Question

How should the law deal with threats by employers to abandon all or parts of their domestic operations for overseas locations if their unions fail to make appropriate economic concessions?

Should the NLRA be modified to prohibit strikes and lockouts in favor of arbitration of negotiation impasses or redefine good faith bargaining to require interest based bargaining?

Answer 1

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Outsourcing has threatened to kill American jobs. As more and more employers, companies and businesses seek to outsource their operations, the government has become critical about this. Americans are lacking jobs, and the levels of unemployment are always shooting up.. Therefore, what can the government do to stop this?

Laws should be enacted to ensure that all businesses that outsource their operations disclose all the jobs to be offshored. This will limit the number of businesses to be offshored and will bring the American jobs back to the Americans. Secondly, all customer operations should be transparent, and all businesses to be offshored should indicate their locations, so that the government can monitor their operations. Furthermore, the law should put a limit to the government contracts given to these employers for outsourcing their operations. This will ensure that the level of unemployment goes down since many businesses will operate in the country.

2 NLRA should not be modified to prohibit strikes. This is because it would be a step of denying the employees their rights. However, it could be modified to include the alternative mechanisms of solving disputes. Thus, it should provide for the strikes as the last option after all the other methods of solving disputes have been applied. Denying the employees a chance to strike could add much more powers to the employers., which could be misused. Thus, strikes should be allowed and should not be abolished as they are crucial where bargaining has hit a dead lock.