Union/Labor Collective Bargaining - Arbitration

1. State how production standards place managements and unions at odds against each other. Why do some unions prefer the right to strike in this matter while others prefer arbitration?

2. Explain how the enactment of the Occupational Safety and Health Act (OSHA) in 1970 succeeded in alienating both unions and managements. What did the Reagan and George H. W. Bush administrations, and organized labor, do to combat these occupational hazard issues?

3. Describe the common grounds for discharge and the procedural requirements that are outlined in many collective bargaining agreements. State why the following are important when these cases go to arbitration: (1) the demand for high standards of proof; and (2) the need for rules to be clear and specifically communicated; (3) weighing extenuating or mitigating circumstances

4. Explain several of the jobs that have gone by the wayside due to automation changes. Continue with a list of five employer benefits to technological upgrades, five undesirable features of the problem for workers, and why they are affected.