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BUSINESS AND SOCIETY
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Describe the recent history of labor unions in the United States.

Answer 1

Business and Society: Business and society are the big topics and they are two homes for the people.

Business is the organization which engages the people and explores them for achieving their commercial interest or goal. Thus people who run the business are the essential resources needed for the business. Thus business fully depends on the human beings.

Society is formed by the human beings. Human beings are social animal and they cannot leave alone. They need to leave in the society, so that their needs can be fulfilled and they can live their life happily. People need money to run their social life. The people can get the money from businesses. Thus business provides the money to people for running their life. Thus people are fully dependent on business to earn their livelihood.

Hence we can say that business cannot survive without people and people cannot survive without business. Thus both are important for each other and we can say made for each other.

Unions in the Organization: the unions in the organization are the groups of employees to have a collective discussion for the labor and employee interest in the organization. The unions also protect the misconducts of management against the labor or employees. Thus the purpose of union was to protect the labor or workers interest in the company and provide a platform which can have dialogue and discussion with the management for the labor and workers.

Recent Labor Unions in the United States are as below: Following are the major labor unions in the united states are as below

• National Education Association
• Service Employees International Union
• United Foods and Commercial Workers International Union.
• International brotherhood of the teamsters.
• American federation of teachers.
• Laborers International Union of North America.
• International brotherhood of Electrical Workers.

The key reason for labor unions: Following are the key reason for which the labor unions are formed as below

• Ensure fair pay for the labors/workers
• Ensure fair working conditions for the labors/workers
• Ensure adequate Welfare programs for the labors/workers
• To provide timely compensation renewal for the labors/workers
• To avoid discriminations in the organizations
• To provide ethical treatment/ behavior, ethical standards in the work place
• To avoid misuse of labors/workers by the organizations.
• To support labor/workers to get their rights in the organization.

Benefits of labor unions:

• The labor union helps the labor/worker against the organization and provides a strong platform to have formal negotiations with the organization.
• Unite workers/labors so that they can have collectively bargains with the organization.
• Provide as a strong supporter for the labors/workers against the organization.