Reviewing the case study before us is a complicated issue that has yet to be fully vetted through our legal system. The case study reflects a situation where a company is accused of illegally terminating employees because of their unionization efforts. After a successful election campaign instituting union representation for a group of employees, the company that employed them decided to terminate twenty employees. The reasoning behind the firings stemmed from their union actives, and as such was an illegal retaliatory act. At times companies will launch initiatives to stop the progress of union activities within their organizations. Sometimes these efforts include increasing fear or conflict with the group. For these reasons, the National …show more content…
Unions have a documented history of providing improved working conditions and they provide employees with a voice to encourage management to fully consider requests or grievances (O'Brien, 2015). Subsequently, it is ironic that the employees discussed in the case study, clearly needed the assistance and protection provided through the union to ensure the company complied with federal and state employment laws. Enforcing fair employment practices with undocumented workers, requires that the issues be addressed …show more content…
Likewise, employers are prohibited from continuing to provide employment to an illegal immigrant once the information has become known. All employers are required to verify the eligibility of new hires through a process of examining identification documents and the completion of an I-9 form. However, beyond these measures the company is not required to authenticate documents or go through any additional background processes to confirm identity. Recently there has been increased media attention to the proposed border wall as a means of curbing illegal immigration. Generally, border security receives significant political attention; however, there is a means of addressing the issue that is less popular with corporations. Serious enforcement of laws currently in existence aimed at barring the employment of illegal immigrants is perhaps a better strategy to reduce the influx of immigrants coming into our country illegally. Laws have ascertained that employers who knowingly utilize fake names or incorrect social security numbers can be subject to criminal and civil penalties and injunctions. Since employment is the driving force behind illegal immigration into the US, shrinking the pool of potential jobs would theoretically reduce the number of people entering the company illegally. Otherwise, the
The paper will discuss minicases on ‘The White-Collar Union Organizer’ and ‘The Frustrated Labor Historians’ by Arthur A. Sloane and Fred Witney (2010), to understand the issues unions undergo in the marketplace. There is no predetermined statistical number reported of union memberships in this country. However, “the United Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) excludes almost 2 million U.S wages and salary employees, over half of whom are employed in the public sector, who are represented at their workplaces by a union but are not union members. Not being required to join a union as a condition of continued employment, these employees have for a variety of reasons chosen not to do so. Nor do the BLS estimates include union members who are currently unemployed” (Sloane & Witney, 2010, p.5). Given this important information, the examination of these minicases will provide answers to the problems unions face in organizational settings.
The case study of GMFC provides an example of a company attempting to avoid unionization of its workers. GMFC is expanding by building a new U.S. plant which will manufacture motorized recreational equipment. The company plans to hire about 500 production workers to assemble mechanical components, fabricate fiberglass body parts, and assemble the final products. In order to avoid the expected union campaign by the United Automobile Workers (UAW) to organize its workers, GMFC must implement specific strategies to keep the new plant union-free. GMFC’s planning committee offers suggestions with regards to the plant’s size, location, staffing, wages and benefits, and other employee relations issues in order to defend the company against the negative effects of unionization and increase...
as the leading economy in the world. As a result of a continued growth in population, there is a need of an increased workforce or professionals to offer services to the population. The sectors that might be affected because of increase in population include the health sector, education and R&D. By providing legal status for immigrants to work, the country will have enough human capital to use in the aforementioned sectors since the native-born professionals alone cannot serve an ever-increasing population in the United States (Becerra, Androff and Ayon 112). Providing legal status to undocumented immigrants in the United States is important in terms of the economy realizing maximum output.
Maybe we should look at these businesses that welcome the illegal work force. Immigrants will not stop flowing into the United States, the business is too big, and the money is too large. There is too much help available for the immigrants to get from there to here. Coyotes are available for the right price on both sides of the borders.
Union efforts to improve the lives of workers consistently met with resistance, oftentimes violent, from businesses, police and the government throughout their turbulent history; and yet unions have persevered and were able to improve working conditions. The National Labor...
In the past, many employers had simply ignored any union organization. The employers would simply ignore any rights put in place by unions, and even go so far as to fire union employees and union sympathizers. Employers would use spies to find out who was sympathetic to unions, and then circulate the names to other employers. These “blacklists” were used to fire employees and for other employers to decide whether or not a person ...
Jobs offered to undocumented immigrants are typically undesirable for United States citizens since they require manual and arduous labor in most cases. Fostering immigration in our immediate community, state, and country at large will benefit us in the long run. Not only will the economy grow, but we will also regain our nation’s identity as the home of promise. Immigration policies have the power to build or tear apart communities. While America should be cautious about the quantity of assistance afforded to illegal immigrants, the fear of losing jobs and money to them should not hinder our goal to expand the economy and assist newcomers.
Labor unions were established as a way for workers’ needs and grievances to be heard by management. According to Fossum (2012), “forming a union creates a collective voice to influence change at work” (p. 7). The collective voice of workers in a union holds much more power than any single employee’s voice. It can loudly draw attention to mistreatment or abuse of workers. The organized collective voice of workers demands to be treated in a fair way by its management in terms of wages, hours, benefits, and working conditions.
One of the most crucial requirements of any organization is completing Form I-9, otherwise called Employment Eligibility Verification. The purpose of the Form I-9 is to prove that every new employee hired by an organization is allowed to work in the United States. This form initially appeared on November 6, 1986, when President Ronald Reagan approve the Immigration Reform and Control Act. At that time, many people were concerned that undocumented immigrants were tempted to come to the United States because of the abundance of work opportunity. Thus, the Immigration Reform and Control Act was passed to improve, reexamine, and rectify the status of unauthorized immigrants presented in the Immigration and Nationality Act. More precisely, the act
Illegal immigration was an issue in the past and is a pressing problem in the present. The U.S. Government has been trying to find a resolution to this issue for years. The United States approved the Immigration Reform and Control Act in 1986, which allowed the American Government to punish American companies that consciously employed illegal immigrants (Nadadur 1037-1052). The United States’ Government Immigration Reform and Control Act has been unsuccessful in controlling illegal immigration. It is estimated that illegal immigration into the U.S. has a yearly interval of three hundred fifty thousand people (Rousmaniere 24-25). It is apparent that the 1986 act was not able to keep a handle on illegal immigration. Illegal immigration continues due to the fact that immigrants only take the jobs available to them, which in turn helps support the United States’ economy, so measures should not be taken to halt immigration.
If employment law protected illegal immigrants, this would act as a deterrent to employers from hiring illegal immigrants, as there would be a greater risk of immigrants seeking compensation for exploitation, making them more expensive to hire. Therefore, one criterion
The social workers in both videos gathered information regarding each of the client’s issues. Another common denominator in both videos is that both of the social workers repeated what the client had said in their own words to allow the client to feel heard and understood. In the first video, social worker Karen asked direct questions relating to Mike’s alcohol addiction while also addressing how the addiction impacts his relationships including his marriage. Karen also addressed inconsistencies with the client doing so appropriately and quickly. It appears that in the first video, Karen focuses on the reality of the issue at hand to assist the client with establishing and accepting
Also, illegal workers have come to the United States for decades. They even marry and have children in the United States. For years, those heavy, dangerous and low-pay jobs have been designated to illegal immigrants. Americans will not do those jobs. To fill up this shortage of workforce, the President need to provide working visas for those immigrants.
Research is a necessity when it comes to providing services. Social Workers need it to be able to determine their clients ' needs, to see what resources/services they have access to and if their client doesn 't have much access where can they get it. Research is also used to see how effective an intervention is and whether it would be a right fit for their clients. It provides social service agents with ways to identify problems within their clients, communities, organizations, and the government. Also it helps them to create ways to aid in effective change. It is very beneficial when a social worker needs to "assess the needs and resources of people in their environments, evaluate the effectiveness of social work services in meeting people
The social work profession is defined as “a practice-based profession and an academic discipline that promotes social change and development, social cohesion, and the empowerment and liberation of people (ISFW, ‘Global Definition of Social Work’, 2016).” The definition may be true about the profession but it is more in depth than just that. To me, the profession’s primary focus is to help others through life as much as we can while letting them make their own choices and guiding them. In society, social workers are utilized in many different nonprofit and government roles. They serve the community in many different ways from monitoring parent visits to helping people through mental illnesses. Human beings are so complex and things that happen