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The contract between SSP and Unite Here Local 11, the union that represents airport concessions employees, expired in May. Restaurant workers at Phoenix airport, downtown Sheraton hotel workers strike
If copper increased, employees would receive a raise. It offered new workers $7.00 an hour instead of over $9.00. Instead of offering free doctor visits in the company hospital, they began to require a $5.00 copayment. The union leaders turned that down, but hundreds of workers from Tucson and Phoenix accepted it.
In 24 U.S. states, [24] employees who are working in a unionized shop may be required to contribute towards the cost of representation (such as at disciplinary hearings) if their fellow employees have negotiated a union security clause in their contract with management. Dues are generally 1–2% of pay.
Although the collective agreement itself is not enforceable, many of the terms negotiated will relate to pay, conditions, holidays, pensions and so on. These terms will be incorporated into an employee's contract of employment (whether or not the employee is a union member); and the contract of employment is, of course, enforceable.
Starbucks (SBUX) is facing accusations of union-busting tactics after two employees in Phoenix alleged that they were punished for taking part in pro-union activities.
Just cause has become a common standard in labor arbitration, and is included in labor union contracts as a form of job security. Typically, an employer must prove just cause before an arbitrator in order to sustain an employee's termination, suspension, or other discipline.
While manufacturing and farming steadily declined, state- and local-government employment quadrupled from 4 million workers in 1950 to 12 million in 1976 and 16.6 million in 2009. [18] Adding in the 3.7 million federal civilian employees there were 20 million government employees.
The contract is between an "employee" and an "employer". It has arisen out of the old master-servant law, used before the 20th century. Employment contracts relies on the concept of authority, in which the employee agrees to accept the authority of the employer and in exchange, the employer agrees to pay the employee a stated wage (Simon, 1951).