Respond to both of the following topics, and discuss your opinions.
Unfair Labor Practices: Labor unions and organizations are both equally blamed on unfair labor practices. Featherbedding is when an employer is being forced to hire a union member a regular employee.
You will select two unfair labor practices, one committed by management and the other by labor, and discuss these practices. For both management and labor, indicate why each case felt their actions were necessary.
Authentic Unions- Read the article titled More Perfect Unions, and discuss why their agents/representation are more successful at the bargaining table. Also, argue why you agree or disagree that Sports Unions are real unions, and reasons that support your opinion.Extra
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More Perfect Unions
Athletes are having success at the bargaining table.
Is there a lesson there for organized labor at large?
BY L. JON WERTHEIM
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The benefits of organizing
could be seen hours later when
MLB owners and players, once
among the most bitter rivals in
sports, agreed to a new five-year
labor deal. Although the owners
scored some major victories,
such as a hard cap of $5 million
per team for signing foreignborn amateurs, the players
and union leader Tony Clark
DECEMBER 12, 2016 / SPORTS ILLUSTRATED
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came out on top in areas of
great importance to their
side. There will be no hard
salary cap, long the union’s
highest priority. Reducing
draft-pick compensation
for free-agent signings will
encourage more player
movement. The players will
receive four additional days
off. And there will be no
international draft.
The NBA’s CBA doesn’t
expire until 2021, but either
side can opt out by Dec. 15,
and already there are signs
that this negotiation, will
also break favorably for
labor. Under the leadership
of executive director
Michele Roberts—who has
a far better relationship
in the public sector. Unions
have been diminished by
everything from legislation
to Supreme Court decisions
to a passive National Labor
Relations Board. And
despite the support Donald
Trump received from
blue-collar workers, it’s
hard to see improvements
coming under a president
who favors deregulation
and whose own hotels
have battled fiercely with
organized labor.
So why are sports unions
succeeding in the same
climate? First, the dynamics
and labor economics are
different from those in
other industries. MLB
players, for instance, have
There’s plenty of ways sports can
display a union’s virtues for
more conventional industries.
SPORTS ILLUSTRATED / DECEMBER 12, 2016
options and leverage that
auto workers don’t. “There’s
a reason why sports unions
are some of the most
powerful unions in the
world,” says Scott Rosner, a
sports business professor at
Penn’s Wharton School. “A
whole industry shuts down
if there’s a work stoppage.”
Despite those differences
there are plenty of ways
sports can be a reminder of
the virtues of a union for
other, more conventional
industries. There is
strength in solidarity. Large
victories are the eventual
result of previously won,
often minor, concessions.
And policies that would
otherwise be held up to
antitrust scrutiny—like a
wage scale—are exempt
because they’re the product
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Saves in one game by
Tony Bruns, a Morris
(Minn.) Area High senior
and goalie for Morris/
Benson, a national high
school record. Despite
that performance,
the Storm lost to host
Litchfield/Dassel–
Cokato on Nov. 26, 12–0.
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Score rolled by Sean
Osbourn, 24, at
Cooperfield Bowling
Center in his hometown
of Houston, making him
just the 29th bowler—
and the first in Texas—to
have three consecutive
perfect games.
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Laps raced this season
by Kasey Kahne, the most
in NASCAR’s Sprint Cup
Series. He didn’t hold
the lead in any of them.
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with commissioner Adam
Silver than her feckless
predecessor, Billy Hunter,
did with David Stern—the
players are expected to
improve on the current
approximate 50-50 split
of Basketball Related
Income. Even a modest
improvement will mean
a lot more money due to
the league’s $24 billion
television contract with
ESPN and Turner that
kicked in this season.
Yet while sports
unions have been able to
gain concessions from
management, organized
labor across the U.S. has
been losing ground. Fifty
years ago nearly one in
three American workers
was in a union. Today it’s
around 11%, and lower still
of collective bargaining.
Maybe more basically,
sports show that it’s possible
to organize even the most
diverse workforces. Consider
the NBA. The interests of,
say, Steph Curry are much
different from the interests
of a rank-and-file veteran,
which are different from
the interests of a rookie.
Yet individual concerns are
overcome by the power of a
united front.
In part for this reason,
it will be interesting to
see whether the athletes
in the (fiercely) individual
sport of ultimate fighting
can enjoy the success of
their colleagues in team
sports. The outcome will
depend on their ability to
band, and stay, together.
UFC will argue that
fighters are independent
contractors—by definition
not employees—and thus
can’t negotiate as a union.
But like their
counterparts in other
sports, the fighters’
increasing popularity,
marketability and skill sets
give them leverage that
previous UFC generations
may have lacked. A
victory for labor here could
lead to a set number of
guaranteed bouts per year,
better medical benefits in a
dangerous sport and, above
all, a far more equitable
split of the revenue. The
implications could extend
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