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Labor Relations Project Paper
Happy Trials, LLC is a medium-sized independent living home. It is an eldercare and a for-profit facility located in a suburban environment. Happy Trials reduced overtime allotments of its seasoned patient care staff and terminated several registered nurses to compete, to become more attractive, and to build on its long-term care for patients. The realignment happened because of the changing economy and patient access from the suburban areas to the city. Licensed Practical Nurses (LPNs) replaced registered nurses. LPNs received lower compensation and fewer benefits. LPNs later discovered that other health care facilities are unionized members and well represented by an experienced union business agent. Happy Trails are displeased because the facilities unionization has gotten LPNs' attention. Happy Trails and the LPNs are seeking advice. A-Team dissertation will explore some of the parameters associated with LPNs' decision, Happy Trails' solution, and address each of them in more details. In addition, this dissertation will also describe the basic labor laws as it pertains to each situation.
Unions are composed of no supervisory or no managerial employees, including part time workers (Bennett-Alexander & Hartman, 2007). One of the most important things a labor union can do is give voice to the disenfranchised and fight for those who have no powerful advocates. The union is always fighting an uphill battle to ensure that all working people are entitled to fair treatment and the means to earn a decent living. E. Bernard (2006), Executive Director of Harvard Trade Union Program, believes unions are an important part of how socialists seek to make economic-justice principles come alive. She believes in order for unions to succeed, they need to have a wider social vision. Pure and simply trade unionism is not possible. Most unionists recognized that politics is important to the labor movement. E. Bernard believes there is nothing that...