Labor Relations Question and answers
Shift toward knowledge work - ✅✅The modern labor environment has moved from manufacturing to
knowledge work, service industries, and gig economy.
Union density trend - ✅✅Traditional union membership is declining.
Management strategies today - ✅✅Focus on flexibility, cost control, and maintaining authority.
Union strategies today - ✅✅Focus on maintaining relevance, influence, and employee voice.
Three competing interests in labor relations - ✅✅Efficiency, equity, and employee voice.
Bargaining leverage - ✅✅Power balance shaped by economic conditions, strikes, and employer
responses.
Knights of Labor - ✅✅Promoted broad unionism for all workers; not just skilled trades.
AFL unionism - ✅✅Focused on craft unionism (skilled trades).
CIO unionism - ✅✅Focused on industrial unionism (all workers in an industry).
AFL-CIO merger significance - ✅✅Unified labor movement and strengthened union influence.
Historic barriers to union growth - ✅✅Laws, employer resistance, economic challenges.