Question

DISCUSSION:

"Unions and OSHA"  Please respond to the following:

From the first e-Activity, evaluate the overall importance of the National Labor Relations Board. Next, summarize the pertinent details of the case that you have selected, and give your opinion of the Board’s decision and the fairness of the outcome. Support your response with specific details from the selected case.

From the second e-Activity, evaluate the overall importance of OSHA. Next, give your opinion of whether OSHA offers enough protection or overregulates the safety of workers. Support your response with specific details from the selected news story.

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Answer 1

Answer:-

• The significance of the National Labor Relations Board is quite vital as was established in order to implement the National Relations Act which is mainly focused on providing protection to both the employees and the employers and promoting the collective bargaining and stopping some specific private sector labor and management practices. The general welfare of the manpower, economy and the business can be harmed by these practices. The National Labor Relations Board helps the manpower by analyzing the requirement of having a union as their representatives. It also plays the role of as an acting agent so that any kind of unfair labor practices can be prevented which can be executed by the private sector employers and/or unions
• The case of Novelis Corporation case 03-CA-121293 will be discussed. In this case, the employer was looking to save some money by revisiting the wages paid to the manpower. The employees were given the option of selecting the working days per week. Sunday premium will be provided to the employee if he or she works on Sunday too. Overtime also includes working on holidays and vacations. The company declared to stop all these practices. One of the employees did not take it as a good measure and thus he approached the leader of a local union with the signature of more than 300 employee which was half of the total manpower. Following this, many unlawful activities such as threatening the employees with job loss, wage reduction, and poor working conditions were adopted by the employer which was a clear violation of NLRB guidelines. I am completely in favor of the finding as there can be many other ways of saving money for the organizations rather than cutting the wages of the manpower as it will also hamper the morale and productivity of the employees. If the employer wants to implement such kind of practices, then a new compensation plan should be offered by the employer.

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• The main objective of formation of OSHA under Occupational Safety and Health Act was to assist the organizations to facilitate the protection of the manpower and control the extent of workplace-related injuries, illness, and deaths. Before Occupational Safety and Health Act, there was an estimated death resulting from the job-related injury and more than 2.5 million workers were disabled. Having said this, the significance of OSHA cannot be exaggerated. In my opinion, facilitating the maximum assistance and protection to the manpower is the ultimate objective of OSHA. However, each unseen situation cannot be predicted but the focus of OSHA is to predict these trends and try to reduce these sorts of incidences. For example, in the new guidelines to the employers, all attempts must be made to protect the manpower of construction, maritime, hydraulic fracturing industries from their exposure to silica dust and this new guideline is expected to safeguard more than 600 individuals and preventing more than 900 new cases of silicosis per year which can reduce a total cost of $7.7 billion per year