EMPLOYMENT LAW: UNIONS AND COLLECTIVE BARGAINING

Demonstrate your understanding of the rights of employees and employers in the process of unionization and collective bargaining.

https://time.com/4023296/american-labor-union/

Please watch this short video (Note you should have access to this video without subscribing.If you do not, you may do independent research and find an article or video that explains the history and current state of unions in the US).

Based on your reading, video, and independent research, please answer the following:

1. What is unionization?What is collective bargaining?
2. Do you believe that unions continue to play an important role today or do you believe that, in light of globalization, unions are a vestige of the past?
3. When speaking of COVID-19, consider this quote:"We've certainly seen this in the current pandemic, in the issue of so-called essential workers, the warehouse workers, the meat-packing workers, the delivery workers, who frankly are generally ignored by the public.But they have now received a lot of attention and their conditions have been highlighted, and companies like Amazon have found themselves facing rather unusual levels of public criticism and worker protest because of what is seen as a failure to adequately protect the health of their workers."How do you suspect COVID-19 and the threat of future pandemics/shutdowns will affect long term labor relations/ unionization in the US? (be sure to support your answer)
4. ***Be sure to reference your source and include page numbers where available.
5. ***your own words