LABOR RELATIONS

MGMT 0301

RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT

1. Select ONE of the topics from the list that follows these instructions.

2. LOCATE at least five (5) different recent references that are about your selected topic. Examples of a reference include, but are not limited to: newspaper article, magazine or journal article, chapter in a book, monograph.

3. You may not use any source more than twice and you must have at least three (3) distinctly different types of sources. Examples of a source include, but are not limited to: daily newspaper, weekly newspaper, general circulation magazine, scholarly journal, monograph, web-site (however, you may not use more than one web-site as a source).

4. You are NOT to write a research paper. Instead, for EACH reference:

Begin on a separate page;

Identify the reference in accordance with the M.L.A. Style Standards, including, at least: title, author, source, publisher and date of publication, and any other information which may be appropriate to that reference or source. In addition, indicate how you located each reference.

Write a one or two paragraph abstract. (If your reference is a book, you may abstract one chapter or section.)

5. Your final project:

Must be professional in both preparation and presentation;

Must include a cover page indicating your topic and a Summary Sheet identifying your five references and at least three different types of sources from which your references were taken;

Must be thoroughly proof-read (spell check is NOT enough!)

6. PROJECTS THAT DO NOT COMPLY WITH THESE DIRECTIONS MAY BE REJECTED.

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RESEARCH PROJECT TOPICS

PLEASE REMEMBER: Your references must be about your selected topic. It is not enough that the reference merely mentions the topic. In addition, this is a course based upon United States labor relations. If your reference is from a foreign source, it must relate to the practice of labor relations in the United States. Foreign references that do not meet this requirement will be rejected. [Hint: If Labor is spelled labour, it is not from an American publication and likely will not be about American labor relations.]

AFL-CIO

Career opportunities in organized labor

Certification elections

Decertification elections

Change to Win Coalition

Cost of Living Adjustments [COLA] in labor contracts

[NOTE: COLAs are used in many situations this topic is limited to COLAs found in contracts between a union and an employer]

Employment at Will

Employee Free Choice Act

Unions Duty of Fair Representation

Final Offer (or Last Best Offer) Arbitration

Mother Jones [Mary Harris Jones, NOT the magazine of the same name]

National Emergency Strike Provisions of the Taft-Hartley Act

National Labor Relations Board functions

Organized labors response to outsourcing of jobs.

Business closings due to labor issues

[NOTE: businesses closing due to routine economic or financial issues, pandemic, or bankruptcy are NOT included only those caused by labor disputes]

Right to strike in the public sector

Right-to-Work laws

Rose Schneiderman

Trends in union membership

Two-tier wage contracts

Worker Adjustment and Retraining Notification (WARN) Act

ANY OTHER TOPIC IN LABOR RELATIONS OF INTEREST TO YOU