accompanied by lower risk
in that
security prices are less volatile, perhaps reflecting increased
risk sharing
by employees through layoff procedures. 12
Company Investment Decisions
Employers reduce their historical rates of investment in newly
unionized
facilities. The reduction is equal to what would occur if the
corporate
income tax rate were increased by 33 percent. 13 U.S.
employers invest less
in and are less likely to locate operations in developed
economies that
have high employment regulation or that impose terms of
collective agree-
ments negotiated elsewhere, or resist unionization more
strongly than do
15. firms that are headquartered in Europe or Japan. In Korea,
compared to
Korean-owned companies and compared to the United States,
European-
owned firms were significantly more likely to be unionized. In
Taiwan,
compared to U.S.-owned firms, being Japanese-owned was
positively
related to being unionized. 14
Industrial Structure
Evidence suggests that productivity differences between union
and
nonunion employers are greatest in construction, where
unionized
workers have higher skills than nonunion workers. Relatively
speak-
ing, in service industries, unionized worker quality is lower
than that of
their nonunion counterparts. The service sector is expanding
relative to
the size of the manufacturing and construction sector. To the
extent that
lower unionized service worker quality translates into lower
productiv-
ity, greater resistance to unionization should be seen in the
service sec-
tor. Additionally, labor is a larger share of total costs in the
service sector,
so the effects of a given wage increase following unionization
would
have greater impact. The service sector ’s secular relative
growth rate
could be a primary contributor to the increased resistance of
employers
in general to union organizing.
16. 11 This and other issues are discussed and analyzed in B. E.
Becker and C. A. Olson, “Labor
Relations and Firm Performance,” in M. M. Kleiner, R. N.
Block, M. Roomkin, and S. W.
Salsburg, eds., Human Resources and the Performance of the
Firm (Madison, WI: Industrial
Relations Research Association, 1987), pp. 43–86.
12 B. E. Becker and C. A. Olson, “Unionization and
Shareholder Interests,” Industrial and Labor
Relations Review, 42 (1989), pp. 246–261.
13 B. C. Fallick and K. A. Hassett, “Investment and Union
Certification,” Journal of Labor
Economics, 17 (1999), pp. 570–582.
14 P. Feuille, J. Lawler, J. Bae, and S. J. Chen, “Unionization
Determinants of Multinational
Firms,” Proceedings of the Industrial Relations Research
Association, 51 (1999), pp. 101–109.
Chapter 7 Union Avoidance: Rationale, Strategies, and
Practices 197
UNION-FREE APPROACHES
A union-free organization is one that is entirely unorganized in
its U.S.
operations. Many companies fit this label, but among very large
compa-
nies, they are more likely to be in the financial services
industry. Among
firms with manufacturing operations, IBM and Hewlett-Packard
are exam-
ples of large firms without organized employees in the United
States.
17. A study of large nonunion organizations identified two types of
firms operating without unions—doctrinaire and philosophy-
laden. A
doctrinaire organization explicitly desires to operate without
unions
and implements human resource policies it believes will lead
employees
to resist them. Its human resource policies frequently mimic
what unions
have won in similar organizations through collective
bargaining—for
example, paying wages equal to or exceeding what unions have
negoti-
ated in that industry. 15 Thus, its practices are essentially a
substitute for
unionization. A philosophy-laden company has no unions, but
the lack
of organizing is because of the organization’s employee
relations climate.
Management engages in human resource practices it believes are
right. 16
Many of these firms are included in lists of “most admired”
employers or
“best places to work.” They are essentially invulnerable to
unionization
because their employment practices are more attractive to their
employ-
ees than those unions typically advocate. The policies are
evidently
congruent with employee desires because union organizing
activities
in these firms are practically nonexistent. We will examine
these two
approaches and explore the human resource policies of each.
18. Environmental Factors Associated with Union Avoidance
A variety of environmental factors are associated with union
avoidance,
some of which employers consider when making locational
choices.
Union penetration is highest in the Northeast and Midwest and
lowest
in the South and rural areas. Employers may locate in lightly
unionized
areas for two reasons. First, employers may believe employees
in areas
where unions have relatively little membership may be less
willing to
join unions. Mixed evidence exists on this point, as discussed in
Chapters
1 and 6. Second, plants located in areas without unions don’t
provide
information to employees that would enable them to compare
economic
benefits provided by union and nonunion organizations; and, as
a result,
employees may not be motivated to organize for economic
reasons. This
15 D. G. Taras, “Managerial Intentions and Wage Determination
in the Canadian Petroleum
Industry,” Industrial Relations, 36 (1997), pp. 178–205; see also
W. Lewchuk and D. Wells,
“When Corporations Substitute for Adversarial Unions: Labour
Markets and Human Resource
Management at Magna,” Relations Industrielles, 61 (2006), pp.
639–665.
16 F. K. Foulkes, Personnel Policies in Large Nonunion
Companies (Englewood Cliffs, NJ:
Prentice Hall, 1980), pp. 45–57.
19. 198 Labor Relations
assumption rests on the belief that employees will choose local
plants as a
logical comparison, instead of other plants in the industry.
However, the
evidence suggests that organizing around justice, fairness, and
dignity
issues is more successful than organizing that emphasizes
economics. 17
Employers may associate plant size as a factor to use in
avoiding unions.
Evidence on union election success, covered in Chapter 6, found
that units
with fewer than 100 employees were more vulnerable to
unionization
than larger units. While very large plants are more difficult to
organize,
employers may also believe that the type of human resource
management
they would prefer to implement is difficult to inculcate in a
large plant.
Thus, the trend appears to be toward locating plants in labor
market areas
that are able to support medium-size operations and planning
that they
will generally not exceed 500 employees unless returns to scale
are large.
One problem with smaller plants is that they may not be
optimally pro-
ductive given the appropriate capital-labor mix. 18 Plants
also should not be
smaller than 200 employees because a union can capitalize
20. quickly on an
issue in a smaller plant and because the plant population may be
relatively
homogeneous, enabling quicker and more nearly unanimous
agreement
among employees on whether to be represented.
Differences also exist among and within industries. Industries
with a
large proportion of white-collar workers, such as finance, are
less likely
to be unionized. But within industries, some firms have not
been orga-
nized, while others are completely unionized. In construction,
relatively
new organizations remain nonunion by guaranteeing
employment dur-
ing usual layoff periods and by implementing human resource
policies
on an organizationwide basis. Newly incorporated, technically
oriented
industries also have had a relatively low level of unionization,
even when
they have been located in traditionally highly unionized areas.
Some of
this is probably due to employment security resulting from rapid
growth
and abundant alternative employment opportunities, while other
aspects
of resistance to organization may be related to progressive
employee
relations policies and practices. Further many of these firms
locate manu-
facturing facilities offshore, in lower-wage areas far from their
technical
facilities, or they outsource production.
21. A Philosophy-Laden Approach to Employee Relations
A model has been constructed to explain how a philosophy-
laden approach
to employee relations results in a variety of outcomes, one of
which is the
likely absence of a union. The model shows that environmental
factors
similar to those mentioned above may be involved in the
location and
17 K. Bronfenbrenner, “The Role of Union Strategies in NLRB
Certification Elections,” Industrial
and Labor Relations Review, 50 (1997), pp. 195–212.
18 M. Milkman and M. Mitchell, “Union Influence on Plant
Size,” Journal of Labor Research,
16 (1995), pp. 319–329.
Chapter 7 Union Avoidance: Rationale, Strategies, and
Practices 199
demographics of the organization’s establishments, the variety
of substan-
tive policies implemented, and company characteristics that
promote the
ability to achieve specific outcomes. These, in turn, lead to a
particular cli-
mate or culture. The by-products of this culture are a variety of
behaviors
and attitudes associated with a reluctance to join unions, an
avoidance of
industrial conflict, and a belief that the company is a good place
to work.
Figure 7.1 depicts this model, which will be explored in some
22. detail in the
following sections.
Wage Policies
Large nonunion organizations generally try to lead the market
in their
pay levels. They try to anticipate what unions will gain at the
bargaining
table and provide pay increases equal to or exceeding that level,
award-
ing them before unions gain theirs. Nonunion organizations may
also
implement merit pay policies, using performance measures to
differenti-
ate pay increases. They communicate pay and benefit levels and
prac-
tices to employees. 19 More recently, companies may
implement skill-based
pay programs to support new organizational structures stressing
team
designs. Additionally, increasing numbers of companies are
considering
or implementing profit-sharing or gainsharing programs.
To accomplish these wage goals, an organization’s pay must
compare
favorably with others. 20 Location in a growing industry
with relatively
high profits or a position as market leader in the industry should
enable an
organization to maintain its ability to pay. In turn, a high-
paying employer
may have an advantage in recruiting and retaining high-quality
employ-
ees who are motivated to retain their high-paying jobs. 21
23. If a philosophy-laden organization considers employee
preferences as
it is expected to do, then benefit levels in nonunion employers
should
closely lead those in unionized employers because they might
be expected
to react quickly to changing needs associated with changing age
and gen-
der mixes in their workforces.
Nonwage Policies
Unionized employers generally have lower turnover rates and
higher
rates of internal promotion and transfer than nonunion
employers. If an
employer sought to emulate the conditions employees desire, it
would
have a rationalized internal labor market with high levels of
information
on job opportunities available to employees.
19 Foulkes, Personnel Policies in Large Nonunion Companies,
pp. 158–163.
20 Ibid., pp. 165–167.
21 J. Yellen, “Efficiency Wage Models of Unemployment,”
American Economic Review, 74,
no. 2 (1984), pp. 200–205.
S
u
b
st
a
66. 35
.
200
Chapter 7 Union Avoidance: Rationale, Strategies, and
Practices 201
Large nonunion firms generally have formalized job-posting
systems,
with clearly communicated and unambiguous promotion criteria
that
emphasize seniority and skills as well as development
opportunities so
that employees can develop the skills necessary to take
advantage of open-
ings that are likely to occur. 22
Philosophy-laden firms have generally taken a career-oriented
approach
toward employment. Full-time nonprobationary employees are
assumed
to be likely to spend their entire careers with the organization.
Thus, non-
union firms frequently require longer probationary periods or
hire sub-
stantial numbers of part-time employees to provide a buffer for
permanent
employees during periods of fluctuating product demand. 23
They also pro-
vide substantial amounts of targeted training and development
programs
to continuously upgrade skills and prepare employees to
67. perform well in
expanded job roles.
Human Resource Expenditures
In unionized employers, union representation and the
negotiated contract
take the place of many human resource programs devised by
nonunion
employers. Management has less need to attend closely to
employee
desires because doing so is the union’s responsibility and the
contract
spells out how employee relations will be handled. Staffing and
develop-
ment needs are handled through on-the-job training, and
employees are
retained through negotiated seniority clauses and the
employees’ initial
and continuing interest in being represented.
Nonunion employers have higher human resource expenditures,
and
more human resource workers are involved in employee
relations. The
employer must pay more attention to compensation because it
usually
tries to match or exceed what unions negotiate or to construct a
particu-
lar package to attract and retain employees. Development
activities are
emphasized. Supervisory support for problem solving is offered
through
the human resource department instead of the grievance system.
Employment Security
Union members have the rules for determining their
68. employment security
spelled out in the contract. Almost always, increasing
competitive-status
seniority is associated with greater rights to continued
employment in a
present job or another job for which an employee is qualified.
Recently,
these rights have been of lower value where employers have
opted to
close entire facilities, but even there, entitlements to transfers
and sever-
ance pay are often spelled out in contracts and benefit levels
increase with
seniority.
22 Foulkes, Personnel Policies in Large Nonunion Companies,
pp. 123–145.
23 Ibid., pp. 99–122.
202 Labor Relations
Employees in nonunion companies have their employment
rights
determined by their employers. Unless otherwise provided, it’s
legally
assumed an employee is hired at the will of the employer and
can be
terminated for a good reason, a bad reason, or no reason at all,
as long
as the termination is not for a reason prohibited by employment
law.
However, courts have increasingly narrowed employers’ rights
to ter-
minate at will, particularly where employers are judged to have
69. acted in
bad faith. 24 Even where employers have contracts with
employees, and
where a discharge could lead to a breach-of-contract suit,
employers may
be vulnerable to heavier tort damages for bad-faith behavior
associated
with a discharge. 25
In the reciprocal employment relationship, employees may
come to
feel that an implied contract exists between them and their
employer.
When employees invest in developing skills for their present
employer
and apply conscientious effort, they see themselves as
producing benefits
for the employer. In turn, employees may build expectations of
long-term
employment in return for effort and loyalty. 26
Nonunion employers use a variety of methods to enhance
employment
security for at least some employees. Given the need for
flexibility in the
workforce, more employers are subcontracting or allocating jobs
that need
relatively little training about the employer’s specific mode of
operation
to supplemental or complementary workforces of temporary
employees.
Frequently, these employees are hired on a contract basis for a
particular
term—usually a year or less. These employees are explicitly
told they have
no employment security guarantee beyond the period for which
70. they are
hired. When faced with a need for major employment
reductions, employ-
ers have increasingly implemented expanded separation
incentives, rede-
ployment to other facilities with or without retraining, training
programs
for new occupational assignments, expanded personal leaves,
and work-
sharing programs that involve cuts in salary and hours to save
jobs or to
provide incentives for those willing to terminate employment.
27
Employee “Voice” Systems
Lower turnover in unionized situations (detailed in Chapter 10)
might be
related to the fact that union employees have an opportunity to
voice their
needs for change through the grievance and negotiation
processes. Where
24 E. C. Wesman and D. C. Eischen, “Due Process,” in J. A.
Fossum, ed., Employee and Labor
Relations, SHRM-BNA Series, vol. 4 (Washington, DC: Bureau
of National Affairs, 1990), p.117.
25 M. J. Keppler, “Nonunion Grievance Procedures: Union
Avoidance Technique of Union
Organizing Opportunity,” Labor Law Journal, 41 (1990), pp.
557–562.
26 J. A. Fossum, “Employee Relations,” in J. A. Fossum, ed.,
Employee and Labor Relations,
SHRM-BNA Series, vol. 4 (Washington, DC: Bureau of
National Affairs, 1990), pp. 12–14.
27 F. K. Foulkes, “Employment Security: Developments in the
Nonunion Sector,” Proceedings of
71. the Industrial Relations Research Association, 41 (1988), pp.
411–417.
Chapter 7 Union Avoidance: Rationale, Strategies, and
Practices 203
these mechanisms are absent, employees who desire change may
be able
to achieve it only by “voting with their feet.” 28
In unionized organizations, employees are able to exercise their
voice
on immediate issues through grievance procedures and on long-
term
issues through participation in negotiation committees.
Employees who
have the greatest disagreements with an organization’s
operations might
be expected to be most involved in union activities at the
employer level.
In nonunion employers, employees have no contractual
entitlement
to redress grievances or to have a voice in how the organization
should
be run. Some nonunion organizations, particularly those with
philoso-
phy-laden backgrounds, have constructed elaborate systems that
enable
employees to voice complaints and get action on them. 29
A model system enables an employee to communicate directly
with his
or her company’s chief executive officer, who has a department
72. that directly
investigates causes of complaints and reports its findings. The
employee’s
superiors may be the focus of the investigation, but the
employee is not
identified, and no reprisals may be made against the person who
filed
the complaint. Exhibit 7.1 is a commentary on how one of
these systems
works.
28 A. O. Hirschman, Exit, Voice, and Loyalty (Cambridge, MA:
Harvard University Press, 1970).
29 For an overview, see R. Bernbeim, Nonunion Complaint
Systems: A Corporate Appraisal
(New York: Conference Board, 1980).
THE OPEN-DOOR POLICY
The Open-Door Policy is deeply ingrained in [the
company’s] history. This policy is a reflection of
our belief in respect for the individual. It is also
based on the principle that every person has a
right to appeal the actions of those who are
immediately over him in authority. It provides a
procedure for assuring fair and individual treat-
ment for every employee.
Should you have a problem which you believe
the company can help solve, discuss it with your
immediate manager or your location’s person-
nel manager or, in the field, with the manager
of your location. You will find that a frank talk
with your manager is usually the easiest and
most effective way to deal with the problem.
Second, if the matter is still not resolved, or is
73. of such a nature you prefer not to discuss it with
your immediate manager or location person-
nel manager, you should go to your local gen-
eral manager, regional manager, president or
general manager of your division or subsidiary,
whichever is appropriate.
Third, if you feel that you have not received
a satisfactory answer, you may cover the matter
by mail, or personally, with the Chairman of the
Board.
Source: Fred K. Foulkes, Personnel Policies in Large
Nonunion Companies (Englewood Cliffs, NJ: Prentice
Hall, 1980), p. 300.
Exhibit 7.1
204 Labor Relations
To reduce potential employee cynicism about management’s
commit-
ment to neutral grievance procedures, IBM operates a system
that allows
employees with complaints to have direct anonymous access to
high-level
management. When complaints are received, investigations are
required,
and the remedial action to be taken, if any, is communicated
back to the
grievant. Follow-up is monitored by high-level management.
These so-called open-door policies vary substantially in their
real
74. access to higher-level managers—in terms of the types of
complaints or
questions that can be taken up and also the degree to which
employees
must first contact lower-level supervisors and managers before
higher-
level managers will review a complaint. 30
Another innovative approach is creating an employee review
board to
act as an impartial group to resolve outstanding grievances.
Where this
approach is used, a review board of randomly chosen employees
or per-
sons at the same relative organizational level as the grievant
hears the evi-
dence and renders a binding decision for the employer and the
grievant.
Employees may have concerns about due process. For due
process to
operate, a procedure must necessarily include an objective
investigator
and decision maker who has the power to make a binding
decision for
both an employee and the employer. 31 Unless the employee
believes the
employer’s procedures allow a valid appeal, the employee may
prefer to
take an employment grievance to court as a tort issue. 32
Nonunion proce-
dures in the public sector are relatively similar to union
grievance proce-
dures. Peer review panels are sometimes included. Their
effectiveness is
related to employees’ use of them, training in their operation,
75. assistance
by management in processing complaints and obtaining
information for
grievants, full and fair hearings, and an explanation of the
decision. 33
Some large nonunion organizations also periodically conduct
attitude
surveys for early identification of potentially troublesome areas.
Such
problem areas might include certain employee groups or certain
employee
relations policies such as advancement, pay, or development
opportuni-
ties. Given that attitudes may be precursors of subsequent
behaviors, the
diagnosis of potential problems allows management to conduct
remedial
activities to eliminate potential areas of contention.
Grievance procedures introduce justice systems to the
workplace. Justice
can be defined in several ways: distributive (methods used to
decide rela-
tive shares of an outcome), procedural (methods used to
determine how
30 D. M. McCabe, “Corporate Nonunion Grievance Procedures:
Open Door Policies—A
Procedural Analysis,” Labor Law Journal, 41 (1990), pp. 551–
556.
31 D. W. Ewing, Justice on the Job: Resolving Grievances in
the Nonunion Workplace
(Boston: Harvard University Press, 1989).
32 Keppler, “Nonunion Grievance Procedures.”
33 G. W. Bohlander and K. Behringer, “Public Sector Nonunion
76. Complaint Procedures:
Current Research,” Labor Law Journal, 41 (1990), pp. 563–567.
Chapter 7 Union Avoidance: Rationale, Strategies, and
Practices 205
decisions are reached), and interactional (methods used to
communicate).
Perceptions of organizational justice are influenced by all three,
but pro-
cedural justice is the strongest, followed by interactional and
distributive.
Employee input in the process and independence of decision
makers are
important components of all three justice types. 34
In some organizations, supervisors and managers are evaluated
by
their subordinates as well as by other performance indicators.
They are
expected to maintain a work environment leading to positive
employee
attitudes as measured by periodic surveys. When attitude
surveys point
out a problem, they may be required to devise action plans to
eliminate
difficulties.
Nonunion employers that operate in competitive environments
are par-
ticularly interested in managing conflicts in their organizations.
A conflict
that leads to a dispute or the possible violation of an
employment law or
77. regulation will occupy considerable management time and incur
expense
and uncertainty until a settlement is reached. Litigation
consumes resources
and polarizes positions within the organization. Increasingly,
employers
are developing preventive methods to diagnose potential
employment
disputes at an early point and to train employees and
supervisors to rec-
ognize and avoid situations that create unnecessary disputes. 35
About half of nonunion firms have grievance procedures. These
firms
have higher proportions of managers and professional
employees, are
larger, value human resource management, do not have
unionized employ-
ees, and are not in a high-technology industry. Some grievance
procedures
include binding arbitration if a grievance is unresolved.
Characteristics
associated with third-party resolution include union avoidance
strategies,
being a smaller firm, low assets per employee, not being in
manufacturing,
and being a high-tech firm. 36
Where nonunion grievance procedures exist, rates are higher
when peer
review and/or nonunion arbitration is used for deciding cases. If
manag-
ers are included in the final phase of the resolution process,
grievance rates
are lower, probably due to cynicism regarding the fairness of
the process.
78. Grievance rates are lower in team-based and high-performance
work
organizations. 37
34 D. Blancero, “Nonunion Grievance Systems: Perceptions of
Fairness,” Proceedings of the
Industrial Relations Research Association, 44 (1992), pp. 458–
464.
35 D. B. Lipsky and R. L. Seeber, “Dispute Resolution in the
Changing Workplace,” Proceedings
of the Industrial Relations Research Association, 54 (2004), pp.
30–40.
36 J. T. Delaney and P. Feuille, “The Determinants of Nonunion
Grievance and Arbitration
Procedures,” Proceedings of the Industrial Relations Research
Association, 44 (1992),
pp. 529–538.
37 A. J. S. Colvin, “The Dual Transformation of Workplace
Dispute Resolution,” Industrial
Relations, 43 (2003), pp. 712–735.
206 Labor Relations
Other Innovative Techniques
Some organizations have begun to hold mass meetings between
employ-
ees and top-management officials to get a sense of possible
problems. One
approach involves meetings between top managers and groups
of lower-
level employees to present current problems. This “deep-
sensing” approach
may give top managers a better reading on the pulse of
employee morale,
79. and employees in turn might expect more action on their
problems.
Another approach, called vertical staff meetings , includes
about a dozen
employees from various levels who are picked at random to
meet with the
division’s president at a monthly meeting. The president follows
up on the
problems disclosed by the attendees and reports to the
participants. 38
Employer/Employee Committees
Employers have formed various types of management-employee
com-
mittees. Quality circles are one example. Others involve
employees’
making recommendations to management regarding hiring,
personnel
assignments, hours, terms and conditions of employment, and
other
similar issues, which are the subject of collective bargaining in
unionized
employers.
The Taft-Hartley Act forbids dominance of a labor organization
by an
employer. The Electromation decision narrows an employer’s
ability to
broadly ask employees to consider employment issues. 39
Involvement of
employees in nonmandatory bargaining issues is unlikely to lead
to suc-
cessful charges of employer dominance.
Employee participation in some of these committees may be
80. similar to
collecting attitude survey data from a sample of the plant
population and
using these data as a representation of overall employee
attitude. It also
enables both groups to enrich their understanding of what each
perceives
as problems in the workplace and their causes.
In Canada, company unions are permitted, and there has been a
long
history of nonunion employee representation in Imperial Oil.
The Joint
Industrial Council (JIC) in Imperial dealt with a variety of
workplace
issues, including wages and benefits. However, when employee
JIC mem-
bers perceived they were losing influence in decision making on
employ-
ment issues, they organized a union with the former JIC
representatives as
38 For additional perspectives on employee voice, see T. A.
Mahoney and M. R. Watson,
“Evolving Modes of Work Force Governance: An Evaluation,”
in B. E. Kaufman and
M. M. Kleiner, eds., Employee Representation: Alternatives and
Future Directions (Madison,
WI: Industrial Relations Research Association, 1993), pp. 135–
168. For an overview of research
on nonunion grievance procedures, see R. B. Peterson, “The
Union and Nonunion Grievance
System,” in D. Lewin, O. S. Mitchell, and P. D. Sherer, eds.,
Research Frontiers in Industrial
Relations and Human Resources (Madison, WI: Industrial
Relations Research Association,
81. 1992), pp. 131–162.
39 Electromation, Inc., 309 NLRB No. 163 (1992).
Chapter 7 Union Avoidance: Rationale, Strategies, and
Practices 207
the new union’s officers. 40 Canadian firms with nonunion
representation
plans that stray far from offering union-type wages and benefits
usually
end up becoming organized. 41
Prior to being banned by the Wagner Act, a number of company
unions
were created, mostly during the 1920s. These were formed with
the assis-
tance of management and were operated at the enterprise level.
Their
outlawing by the Wagner Act was related to the conclusion that
they
lacked independence and had a compromised ability to represent
worker
interests. A recent analysis of company unions suggests,
however, that
they often enhance worker outcomes and generally benefit both
employ-
ees and employers. 42
Developing Practices in Nonunion Employee Relations
Increasingly, companies have explicit union avoidance policies
and tailor
human resource practices to support these goals. Several areas
in which
there are differences between companies with an explicit union
82. avoid-
ance policy and those without one include providing more
information
to employees regarding their work group’s productivity; more
work-
group discussion of quality or productivity issues; more
encouragement
of participation mechanisms, such as quality circles and
autonomous work
teams; work sharing in preference to layoffs; and the
development and
operation of formal complaint systems. 43 Table 7.1
shows the number of
positive responses toward a variety of human resource practices
among a
sample of large employers.
Besides their differences in communication and participation,
new non-
union and traditional unionized employers differ in the way the
work-
place is organized. To increase flexibility, employers have
substantially
reduced the number of job classifications. In many situations,
employees
are organized into teams, and the team is responsible not only
for produc-
tion but also for maintenance of its equipment. The team may
have only
one or two different jobs, which are defined on the basis of skill
level rather
than the functional specialty of the job holder. 44
40 D. G. Taras and J. Copping, “The Transition from Formal
Nonunion Representation to
Unionization: A Contemporary Case,” Industrial and Labor
83. Relations Review, 52 (1998),
pp. 22–44.
41 D. G. Taras, “Evolution of Nonunion Employee
Representation in Canada,” Journal of Labor
Research, 20 (1999), pp. 31–52.
42 B. E. Kaufman, “The Case for the Company Union,” Labor
History, 41 (2000), pp. 321–350.
43 A. Freedman, The New Look in Wage Policy and Employee
Relations (New York: Conference
Board, 1985), pp. 16–20.
44 T. A. Kochan, H. C. Katz, and R. B. McKersie, The
Transformation of American Industrial
Relations (New York: Basic Books, 1986), pp. 81–108.
208 Labor Relations
PREVENTIVE PROGRAMS
In an effort to avoid being organized, employers design
programs aimed
at influencing employees to identify with management and the
goals and
culture of the organization, controlling contextual attributes that
unions
typically argue they can improve, and monitoring attitudes and
behav-
iors of employees to gain early evidence of any changes or
situations that
might encourage organizing. 45 Table 7.2 lists several
initiatives manage-
ment implements in each of these areas.
Some of the activities under contextual control and monitoring
may
84. be traded off or be used with increased emphasis. For example,
inten-
sive employee screening may be implemented to reduce the need
for
later surveillance and to create a workforce with more company-
oriented
45 J. J. Lawler, Unionization and Deunionization: Strategies,
Tactics, and Outcomes (Columbia:
University of South Carolina Press, 1990), pp. 118–128.
Number of Companies
in Which:
Managers Are
Encouraged
to Develop Practice
Company Initiative or Sustain Exists
Information-related:
Employees are given information about competitive or
economic conditions of plant or business 431
Employees track their group’s quality or
productivity performance 264*
Participation-related:
Employee participation programs (quality circles,
quality-of-work-life programs) 364*
Autonomous work teams 107*
Employees meet in small work groups to discuss
production or quality 340*
Compensation-related:
Profit-sharing, gainsharing, or bonus programs for
nonexempt employees 191
Employees receive productivity or other gainsharing
bonuses 121
“Payment for knowledge” compensation systems 107
85. All-salaried compensation systems 173
Miscellaneous:
Formal complaint or grievance system 378*
Work sharing instead of layoffs 176*
Flextime or other flexible work schedules 162
*Statistically significant relationship with a company
preference for union avoidance, at .05 or better.
TABLE 7.1
Company Practices
among Nonunion
Employees
Source: A. Freedman,
The New Look in Wage
Policy and Employee Relations
(New York: Conference
Board, 1985), p. 17.
Reprinted by permission
of the Conference Board
Review.
Chapter 7 Union Avoidance: Rationale, Strategies, and
Practices 209
attitudes. 46 Some activities within contextual control may
also be
exchanged. For example, high wages and good fringe benefits
vary
depending on the locations being compared. If labor costs are an
issue,
the firm may decide to locate in a lower-wage area and then pay
at rates
86. exceeding the competition. In any case, implementing these
activities
requires a more intensive employee relations/human resource
manage-
ment effort than it would in a unionized setting. The employer
needs to
determine that the long-term benefits exceed the costs.
MANAGEMENT CAMPAIGN TACTICS IN
REPRESENTATION ELECTIONS
Campaign tactics depend to an extent on the size and
sophistication of
the employer. Smaller employers or units based in more remote
locations
often rely on labor relations consultants or attorneys to assist in
organiz-
ing and implementing the campaign. As we noted in Chapter 6,
the use of
consultants has a negative effect on union success rates. As in
preventive
46 G. M. Saltzman, “Job Applicant Screening by a Japanese
Transplant: A Union-Avoidance
Tactic,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 49 (1995), pp.
88–104.
Objective Employer Activities
Influence Orientation programs
Quality circles (especially blue collar)
MBO (management by objectives) (especially for white-collar
and
professional employees)
Information sharing
87. Attitude surveys
Structuring of group interaction
Empathetic management style
Contextual control Plant location
Small plant size
Outsourcing and use of flexible employment arrangements
Employee screening
Supervisor selection and training
Influential HRM department
Desirable working conditions
High wages, good fringe benefits
Job security
Career advancement opportunities
Grievance program
Restrictions on workplace solicitations by union supporters
Monitoring Attitude surveys
Surveillance
Reports from operatives and management loyalists
Review of employee complaints
Review of personnel records
TABLE 7.2
Employer Influence,
Contextual Control,
and Monitoring
Tactics
Source: Adapted from
J. J. Lawler, Unionization and
Deunionization: Strategies,
Tactics, and Outcomes
(Columbia: University of
South Carolina Press, 1990),
pp. 120–121.
88. 210 Labor Relations
processes, employers may implement a variety of influence,
contextual
control, and monitoring activities to reduce the chances of the
organiz-
ing union’s gaining recognition. 47 Table 7.3 lists the
activities frequently
used by employers. Table 7.4 shows the frequency of a
variety of common
employer campaign themes that were used in a sample of 201
elections.
Management often uses a variety of consultants in opposing
unioniza-
tion once an organizing campaign begins. Consultants may
include attor-
neys, campaign advisers, advocates of positive labor relations,
security
services that provide investigation resources, trade and industry
associa-
tions that provide expertise gained from previous campaigns,
advocacy
groups that oppose unions in general, and educational
institutions that
might provide union avoidance information. 48
Several tactics, such as improving wages, hours, and terms and
con-
ditions of employment or treating union supporters in a
discriminatory
manner, are unfair labor practices (ULPs). Evidence indicates
that an
89. aggressive campaign that includes unfair labor practices is
associated
with management victories. 49 Since the costs of committing
an unfair labor
practice are very low for employers relative to the costs of
unions winning
47 Lawler, Unionization and Deunionization, pp. 139–160.
48 Ibid., p. 90.
49 W. T. Dickens, “The Effect of Company Campaigns on
Certification Elections: Law and
Reality Once Again,” Industrial and Labor Relations Review, 36
(1983), pp. 560–575.
Objective Employer Activities
Influence Captive audience speeches
Small-group and individual meetings
Letters, posters, handbills, and other written communications
Threats and/or inducements
Films, slide shows
Contextual control External:
Use of regulatory agency procedures
Election delays
Linkages with community institutions (banks, police,
newspapers, churches, etc.)
Intraunit:
Supervisor training
Discriminatory treatment of union supporters
Short-term improvement in wages and working conditions
Establish or support employee anti-union committee
Refuse workplace access to union organizers
90. Restrict workplace solicitations by union supporters
Excelsior-list misreporting
Neutrality agreements
Monitoring Attitude surveys
Surveillance
Interrogation
Reports from operatives and management loyalists
TABLE 7.3
Employer Election
Campaign Tactics
Source: Adapted from
J. J. Lawler, Unionization
and Deunionization:
Strategies, Tactics, and
Outcomes (Columbia:
University of South Carolina
Press, 1990), pp. 141–142.
Chapter 7 Union Avoidance: Rationale, Strategies, and
Practices 211
elections, this actually reinforces employer choices to commit
them. Exten-
sive advice on how to conduct a legal campaign in opposition to
a union
is readily available. 50
The lower an employer’s wage is relative to others in its
industry, the
greater management’s resistance will be. Employer resistance
increases
91. more rapidly with differentials than do employee desires for
unioniza-
tion. 51 An active union avoidance strategy for new
facilities decreases the
likelihood of organizing from about 15 percent to 1 percent. 52
DECERTIFICATIONS
Once certified, unions face periodic risks in continuing as the
bargaining
agent. A majority may vote to oust the union after the election
bar ends
if no contract is in effect. Decertification occurs more often in
small units
that lack local leadership and have low member involvement in
union
50 See, for example, M. A. Spognardi, “Conducting a
Successful Union-Free Campaign:
A Primer (Part I),” Employee Relations Law Journal, 24, no. 2
(1998), pp. 35–52; and Part II,
24, no. 3 (1998), pp. 31–55.
51 R. B. Freeman, “The Effect of the Union Wage Differential
on Management Opposition and
Union Organizing Success,” American Economic Review, 76,
no. 2 (1986), pp. 92–96.
52 T. A. Kochan, R. B. McKersie, and J. Chalykoff, “The
Effects of Corporate Strategy and
Workplace Innovations on Union Representation,” Industrial
and Labor Relations Review,
39 (1986), pp. 487–501; see also J. J. Lawler and R. West,
“Impact of Union-Avoidance
Strategy in Representation Elections,” Industrial Relations, 24
(1985), pp. 406–420.
Campaign Theme Frequency (%)
92. Bargaining impact themes 66
Strikes may occur 40
High union dues 33
Potential for fines and assessments by the union 24
Unions cannot guarantee any changes 14
Possible plant closing 14
Bargaining may actually reduce wages, benefits, etc. 5
Antiunion themes 35
Union will interfere with good worker-management relations 7
Union dominated by outsiders 13
Union has failed elsewhere 6
Union is corrupt 9
Union is radical or leftist 6
Union will subject workers to rules 6
Unionism is inconsistent with employee and community values
1
Pro-company themes 20
Management is a friend to workers 7
Workers already enjoy high wages and/or good working
conditions 9
Give company another chance 8
TABLE 7.4
Relative
Frequencies of
Common Employer
Campaign Themes
Source: Adapted from
J. J. Lawler, Unionization
and Deunionization: Strategies,
Tactics, and Outcomes
(Columbia: University
of South Carolina Press,
1990), p. 149.
93. 212 Labor Relations
activities, a higher frequency of strikes, a high turnover of
represented
employees, low union density in the industry, and affiliation
with a large
national union. 53
Since the 1950s and 1960s, decertification elections have
increased from
5 percent of all elections to between 12 and 25 percent.
Decertifications
are strongly related to macroeconomic measures, institutional
changes
reflected in increasing ULPs, relative reductions in social
spending as
unemployment increases, and a Republican administration in
office. 54
JOB STRUCTURING
Employers and unions may be involved in a continual battle
about whether
jobs fall within the jurisdiction of the bargaining unit or not. At
the time
that an election is held, the NLRB defines what jobs and what
employees
are within the bargaining unit. As noted, the law requires that
professionals
affirmatively agree to be part of a bargaining unit before they
can be included.
If the nature of the work design is changed radically and skill
requirements
94. are increased, the employer may argue that the jobs required to
perform the
work are no longer a part of the bargaining unit as it was
defined at election
time. If, at the same time, low-skilled jobs are outsourced, the
bargaining
unit is gradually hollowed out by job design changes, and
bargaining power
is lost. Exhibit 7.2 contains information regarding job
jurisdiction demands
made by the Communications Workers of America (CWA)
during its 2000
negotiations with Verizon that resulted in a lengthy strike.
Summary Differences between capitalistic and trade union
philosophies related to
the operation of the workplace cause inevitable conflicts.
Employers have
long resisted attempts to unionize, with industrial-type unions
having lit-
tle success in organizing workers until passage of the Wagner
Act. Follow-
ing a “corporatist” period of about 30 years after World War II,
in which
management generally conceded a legitimate role for labor,
employers
took a harder line against organizing and bargaining beginning
in the late
1970s. Currently, many employers have a union-free
employment goal and
implement strategies to avoid new organization and to eliminate
current
unionization in their firms.
Unionization has a variety of economic effects on employers.
In general,
95. productivity of unionized workers is higher than that of
nonunion work-
ers in manufacturing and construction but not in the service
sector. Union
53 See J. C. Anderson, G. Busman, and C. A. O’Reilly III,
“What Factors Influence the Outcome
of Union Decertification Elections?” Monthly Labor Review,
102, no. 11 (1979), pp. 23–31;
and D. A. Ahlburg and J. B. Dworkin, “The Influence of
Macroeconomic Variables on the
Probability of Union Decertification,” Journal of Labor
Research, 5 (1984), pp. 13–28.
54 E. A. Nilsson, “The Growth of Union Decertification: A Test
of Two Nonnested Theories,”
Industrial Relations, 36 (1997), pp. 324–348.
Chapter 7 Union Avoidance: Rationale, Strategies, and
Practices 213
members earn a substantial pay premium. Where unions have
negotiated
wage and benefit improvements, employers generally pass these
along to
unorganized workers as well. Thus, the cost of unionization is
not fully
related to unionized workers only. Studies of stock price
changes associated
with unionization and deunionization generally find that share
prices fall at a
higher-than-expected rate when unionization or attempts to
unionize occur.
Employers implement a variety of practices in an attempt to
96. remain
union-free. Employers adopting a philosophy-laden approach
create an
employment relationship that fits a particular culture and
manner of
treating employees. As a result, employees see their situations
as being,
in most respects, as good as or better than what they would be
able to
negotiate if they were represented. In other, more traditional
approaches,
employers may purposely implement a set of employment
practices that
closely mimic a unionized environment, thereby reducing the
likelihood
that issues would arise to lead to unionization.
Some of the areas on which nonunion employers focus in their
avoid-
ance of unionization include plant location decisions, wage and
benefit
policies, staffing practices, and employee grievance systems.
Preventive programs involve attitude surveys, surveillance,
employee
communications, and supervisor training. If an organizing
attempt takes
place, intensive communications, hiring consultants, and
procedural delays
are often implemented. If the union wins recognition, the
employer may
take an intransigent approach to bargaining an initial contract.
Decertifications are an increasing proportion of NLRB-
conducted elec-
tions. These must be initiated by employees during a period in
97. which a
contract is not in effect.
CWA POSITION ON JOB SECURITY IN
BELL ATLANTIC/VERIZON BARGAINING
(2000)
CWA wants limitations on the movement of
work as Bell Atlantic consolidates its merger
with GTE. This would extend the assurances we
won in negotiations when Bell Atlantic merged
with Nynex.
CWA is fighting for real, enforceable limits on
subcontracting. Far from using subcontracting
to give it flexibility to handle booming business
needs from time to time, Verizon’s subcontract-
ing of work is widespread and constant.
CWA is seeking to bolster organizing rights
for the company’s growing and nonunion wire-
less operation. CWA’s goal is to help raise job
standards for these workers and increase the
opportunity for workers through Verizon to be
able to transfer into new areas of the company.
Verizon Wireless is the only major wireless oper-
ation in the telecommunications industry where
such organizing rights language hasn’t yet been
negotiated.
Source: www.cwa-union.org/telecombarg/verizon/
issues.asp, August 29, 2000.
Exhibit 7.2
98. 214 Labor Relations
1. Is the increasing resistance of employers to unionization a
new phe-
nomenon or simply a return to the historic relationship that has
existed
between unions and managements in the United States?
2. Would you expect a stronger anti-union response from an
employer in
manufacturing or an employer in a service industry?
3. In today’s increasingly competitive employment
environment, would
you expect to find many (or any) employers taking a
philosophy-laden
approach?
4. Should public policy change in some way so that unions that
win rep-
resentation rights have a guarantee that they will be able to
negotiate a
first contract?
Discussion
Questions
Key Terms Company union, 193
Doctrinaire organization, 197
Philosophy-laden, 197
Open-door policies, 204
GMFC is planning to expand its U.S. oper-
ations by building a new plant that will
employ about 500 production workers. This
99. new plant will manufacture motorized recre-
ational equipment, including all-terrain vehi-
cles, personal watercraft, and snowmobiles.
The equipment will assemble mechanical
components produced in other GMFC opera-
tions or purchased from suppliers. The new
plant will fabricate fiberglass body parts and
complete the final assembly process.
GMFC would like to operate the new
plant union-free. It’s likely that the United
Automobile Workers (UAW), and perhaps
other internationals, will attempt to organize
the workforce within a year after start-up. You
are a member of a planning committee for the
new plant. Your primary area of responsibil-
ity involves issues related to potential union-
ization and labor costs. What advice would
you provide to the company on size, loca-
tion, staffing, wages and benefits, and other
employee relations issues that would help
GMFC keep the new plant union-free and
competitive?
Case: Locating the New Recreational Vehicle Plant
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Chapter Six
Union Organizing
Campaigns
This chapter is the first of two chapters that examine how
unions organize
new bargaining units and how and why employers attempt to
avoid being
unionized. Chapter 6 covers union organizing campaigns, the
election
process, and the roles of the National Labor Relations Board
(NLRB) and
the National Mediation Board (NMB). Chapter 7 covers
employers’ overall
strategies for avoiding unionization and operating without
unions.
Recall from Chapter 2 the long history of employer resistance
to union
organizing in the United States. In the mid-1930s the Wagner
Act strongly
facilitated and institutionalized collective bargaining as the
preferred
method for resolving workplace conflicts where employees
chose it.
Recall also from the introductory chapters that employees
become union-
ized only if a single union receives a majority of votes from
employees in
the unit. The concept of exclusive representation establishes a
“winner-
takes-all” outcome in representation elections. This
requirement, which
113. contributes to the adversarial relationship that exists between
employers
and unions, begins with an organizing campaign.
Organizing is highly adversarial and heavily regulated. Most
employ-
ers actively resist. Union campaigns usually stress unfair
treatment by
employers, the lack of a forum for effectively voicing
complaints, and the
necessity of organizing to gain outcomes the employer should
grant but
won’t without unionization. Organizing campaigns are waged
intensively
by both sides. The NLRB or NMB acts as a referee in the
process. Where
recognition disputes occur, the boards provide a forum for their
settlement
and rule on the permissibility of the parties’ campaign conduct,
if ques-
tioned. From a regulatory standpoint, this chapter will focus
primarily on
the NLRB’s role since the preponderance of elections are
conducted under
its auspices.
Chapter 1 introduced some of the reasons that workers
unionize. This
chapter examines the flow of organizing campaigns,
involvement of the
NLRB, strategies and tactics used by employers and unions
during elec-
tion campaigns, and recent results in NLRB-monitored
representation
114. Chapter 6 Union Organizing Campaigns 153
elections. Chapter 7 focuses in detail on employers’ increasing
interest in
operating “union-free” and the strategies and tactics they use
to avoid
unionization.
In studying this chapter, consider the following questions:
1. At what points and in what ways is the NLRB involved in
representa-
tion elections?
2. What effects have employer campaigns had on union
organizing
success?
3. What strategies and tactics do employers and unions use
during orga-
nizing campaigns?
4. How successful are unions in organizing new units?
5. What new strategies are unions now using, and how
effective are they?
ORGANIZING AND UNION EFFECTIVENESS
Chapter 1 noted that unions create an opportunity through
negotiated
contracts for employees to have a voice in addressing workplace
problems
and effectively create a labor supply monopoly. Monopoly
power gener-
ally leads to a union wage premium.
115. The ability to gain a wage premium depends on the proportion
of an
industry that is organized. This means that unions have a strong
interest
in organizing workers in industries and labor markets where
nonunion
competition reduces their monopoly power. However, with
increasing
globalization, eliminating nonunion competition is impossible.
Unions depend on members’ dues to operate. More members
create
economies of scale. Thus the level and scope of member
services are related
to some extent to a union’s size. Organizing new units,
accreting expanded
facilities, and merging with or absorbing other unions are all
mechanisms
used to expand membership and enhance union effectiveness.
Strategies
and tactics that increase the probability of success in organizing
and main-
taining majority status in existing units should lead to greater
chances for
effectiveness in bargaining and representation.
HOW ORGANIZING BEGINS
Campaigns to organize unrepresented workers begin at either
the local
or the national union level. National unions target specific
employers or
geographic areas and send professional organizers to encourage
and assist
local employees in unionizing. Sometimes organizers apply for
116. jobs in the
targeted firm to gain closer contact with employees. Employers
cannot
legally refuse to hire applicants based on union membership or
concur-
rent union employment even if their primary purpose is to
organize the
154 Labor Relations
workforce. 1 National union campaigns often occur if a
unionized firm
opens a new nonunion plant. The union representing employees
in the
firm’s other plants campaigns to organize the new plant to
maintain com-
mon employment practices across the firm. National organizing
may also
1 NLRB v. Town & Country Electric Inc., 516 U.S. 85 (1995).
See also M. D. Lucas, “Salting and
Other Union Tactics: A Unionist’s Perspective,” Journal of
Labor Research, 18 (1997), pp. 55–64.
Yes
No
Yes Yes
No No
Yes
119. FIGURE 6.1 Sequence of Organizing Events
Chapter 6 Union Organizing Campaigns 155
target nonunion firms in predominantly unionized industries.
Most orga-
nizing begins at the local level when some employees decide
they would
be better off if they could bargain collectively with the
employer. 2
The Framework for Organizing
Organizing begins with an authorization card campaign and
most often
ends with the NLRB certifying the election results. Figure 6.1
presents a
generalized sequence of the organizing events that will be
described in
the following sections. This section covers activities leading to
a recogni-
tion request, petitions to the NLRB for elections, and elections
in which
bargaining-unit determination is uncontested. Subsequent
sections exam-
ine bargaining-unit determination, the election campaign, and
election
certifications.
Authorization Card Campaign
An authorization card campaign tries to enroll employees in
the union
in the unit the union seeks to represent. Organizers contact
employees
individually to persuade them to sign cards authorizing the
120. union to act
as their agent in negotiating wages, hours, and terms and
conditions of
employment. Figure 6.2 shows an authorization card.
Recognition Requests
If a majority of workers signs authorization cards, the union
can request rec-
ognition as the employees’ bargaining agent. A union seldom
requests rec-
ognition unless a substantial majority has signed because
employers often
question whether some workers are eligible to be represented or
to vote in
an election. Employers faced with a recognition request usually
claim that
the union’s majority status is doubtful. The union may offer to
have a neu-
tral third party match the authorization card signatures with an
employee
list to determine whether a majority actually exists. If a
majority has signed
and the employer is satisfied with the appropriateness of the
proposed bar-
gaining unit, the employer can grant recognition voluntarily. 3
2 For an expanded examination of union organizing activities
and permissible active
management responses, see K. Bronfenbrenner, S. Friedman, R.
W. Hurd, R. A. Oswald, and
R. L. Seeber, eds., Organizing to Win: New Research on Union
Strategies (Ithaca, NY: Cornell
University Press, 1998); M. A. Spognardi, “Conducting a
Successful Union-Free Campaign:
A Primer (Part I),” Employee Relations Law Journal, 24, no. 2
(1998), pp. 35–42; M. A.
121. Spognardi, “Conducting a Successful Union-Free Campaign: A
Primer (Part II),” Employee
Relations Law Journal, 24, no. 3 (1998), pp. 31–55; and J. J.
Lawler, Unionization and
Deunionization: Strategy, Tactics, and Outcomes (Columbia:
University of South Carolina
Press, 1990).
3 See J. W. Budd and P. K. Heinz, “Union Representation
Elections and Labor Law Reform:
Lessons from the Minneapolis Hilton,” Labor Studies Journal,
20, no. 4 (1996), pp. 3–20, for
an example of a situation in which the employer agreed ahead of
time to a card check as an
appropriate method for determining majority status.
156 Labor Relations
A union may picket an unorganized employer for up to 30 days,
demanding recognition as the employees’ bargaining agent. This
rarely
happens, but if it occurs, the employer can petition the NLRB
for an elec-
tion in the employee unit the union seeks to represent. If the
union loses,
further recognitional picketing would be an unfair labor
practice (ULP).
Representation Elections
Representation elections are held to determine whether a
majority
of employees desires union representation and, if so, by which
union.
Elections in units where employees are not currently
represented are
122. called certification elections. If employees are currently
represented, but
at least 30 percent of them indicate they do not want continued
represen-
tation, a decertification election is held. If a majority votes
against rep-
resentation, the union loses representation rights. So-called
raid elections
occur when at least 30 percent of employees indicate they would
prefer a
different union to represent them. Elections cannot be held if an
election
result was certified within the previous year. Decertification
elections
may not be held while a contract is in effect. Figure 6.3
shows that if inter-
est in an election is sufficient, the union (or the employer in the
absence
of a demand for recognition) can petition the NLRB to hold an
election
to determine employees’ desires. The next section traces the
basic steps
involved in conducting an election.
I, the undersigned employee
(Company)
authorize the International Association of Machinists and
Aerospace
Workers (IAM) to act as my collective bargaining agent for
wages, hours
and working conditions. I agree that this card may be used
either to
support a demand for recognition or an NLRB election at the
discretion of
the union.
123. Name (print) Date
Home Address
City
Job Title
Sign Here
Phone
State
Dept.
Zip
Shift
X
Note: This authorization to be SIGNED and DATED in
Employee's own hand-
writing. YOUR RIGHT TO SIGN THIS CARD IS PROTECTED
BY FEDERAL LAW.
RECEIVED BY (Initial)
FIGURE 6.2
Authorization Card
Chapter 6 Union Organizing Campaigns 157
124. Election Petitions
The union may petition the NLRB to hold an election in the
unit it is try-
ing to organize and include the signed authorization cards as
evidence of
support. The NLRB checks the signed cards against a roster of
employees
in the unit. If fewer than 30 percent have signed, the petition is
dismissed.
If more than 30 percent have signed, the union is legally within
its juris-
diction, and if the employer doesn’t contest the appropriateness
of the
proposed unit, the NLRB schedules an election. The employer
frequently
contests the makeup of an appropriate bargaining unit,
requiring that
the NLRB decide which employees should be included. The
criteria the
board uses to decide whether a proposed unit is appropriate are
discussed
later in this chapter.
When an appropriate bargaining unit is defined and at least 30
percent
of employees in the unit have signed authorization cards, the
NLRB will
order an election unless the union withdraws its petition. If the
union
Intervention
Second union
begins organizing
Union pickets
125. for recognition
Yes
Union requests
election
No
NoNo
Yes Yes
No No
Recognition
Union requests
recognition
Employer
requests
election
Election
denied
NLRB orders
election
30%Majority
Employer
recognizes
Union is bargaining
126. representative
Yes
Yes
Intervention
denied
10%
No
Employee(s)
request election
Decertification
Picketing
FIGURE 6.3 Avenues to Election Petitions
158 Labor Relations
receives a majority of the eligible votes cast, the board certifies
it as the
employees’ bargaining agent and contract negotiations can
begin. If the
union loses, the board certifies the results, and elections are
barred in that
unit for one year. In effect, certification guarantees the union or
nonunion
status of a bargaining unit for at least one year. 4
127. An election petition may be filed by a union, employer, or
employee.
In certain types of elections, employers cannot file petitions
because
early petitions might preempt union campaign efforts. Proof of
inter-
est must be shown when a petition is filed or within 48 hours.
The
union must specify the group of employees it desires to
represent. If
an employer has had a recognition demand, it can directly
petition the
board to hold an election. A union or an employee can file a
decertifica-
tion petition asking for removal of the present bargaining agent.
Under
certain stringent conditions, an employer may petition for a
decertifica-
tion election if it has a good-faith doubt about the union’s
continued
majority status, but an employer cannot withdraw recognition
until a
lack of majority status is proved. 5
Preelection Board Involvement
There are two types of elections: (1) consent elections, in
which the par-
ties agree on the proposed bargaining unit and on which
employees will
be eligible to vote, and (2) board-directed (petition) elections,
in which
the NLRB regional director determines, after hearings, an
appropriate
bargaining unit and voter eligibility. In a petition election, the
employer
must provide within 7 days a so-called Excelsior list
128. containing names
and addresses of employees in the designated bargaining unit. 6
After 10
days but within 30 days, the election will normally be held.
Figure 6.4
details board procedures before the election.
The Election
The NLRB conducts the secret-ballot election. Company and
union observ-
ers may challenge voter eligibility but cannot prohibit anyone
from voting.
After the votes are counted and challenges decided, the choice
receiving a
majority is declared the winner. If more than two choices (e.g.,
two differ-
ent unions and no union) are on the ballot and none obtains an
absolute
majority, a runoff is held between the two highest choices.
After any chal-
lenges are resolved, the regional director certifies the results.
Figure 6.5
shows an NLRB election ballot.
4 Brooks v. NLRB, 348 U.S. 96 (1954).
5 T. C. Stamatakos and T. J. Piskorski, “Levitz Furniture:
NLRB Rewrites the Book on Employer
Efforts to Oust Incumbent Unions,” Employee Relations Law
Journal, 27 (2001), pp. 31–44.
6 Excelsior Underwear, Inc., 156 NLRB 1236 (1966).
Chapter 6 Union Organizing Campaigns 159
Outline of representation procedures under Section 9(c)