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150 million workforces, pensioners and their household members receive their healthcare through occupation-based coverage, which, in accordance with the AFL-CIO, is the foundation of this nation state health care coverage and financing. Approximately one-third of occupation-based coverage comes through coalition-negotiated strategies. (The AFL-CIO, n.d.) However, through collective bargaining, coalition associates and their families have managed considerably sounder than non-alliance working individuals

Mackey Human Capital Management – HRM 531 02/12/2012 Instructor: Bob Hanks Labor Laws and Unions Abstract My family has an extensive history in the U.S. Postal Service therefore the appeal of the American Postal Workers Union, AFL-CIO was irresistible. My grandfather, godfather, aunt, brother-in-law and even I have worked for the USPS in one capacity or the other. As a student worker during my college days I found out why unions are important, and a necessity in the USPS. I was

Content Pages In the United States labor unions require the support of a majority of workers in order to haggle on behalf of workers and negotiate with employers. The term worker center is used to describe formal labor union affiliates. Worker centers support workers that do not go through the modern union-election process and do not have to express majority support. Worker centers can be replacements of traditional labor unions, and they are critical to the long-term future. In Amanda Becker’s

financed by the government through tax payments” (Department for Professional Employees: AFL-CIO, 2014). • “A national health insurance system, or single-payer system, in which a single government entity acts as the administrator to collect all health care fees, and pay out all health care costs. Medical services are publicly financed but not publicly provided” (Department for Professional Employees: AFL-CIO, 2014) • A multi-payer

The labor movement in the United States has had a turbulent history with not being equal to all in society. A key demographic that has fought for equality up to the present day is women. The time period following the second World War was a time in which the United States thrived economically and socially, separating themselves as the sole “world superpower”. During the War, many women enter the workforce to help with the rapid production that was necessary to meet the demands of the military.

George W. Bush is asking Congress for $80 billion more for the failed Iraq war. Congress is gearing up to pour more money to "stay the course" of the past two tragic years. Tell your Member of Congress that not one more dime should go to waging war in Iraq. Instead, the U.S. must end the occupation, bring our troops home, and support Iraqi sovereignty. Many good-intentioned people in the United States say we can't withdraw our troops now and abandon Iraqis to chaos and disorder. Yet the

Unionism, Bad for America Unionism is the concept that traditionally business, especially big businesses are inherently going to exploit their employees. Therefore, in order to protect themselves, the workers form organizations called unions, in which all laborers who work at a certain craft, or in a certain industry band together. By this process of “joining forces”, the unions gain power in numbers. Unions traditionally try to protect employee interests by negotiating with employers for wages

of the private sector work force in 1999, down from a peak of 37% 40 years earlier. The last time union membership was so low was in 1902, when the union members were 9.3% of the private sector work force… The current union leaders, led by AFL-CIO president John Sweeney, have no realistic plans to change course. They are presiding over the final, terminal stage of organized labor. And they like things just the way they are.

What If . . . Every Lobbying Contact Had to be Reported? 1. An advantage of requiring lobbyists to report each contact with a government official is that voters would know which lobbyists tried to influence their elected officials and it might slow down the process of raising money through afternoon cocktail parties. 2. A disadvantage of requiring lobbyists to report each contact with a government official is that it could lead to a feeling of loss of privacy by lobbyists and elected officials

concerning grievances, labor disputes, wages, rates of pay, hours of employment, or conditions of work ("labor organization," n.d., para. 5). An example of a labor organization for law enforcement is “The International Union of Police Associations AFL-CIO union”; it is exclusively chartered for active and retired law enforcement officers, with its sole mission to fight for the needs of the members male or female in law enforcement and their needs ("I.U.P.A," n.d.).