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Labor Relations Week 2. HRMG 5930 Labor Relations Webster University – Kansas City Instructor: Nathan Stewart. Week 2 Overview. Articles Chapters 2 & 3 Guided Lecture Cases Mini-cases Discussion Questions. Labor Relations Historical Framework. Historical Framework
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Labor RelationsWeek 2 HRMG 5930 Labor Relations Webster University – Kansas City Instructor: Nathan Stewart
Week 2 Overview • Articles • Chapters 2 & 3 Guided Lecture • Cases • Mini-cases • Discussion Questions
Labor Relations Historical Framework • Historical Framework • Rise & Fall of Union Membership (Exhibit 2-3) • Skilled Workers Unions - ~1800 • Closed Shop • Emergence of National Unions – 1850s
Labor Relations Historical Framework • Civil War & post-Civil War • Waves of immigrants • Use of machines • Widening wage gaps continued from war period • 1873 Depression • Employers & Unions Battle in 1870s
Labor Relations Historical Framework • Knights of Labor • Federation of Organized Trades and Labor Unions (FOTLU) - 1881 • American Federation of Labor (AFL) -1886 • Gompers 38 years
Labor Relations Historical Framework • Gompers’ Strategy • National Union autonomy • National Union exclusive jurisdiction • Focus on immediate wage-centered gains • Avoid alliances with politicians • Massive increase in AFL membership (3M 1917) • World War I
Labor Relations Historical Framework • Great Depression • Norris-LaGuardia Act 1932 • National Industrial Recovery Act 1933 • NLRA/Wagner Act 1935 • Congress of Industrial Organizations
Labor Relations Historical Framework • World War II • Taft-Hartley 1947 • The Merger AFL-CIO (pg73) • Landrum-Griffin Act of 1959 • Historical Framework Conclusion
Labor Relations Legal Framework • Judicial Control • Norris-LaGuardia Act of 1932 The Big Three • Wagner Act of 1935 • Taft-Hartley Act of 1947 • Landrum-Griffin Act of 1959