Why
Unions fight for these three things.
What is salary, benefits, and working conditions?
It has made working conditions ___
What is safer?
Unions can reduce this.
What is competition?
This union promotes a safe working environment, elevates the standards of nursing and advocates on health issues that affect everybody.
What is the American Nurses Association?
It gives this type of person more power in the business place.
What is a proletariat?
Unions provide people the power to do this with their employers.
What is negotiation?
Unions have been shown to aggravate this.
What is inflation?
This union advocates for the improvements of teachers’ lives, gives voices to teachers, and improves the quality of their teaching.
What is the American Federation of Teachers?
What employers used to do to stop unions
What is make employees sign contracts that prevented them from joining a union?
This benefit of unions helps to increase job stability.
What is the employer must have evidence to justify firing a union employee?
Employees may have a harder time being able to do this.
What is pursuing their career goals as they see fit?
IAM advocates for higher wages and protections for workers, and it stands for _____
This was the basic logic behind unions in order for employees to have more power to fight their employers.
What is strength in numbers?
Unions have helped to decrease these two things.
What are inequality and poverty?
Employees lose the right to have more direct relationships with this type of person.
What are management/higher-ups?
SAG-AFTRA negotiates for best wages, preserves workers’ opportunities, protects members from unauthorized use of their work, and stands for ______
What is the Screen Actors Guild - American Federation of Television and Radio Artists?
These things were happening in the workplace and were the reason for the creation of unions.
What are poor conditions, workplace accidents/injuries/deaths, child labor, exploitation, and terrible wages?
Union workers made this much more than than nonunion counterparts in 2023.
What is 18%?
These may not always align with individual workers’ wishes.
What are union decisions?
This was the first union formed in the US.
What was the Federal Society of Journeymen Cordwainers?