Chapter 14
Labor-Management Relations: Collective Bargaining and Progressive Employer Relations
Collective Bargaining and Progressive Employer Relations
Learning Objectives
- Understand the elements of labor-management relations and collective bargaining and their importance to strategic human resources management in health care
- Describe what a union is and why employees join unions
- Differentiate between collective bargaining rights for federal employees, state and local employees, and nonprofit employees
- Understand the current trends and issues in health care labor-management relations
There was a time when employees were considered to be the property of their employers. Workers had few rights and little say over their working conditions, wages, ...