Summary Union Workers Versus Human Resources.docx SOC 402 Union Workers Versus Human Resources University of Arizona Global Campus SOC 402 Contemporary Social Problems & the Workplace Union Workers Versus Human Resources Unions have been around since 1935 w

Union Workers Versus Human R SOC 402 Union Workers Versus Human Resources University of Arizona Global Campus SOC 402 Contemporary Social Problems & the Workplace Union Workers Versus Human Resources Unions have been around since 1935 when the National Labor Relations Act was passed. It is the role of the union to safeguard employees' rights, ensure safe work conditions and negotiate for the employees through collective bargaining. Since the beginning of offshoring and outsourcing of manufacture goods from the United States and Europe, €œlabor organizations have attempted to hold multinational corporations responsible for working conditions in global value chains. They have done so by exposing substandard working conditions in terms of, for example, verbal and physical abuse, dangerous working conditions, and subminimum wages, and the suppression of labor unions in the global apparel, footwear, and electronics