Examples of Union in the following topics:
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- The SEIU, or service employees international union, is the fastest growing union in North America.
- Other forms of unionism include minority unionism, solidarity unionism, and the practices of organizations such as the Industrial Workers of the World, which do not always follow traditional organizational models.
- Union membership had been declining in the US since 1954.
- Most of the recent gains in union membership have been in the service sector while the number of unionized employees in the manufacturing sector has declined.
- Although most industrialized countries have seen a drop in unionization rates, the drop in union density (the unionized proportion of the working population) has been more significant in the United States than elsewhere.
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- The primary activity of the union is to bargain with the employer on behalf of union members and negotiate labor contracts.
- In order to achieve these goals unions engage in collective bargaining: the process of negotiation between a company's management and a labor union.
- However, the reality of unions is more complex.
- As an organized body, unions are also active in the political realm.
- One tool that unions may use to raise wages is to go on strike.
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- At least 30% of employees must sign petition cards requesting a union.
- If over 50% of the employees sign an authorization card requesting a union, the employer can voluntarily choose to waive the secret-ballot election process and just recognize the union.
- The labor union, through its leadership, bargains with the employer on behalf of union members and negotiates labor contracts (collective bargaining) with employers.
- The agreements negotiated by the union leaders are binding on the union members and the employer, as well as, in some cases, non-member workers.
- These unions are often divided into locals and united in national federations.
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- Congress to regulate, charter, and supervise federal credit unions.
- The National Credit Union Administration (NCUA) is the United States independent federal agency that supervises and charters federal credit unions.
- The chartering of credit unions in all states is due to the signing of the Federal Credit Union Act by President Franklin D.
- As the insurer and regulator of federally chartered credit unions, the NCUA oversees credit union safety and soundness, much like the FDIC.
- It is sometimes required to place credit unions in conservatorship.
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- Credit unions are substitutes and competitors of banks, owned by members as a financial cooperative.
- Credit unions usually offer better rates on deposits and lower costs for loans
- Credit unions offer access to borrowing options not always available at traditional banks
- Credit unions increase competition (big banks tend to be oligopolies, while credit unions are intrinsically smaller in scale, thus high in quantity)
- Credit unions are smaller, and therefore more likely to go out of business
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- Labor unions have lost power in the United States over the years and, today, union membership varies by sector.
- Most of the recent gains in union membership have been in the service sector, while the number of unionized employees in the manufacturing sector has declined.
- Historically, the rapid growth of public employee unions since the 1960s has served to mask an even more dramatic decline in private-sector union membership.
- Although most industrialized countries have seen a drop in unionization rates, the drop in union density (the unionized proportion of the working population) has been more significant in the United States than elsewhere.
- Unions no longer carry the "threat effect:" the power of unions to raise wages of non-union shops by virtue of the threat of unions to organize those shops.
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- Labor trends include a declining union movement in the US, public sector unions, women leaders, and international unions.
- Most unions were opposed to Reagan in the 1980 presidential election.
- Linked to the ITUC, but autonomous, are the global union federations, which seek to bring unions together along sectoral lines.
- Then there are scores of inter-regional federations, such as the European Trade Union Confederation, the International Confederation of Arab Trade Unions, and the Organization of African Trade Union Unity.
- Summarize the recent history of the labor union movement in America
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- While more than one-third of employed people belonged to unions in 1945, union membership fell to 24.1 percent of the U.S. work force in 1979 and to 13.9 percent in 1998.
- Dues increases, continuing union contributions to political campaigns, and union members' diligent voter-turnout efforts kept unions' political power from ebbing as much as their membership.
- Automation is a continuing challenge for union members.
- The shift to service industry employment, where unions traditionally have been weaker, also has been a serious problem for labor unions.
- As if these difficulties were not enough, years of negative publicity about corruption in the big Teamsters Union and other unions have hurt the labor movement.
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- Declare that every union officer must act as a fiduciary in handling the assets and conducting the affairs of the union.
- Limit the power of unions to put subordinate bodies in trusteeship, a temporary suspension of democratic processes within a union.
- Provide certain minimum standards before a union may expel or take other disciplinary action against a member of the union.
- While intended largely to limit union corruption and create a more equitable power structure within the unions, the Act was not without flaws in this regard.
- On the other hand, it cannot be said that union corruption and abuses of union power have disappeared.