Реферат: PostPatco Era Vs Ups And The Teamsters

laborers.

Fichtenbaum and Traynor (1997) noted that, the efforts of the labor

movement are steadily declining and companies are relying more on politicians to

solve their issues. The time has come for companies and politicians to be held

accountable for their actions and let laborers control their ?rights.? A recent event

(UPS and the Teamsters? labor movement) has taken place to help companies to

understand the problems of not complying with labor movements? requests and the

loss to companies as a whole. Clearly, future diplomatic strategies need to be

implemented to prevent strikes, along with more cooperative relationships, because

the cost can become long-term expenses.

Literature Review

Before the 1980s, the average union involvement?s totaled 1,306,300

workers with an average of 275 strikes (Grimes, 1995). This total fell after the

post- Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) era to an

average of 407,180 workers involved and 56 strikes. Grimes (1995), using a

regression model attempted to determine if the PATCO strike has significantly

contributed to the declining number of major strikes, but the empirical evidence

does not indicate that it has had a significant independent effect. The Reagan

Administration was one factor in the shift in labor law, supporting employers and

not organized labor in 1981. Reagan fired the employees of PATCO for illegally

striking and he decertified the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Association.

After the largest labor rally in American history, American laborers? hope was

slowly vanishing. The PATCO members risked their jobs, pensions, future rights

of employment with the US Government, possible severe individual and group

civil penalties and the heavy burden of criminal sanctions. All this with the idea

that they would make the future better for other workers.

The Clinton Administration also keyed in on issues related to workers?

rights. ?For twenty years the wages of working people have been stagnant or

declining?. For too many families, even when both parents were working, the