Labor-Management Relations

1. Solve labor-related problems as they occur

2. Treat employees fairly
Management Options in Labor Relations 3. Let employees find ways to solve their
labor-related problems
1. For collective bargaining with the employer
2. For self-preservation and protection
Why Employees Form and Join Unions 3. To belong to a group that will help them
secure entitlements provided by law
4. To protect themselves from human rights
abuses of the employers
A labor union may be defined as an
organization formed to represent the interest
What is a Labor Union of workers in bargaining with employees for
contracts concerning wages, fringe benefits,
and working conditions.
1. Crafts or Trade Unions – are those whos
membership consist of works engaged in a
particular trade.
Types of Labor Unions 2. Industrial Unions – are those whos
members are employed in a given industry
regardless of the type of work performed by
each member.
Union’s Contributions and Effects
A. To the Employee 1. Improvement of working rules, protection
from the employer and increase in job
security.
2. The grievance procedure negotiated by the
union assures employee full and just
consideration of his complaint.
3. Better terms and conditions of
employement (e.g. higher wages) through
bargaining collectively with management.
B. To the Employer 1. Lost the power to set wages without prior
discussion with the union.
2. Limited power to terminate or discipline
employees.
3. Union may provide management with
useful information about the status of
employee morale.
4. Cooperation in the grievance procedure
can prevent minor complaints from growing

Organizing a Union
Organizational Levels of Unions
Rights of Legitimate Labor
Organizations
Exempted from this Provision
Union Security
into major issues.
Steps in organizing a union:
1. Employee or Union contact
2. Initial organizational meeting –
Communication links with all employees can
be established in this step.
3. Formation of in-house organizing
committee.
4. Election petition and voting preparation –
filing a petition for certification election with
the Regional Office of the Department of
Labor and Employment.
5. Contract Negotiations – This final step
paves the way for contract negotiations to
begin.
1. Local Labor Union – one which draws
membership from a local industry or
company.
2. Independent Union – operates at the
enterprise or company level and whose legal
personality is derived through an
independent action for registration.
3. National Union – compose of at least ten
(10) local/chapters or affiliates each of which
must be a duly certified or recognized
collective bargaining agent.
1. To act or be certified as the exclusive
representative of all the employees in an
appropriate collective bargaining unit for
purposes of collective bargaining.
2. To own property, real or personal, for the
use and benefit of the labor organization and
its members.
3. To sue and be sued in its registered name
4. To undertake all other activities designed
to benefit the organization and its members,
including cooperative housing, welfare, and
other projects not contrary to law.
1. Security Personnel
2. Managerial Employees
Preservation of membership or a term
applied to a provision in a CBA wherby an
employer agrees with the recognized union
 to maintain in his firm certain conditions of
employment designed to protect the union
against loss of membership
Forms of Union Security
1. Open Shop The employees have total freedom to decide
whether of not they will join a union. Those
who will not join do not pay dues.
2. Closed Shop The company can hire only union members.
The union itself provides labor to the
organization.
3. Agency Shop All employees pay union dues whether or not
they are members of the union based on the
assumption that the union’s efforts benefit all
the workers.
4. Union Shop The company can hire non-union members
but they must join after a prescribed period
of time or lose their jobs.
5. Maintenance of Membership Shop Employees do not have to belong to the
union; however, union members employed
by the firm must maintain membership in the
union for the contract period.