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Labor Unions and Workers' Rights Guide

Learn about labor unions, collective bargaining, minimum wage laws, and employee rights under federal laws. Explore resources and historical changes in labor standards.

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Labor Unions and Workers' Rights Guide

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  1. Labor Unions

  2. Labor Unions • An organization of wage earners formed to serve the members' interests with respect to wages, benefits, and working conditions • Includes workers in numerous industries (recent growth among service sector & public sector workers) • Represent their members if management attempts to violate contract provisions

  3. National Labor Relations Act (Wagner Act) 1935 • Protects the rights of most workers in the private sector to… • Organize labor unions • Engage in collective bargaining • Take part in strikes and other forms of planned activity in support of their demands

  4. Collective Bargaining • Negotiation between organized workers and their employer(s) to determine wages, hours, rules, and working conditions

  5. Fair Labor Standards Act (FLSA) • Established minimum wage, overtime pay, recordkeeping, and child labor standards • Minimum wage of not less than $5.15 an hour • Overtime pay at a rate of not less than 1½ times their regular rates of pay is required after 40 hours of work in a work week • Compensatory time • Time off that is granted to a worker as compensation for working overtime

  6. Minimum Wage Laws in the U.S. • Historical Changes in Basic Minimum Wages • http://www.dol.gov/esa/programs/whd/state/MWHistoryTable.pdf • Current Minimum Wages • http://www.dol.gov/esa/minwage/america.htm

  7. Employee Rights • Breaks & Meal Periods • Federal law does not require lunch or coffee breaks • However, when employers do offer short breaks (about 5 to 20 minutes), Federal law considers the breaks work-time that must be paid • http://www.dol.gov/dol/topic/workhours/breaks.htm • http://www.dol.gov/esa/programs/whd/state/rest.htm • Work Hours • http://www.dol.gov/elaws/esa/flsa/screen6.asp

  8. Employee Rights (cont.) • Unemployment Insurance • Unemployment benefits to eligible workers who become unemployed through no fault of their own, and meet certain other eligibility requirements of State law

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