What position do you think todays government takes towards u

What position do you think today\'s government takes towards unions?

Solution

From 1830\'s to 1932, the Government\'s position was anti-union - a Laissez Faire/Rugged Individualist mentality indeed. This altered to a pro0union approach in the period 1932 - 1945 when many laws were passed for supporting the union activities. This led to severe distress for the management and the position changed to a fair balance between union and management in the period after 1945 i.e. after the WWII.

After 1945, the Taft-Hartley Act was passed by the Congress which tried to keep a balance between the union and management. After 1947, many decisions were taken in favor of management in order to derive this balance. They include - mandating giving notice before calling a strike, prohibiting unfair labor practices by the unions, holding unions responsible for the member\'s action, providing employees with the right to not to join unions and so on. Relationship of unions are the organized crimes also came under the surveillance of the Landrum-Griffin Act.

Recently, however, again an anti-union trend has been observed. Many state governments are barring public employees from striking, beneath which the idea of breaking destroying particular unions, also known as \"union busting,\" lies. One of the prominent examples of union busting is President Ronald Reagan\'s firing of the members of the air traffic controllers union PATCO. The labor unions have declined in size to 11 percent of American workers belonging to unions, down from a figure of 30 percent under President Kennedy. However, the present president believes in working with both blue-collar and white-collar workers together and most recently, the relationship with the major union leaders of America and the executive government has reduced. However, the critics have already mentioned that the tactics of the government are to find handpicked of heavy unions and try to keep a good relationship with them for maintaining the business going good in most of the sectors.