Order Description

A privately owned retirement community and nursing home facility employs nurses, nursing assistants, home care workers, cooks and food service employees, as well as custodians and groundskeepers. These employees submitted sufficient authorization cards to the NLRB to show interest in representation by the SEIU.

1. Should the NLRB include all these employees in the same bargaining unit or should it create multiple bargaining units? Please thoroughly explain your response.

2. What kinds of tactics may be used by a union in a union organizing campaign?

Chapters 7 & 8 Questions

1. Describe the steps that management and the union take to prepare for and ultimately reach a collective bargaining agreement.

2. Explain the concern that public sector workers have too much bargaining power. Is this concern legitimate?

3. Most government employees do not have the right to strike, regardless of their reason for wanting to do so. Why are strikes generally prohibited in the public sector?

4. Explain the circumstances under which a U.S. president is allowed to intervene in a labor dispute between management and a union that has resulted in a strike.