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Industrial Relations Systems Framework Of Employment Relationships

INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS SYSTEMS FRAMEWORK OF EMPLOYMENT RELATIONSHIPS

Goals
 Video: employees want an increase in wages, but employers want to implement a profit-sharing system
 Now: employees want locked in jobs, and promises for future products at U.S. plants and standard agreements on wages and benefits, employers want to win a contract with union workers that allows it to narrow the wage gap with Asian competitors by making retiree health care a union burden
 Both situations connect in the way that the employees want job security and greater wages, and also that the company is searching for ways to lower costs

Economic Environment
 In both situations, there is no real effect on consumers, as GM has a good stock of vehicles already

Employees and their Organizations
 Video: workers and managers perceived each other as enemies for years
 Video: employees want an increase in wages, but employers want to implement a profit-sharing system
 Now: employees want locked in jobs, and promises for future products at U.S. plants and standard agreements on wages and benefits, employers want to win a contract with union workers that allows it to narrow the wage gap with Asian competitors by making retiree health care a union burden
 Video: Bob White is victorious over GM, and UAW and CAW become separate

Employers and their Hierarchy
 In both cases, the employers have power over the employees, but the employees also have the power of a union
 Employers need to work with union members to come to an agreement which satisfies both parties as much as possible

Government
 Video: treatment of employees not good at all, as there is no cooperation between employers and employees

Outcomes

Intermediate
 In both situations, a strike follows

Final
 Video: UAW and CAW are now two separate organization
 Now: employees want locked in jobs, GM wants to win a contract with union workers that allows it to narrow the wage gap with Asian...