Research Paper on:
Issues Involved in Collective Bargaining

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employers. Bibliography lists 3 sources. JGAbargn.rtf Collective Bargaining Research Compiled for Enterprises Inc. 10/2001   to Use This Paper Properly, INTRODUCTION Some of the key issues driving people to collective bargaining units is to improve the quality of the working  environment and to protest unfair layoffs. This paper tells about collective bargaining and what it is, and whether or not it is indeed a viable way for employees to  make their wants and needs known to employers. COLLECTIVE BARGAINING: WHAT IT IS Had it not been for the original formation of the Noble Order of the Knights of  Labor back in the mid eighteen hundreds, the American work ethic would have remained chaotic and in dire need of reorganization. The Knights were solely responsible for assembling some  kind of organized labor for the American worker, which included higher wages and better working conditions. These tenets had since been fortified as labor unions established more strength within  the workforce. When labor unions first appeared in the latter part of the nineteenth century, they quickly became a permanent characteristic of the social environment. Most everything concerned with  this new support for better working conditions and wages was met with great approval, effectively allowing the labor representatives to firmly establish their presence. In the mid eighteen hundreds,  the American work ethic was need of reorganization. Compared to the likes of France and Britain, where there existed exemplary occupational organization, Americans were hardly an exceptional working class.  Enter the Noble Order of the Knights of Labor, brought together as an outward attempt to assemble some semblance of organized labor for the overwrought American worker. The primary