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2. BUS 372 Slingshot Academy / bus372master.com BUS 372 Entire Course BUS 372 Week 1 DQ 1 The Role of Unionization (New) • BUS 372 Week 1 DQ 1 The Role of Unionization (New) • BUS 372 Week 1 DQ 2 Meeting Member Needs (New) • BUS 372 Week 1 Quiz • BUS 372 Week 2 DQ 1 Federal Legislation • BUS 372 Week 2 DQ 2 NLRA Rules • BUS 372 Week 2 Assignment History of U.S. Labor Legislation (2 Papers) • The Role of Unionization [CLOs: 2, 5]. 1st Post Due by Day 3. What are some reasons management opposes unionization? Do you agree or disagree with these reasons? Why or why not? • Present your views in approximately 250 words in your initial discussion post. Respond to at least two of your peers’ posts. Utilize the course text, weekly lecture, and at least one other scholarly source.

3. BUS 372 Slingshot Academy / bus372master.com BUS 372 Week 1 DQ 2 Meeting Member Needs (New) BUS 372 Week 1 Quiz • Meeting Members’ Needs [CLOs: 3, 6]. 1st Post Due by Day 3. What were the driving forces that led people to sacrifice so much to form unions? Was it worth it? What benefits were derived? What sacrifices were made? • Present your views in approximately 250 words in your initial discussion post. Respond to at least two of your peers’ posts. • Quiz 1 • 1)      With regard to Henry Clay Frick, which of the following statement is NOT true? • 2)      Collective bargaining is the process whereby • 3)      Concerted activity • 4)      Master craftsmen • 5)      All of the following were true with regard to the case Commonwealth v.Pullis EXCEPT

4. BUS 372 Slingshot Academy / bus372master.com BUS 372 Week 2 Assignment History of U.S. Labor Legislation (2 Papers) BUS 372 Week 2 DQ 1 Federal Legislation • History of U.S. Labor Legislation [CLOs: 1, 3, 4]. Due by Day 7. Employers have a long history of using their power to abuse employees. Past employer practices have led to bloody conflicts. Over time, the development of Federal regulations has helped ease the tense employee/employer relationship. • Federal Legislation [CLOs: 1]. 1st Post Due by Day 3. How did federal legislation support the establishment of unions and union rights? If such legislation had not been passed, do you think that labor organizations would have developed? Would they have succeeded in establishing themselves?

5. BUS 372 Slingshot Academy / bus372master.com BUS 372 Week 2 DQ 2 NLRA Rules BUS 372 Week 2 Quiz • NLRA Rules [CLOs: 4]. 1st Post Due by Day 3. How have the NLRA rules about contact with employees failed to keep up with technology? • Present your views in approximately 250 words in your initial discussion post. Respond to at least two of your peers’ posts. Utilize the course text, weekly lecture, and at least one other scholarly source. Remember to properly cite your sources. • Quiz 2 • 1)      Closed shops are • 2)      During the attempted unionization of Allison Fabric Corporation, the union became quite aggressive in its attempts to reach workers at the plant, and union members took to standing outside the company gates so that they could hand out union literature to workers as they came and went from the plant. Which of the following statements is true?

6. BUS 372 Slingshot Academy / bus372master.com BUS 372 Week 3 DQ 1 Political Climate BUS 372 Week 3 DQ 2 Public Pensions and Employer/Labor Relations • Political Climate [CLOs: 2, 6]. 1st Post Due by Day 3. The National Labor Relations Board consists of five members, who serve staggered terms and who are appointed by the president of the United States. How do you think the president’s political outlook plays into who is appointed to sit on the board? How might this impact the decisions made by the board from presidential term to term? • Public Pensions and Employer/Labor Relations [CLOs: 5, 6]. 1st Post Due by Day 3. After reading the Dorfman article, “Public Pensions are Still Marching to Their Death”, respond to the following questions: • What are the political reasons public pensions are underfunded? • If the pension problem is political, what steps would have to occur to remedy the problem?

7. BUS 372 Slingshot Academy / bus372master.com BUS 372 Week 3 Quiz BUS 372 Week 4 Assignment Cost of Living (2 Papers) • Quiz 3 • 1)      With regards to the history of public unions, which of the following statement is NOT true? • 2)      In Endicott Interconnect Technologies v.NLRB, the court held • 3)      In 2005 the National Labor Relations Board • 4)      Where do matters before the National Labor Relations Board usually begin? • Cost of LivingThe City of St. Albans has a unionized police force that is coming up for a contract renewal. The police have one issue: the cost of living increases. During the past 10 years, police officers have received minimal cost of living increases, and this time they want to match what other police forces are making. They claim that their salaries are below the national level.

8. BUS 372 Slingshot Academy / bus372master.com BUS 372 Week 4 DQ 1 Collective Bargaining BUS 372 Week 4 DQ 2 Grievances, Mediation, Arbitration • Collective Bargaining [CLO: 5]. 1st Post Due by Day 3. Preparation for collective bargaining involves four steps. Pick a step to discuss and describe what happens in this step. Which of the steps do you think is the most important and why? What would happen if you eliminated one of the steps? Why? • Grievances, Mediation, Arbitration [CLO: 4]. 1st Post Due by Day 3. What are the major differences between negotiation, mediation, arbitration, and litigation? Make a chart showing each one’s advantages and disadvantages and justify why and when you would use each one.

9. BUS 372 Slingshot Academy / bus372master.com BUS 372 Week 4 Quiz BUS 372 Week 5 DQ 1 The Decline of Unions • Quiz 4 • 1)       All of the following are permissive subjects of bargaining EXCEPT • 2)       When a company is unionized, all of the following are true EXCEPT • 3)       Ways to identify the issue prior to collective bargaining include all of the following EXCEPT • The Decline of Unions [CLOs: 1, 2, 5]. 1st Post Due by Day 3. The decline of union membership in the United States raises questions about whether unions will continue to exist in their present configurations. What do you think are the major problems with unions that are costing them membership? Do you think that unions will survive, or do you think they will have to change? What do you imagine unions will look like in the future? Why?

10. BUS 372 Slingshot Academy / bus372master.com BUS 372 Week 5 DQ 2 Globalization BUS 372 Week 5 Final Assignment Summative Assessment (2 Papers) • Globalization [CLOs: 1, 2, 6]. 1st Post Due by Day 3. Globalization impacts all business, foreign and domestic. How does globalization impact a union in the United States? Is the impact positive or negative? What aspects of globalization do you think will have the greatest impact on unions? Why? • Summative Assessment [CLOs: 1, 3, 5, 6]. Due by Day 7. You are a worker in a fast growing, large, non-union manufacturing organization. You notice persistent systematic labor violations in the plant. The company has multiple locations in the United States and plants in China and France. People are complaining about the working conditions and wages

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