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Organized Labor: A Case Study

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Organized Labor: Is it Helping Workers at the Expense of the Company? Robert F. Lynch Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University Abstract For generations, battles have been fought between workers and employers over wages, benefits, work hours, and workplace safety. To be heard with one, strong voice, in solidarity, workers began to organize into unions. These unions gave the workers leverage in the fight to gain security in their demands with the threat of possible work slow-downs or stoppages. Over the years unions helped to elevate the working man and woman by improving conditions at work which trickled over into home life. Unions have infiltrated both the private and public sectors, holding strongest in modern times in latter. Have these improvements have come at a …show more content…

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