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	Labor relations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The field of labor relations looks at the relationship between management and workers, particularly groups of workers represented by a labor union.
		Labor relations is an important factor in analyzing "varieties of capitalism", such as neocorporatism (or corporatism), social democracy, and neoliberalism (or liberalism).
		Labor relations can take place on many levels, such as the "shop-floor", the regional level, and the national level.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Labor_relations (344 words)

	Labor Relations
		The Office of Labor Relations (OLR) was created on September 16, 2002 and is dedicated to providing the highest standard of excellence and cooperation between Employees and Management.
		OLR is committed to improving communications between representatives of labor and management, assisting employees and management with conflict resolution and providing employees and management with the opportunities to learn and explore implement innovative and cooperative joint approaches to organizational effectiveness.
		Labor Relations attended a majority of Budget Advisory Committee meetings and has developed a strong partnership with its members as a method in assisting the City with collective bargaining efforts.
	www.miamibeachfl.gov /newcity/depts/labor_relations/main.asp (854 words)

	Human resources, training, and labor relations managers and specialists
		The director of industrial relations also advises and collaborates with the director of human resources, other managers, and members of their staff, because all aspects of human resources policy—such as wages, benefits, pensions, and work practices—may be involved in drawing up a new or revised union contract.
		Labor relations specialists prepare information for management to use during collective bargaining agreement negotiations, a process that requires the specialist to be familiar with economic and wage data and to have extensive knowledge of labor law and collective bargaining trends.
		Overall employment of human resources, training, and labor relations managers and specialists is expected to grow faster than the average for all occupations through 2014.
	www.bls.gov /oco/ocos021.htm (4211 words)

	Labor - Wex (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The area of labor law is governed by both federal law, state law and judicial decisions.
		In 1935, the National Labor Relations Act (NLRA) was enacted by Congress, under its power to regulate interstate commerce, to govern the employer/employee bargaining and union relationship on a national level.
		The NLRA established the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) (http://www.nlrb.gov/) to hear disputes between employers and employees arising under the act and to determine which labor organization will represent a unit of employees.
	www.law.cornell.edu /topics/labor.html (557 words)

	National Labor Relations Board on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		With the passage in 1947 of the Taft-Hartley Labor Act (also known as the Labor-Management Relations Act), the NLRB was converted into a purely judicial body, with the prosecution of unfair labor practices transferred to a general counsel.
		In 1959 the Taft-Hartley Labor Act was amended by the Landrum-Griffin Act (also known as the Labor-Management Reporting and Disclosure Act), which repealed the requirement that a union must file a non-Communist affidavit and a financial report in order to obtain a hearing before the NLRB.
		Butzel Long Attorney to Be Nominated as Chairman of National Labor Relations Board; President George W. Bush Announces His Intention to Nominate Detroit Area's Robert J. Battista as Chairman of National Labor Relations Board.
	encyclopedia.infonautics.com /html/N/NatlL1abo.asp (804 words)

	Greenwich Town Departments - Labor Relations
		The Town of Greenwich is subject to the State's Municipal Employee Relations Act (MERA), which permits employees to organize for the purpose of bargaining collectively with the employer over terms and conditions of employment.
		The Director of Labor Relations, Al Cava, represents the First Selectman serving as the town's chief negotiator in collective bargaining and in the administration of grievances and grievance arbitration.
		The Director of Labor Relations is also responsible for representing the Town before the State's labor board in prohibited labor practice proceedings.
	www.greenwichct.org /LaborRelations/LaborRelations.asp (386 words)

	Amazon.com: Labor Relations: Books: Arthur A. Sloane,Fred Witney (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Labor Relations brings in, for example, sufficient economic material to allow a fundamental appreciation of the union-management process and stops at that point.
		Its focus is on the negotiation and administration of labor agreements, with emphasis on the more significant bargaining issues as they now appear between the covers of the contracts.
		Labor relations can best be viewed as an interaction between two organizations management and the labor union and the parties to this interaction are always subject to various, often complex, environmental influences.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0132567288?v=glance (1059 words)

	RISLRB - Home Page
		The Rhode Island State Labor Relations Act is found at Title 28, Chapter 7 of the Rhode Island General Laws.
		Neither the Director of the Department of Labor and Training, nor any board or other agency shall in any way review, modify or reverse any decision or finding of the Board, or supervise or control the Board, in its exercise of its powers, or performance of its duties, as defined by law.
		Three (3) members of the Board are appointed to represent labor, three (3) members of the Board are appointed to represent management, including at least one (1) representative of local government, and one (1) member of the Board is appointed as a representative of the public generally.
	www.dlt.state.ri.us /lrb (224 words)

	The Federal Labor Relations Authority
		he FLRA is an independent administrative federal agency that was created by Title VII of the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978 (also known as the Federal Service Labor-Management Relations Statute) (the Statute).
		The Statute allows certain non-postal federal employees to organize, bargain collectively, and to participate through labor organizations of their choice in decisions affecting their working lives.
		The primary statutory responsibilities of the FLRA include: (1) resolving complaints of unfair labor practices,(2) determining the appropriateness of units for labor organization representation, (3) adjudicating exceptions to arbitrator's awards, (4) adjudicating legal issues relating to duty to bargain/negotiability, and (5) resolving impasses during negotiations.
	www.flra.gov (145 words)

	State of Illinois - Illinois Education Labor Relations Board
		The IELRB is the state agency administering the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Act, which establishes the right of educational employees to organize and bargain collectively.
		Therein, the Illinois General Assembly declared the purpose of the IELRA was to promote orderly and constructive relationships between educational employees and their employers, recognizing that harmonious relationships are required between educational employees and their employers.
		If you are a private (nongovernmental) employer or employee with a question concerning wages, child labor laws, your rights to privacy in the workplace, as well as other issues relating to wages and working conditions, please contact the Illinois Department of Labor.
	www.state.il.us /agency/ielrb (675 words)

	Labor Research Portal
		A guide to labor studies programs at colleges and universities.
		Libraries that focus on labor, and full-text print resources.
		The following is a selected list of sites that cover labor news and developments.
	www.iir.berkeley.edu /library/laborportal (167 words)

	National Labor Relations Act (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		It created the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) to enforce this right and prohibited employers from committing unfair labor practices that might discourage organizing or prevent workers from negotiating a union contract.
		They succeeded in 1947 with the passage of the Taft-Hartly Act, which added provisions to the NLRA allowing unions to be prosecuted, enjoined, and sued for a variety of activities, including mass picketing and secondary boycotts.
		Employees shall have the right to self-organization, to form, join, or assist labor organizations, to bargain collectively through representatives of their own choosing, and to engage in other concerted activities for the purpose of collective bargaining or other mutual aid and protection.
	home.earthlink.net /~local1613/nlra.html (526 words)

	state of illinois - section
		The Illinois Labor Relations Board is the State agency which administers the Illinois Public Labor Relations Act, the primary law governing relations between unions and public employers.
		If you are an educational employer or employee, the Illinois Educational Labor Relations Board may be able to assist you.
		If you are a private (non-governmental) employer or employee with a union-related question or problem, the National Labor Relations Board may be able to assist you.
	www2.state.il.us /ilrb/index.asp (929 words)

	National Labor Relations Act
		It established a three man National Labor Relations Board empowered to administer the regulation of labour relations in industries engaged in or affecting interstate commerce.
		The National Labor Relations Act also established the rights of workers to join trade unions and to bargain collectively with their employers through representatives of their own choosing.
		Under the bill a new labor board would be set up, fully equipped with staff to investigate and powers to enforce the provisions of the act.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USARnlra.htm (771 words)

	Browse Topic:Labor-Management Relations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		BLS is the principal fact-finding agency for the Federal Government in the broad field of labor economics and statistics.
		It has a dual role as the statistical arm of the Department of Labor and as an independent national statistical agency that collects, processes, analyzes, and disseminates sensitive economic and statistical data.
		DLMR is a Bureau of Labor Statistics program which collects, maintains and produces a variety of information relating to labor management relations and collective bargaining.
	www.library.okstate.edu /govdocs/browsetopics/laborman.html (512 words)

	Labor and Employment Relations Association
		The conference will feature some 60 workshops and plenary sessions covering a wide range of issues dealing with all aspects of labor-management cooperation, health care cost containment, work system design and change as well as a number of hot topics in collective bargaining and arbitration.
		A network of tri-partite industry councils has been formed and meetings were held in Boston for aerospace, airlines, automotive, construction, health care, public sector, and utilities.
		» New LERA Research Volume The Ethics of Human Resources and Industrial Relations, edited by John W. Budd and James G. Scoville, explores the application of ethics to the employee relationship and emphasizes the importance of treating employees properly.
	www.lera.uiuc.edu (675 words)

	Amazon.com: Labor Relations: Books: John A Fossum (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Labor Relations: Development, Structure, Processes discusses the history and development of labor relations, the structure of union organizations, union organizing and union avoidance, bargaining issues, and the process of negotiations and contract administration.
		He is an established author in the labor relations/personnel area.
		He is currently a full professor and the director of the Industrial Relations Center at the University of Minnesota.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0072987138?v=glance (528 words)

	At Your Service > Labor Relations News and Information (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		University employees with questions may contact their local Labor Relations/Human Resources office or the Systemwide Labor Relations office at labor.relations@ucop.edu.
		News and Information about Labor Relations at UC The University of California takes pride in its ongoing commitment to employees and to working effectively with its labor unions.
		The University is proud of its many accomplishments in this area, and in its ability to continually provide some of the most attractive employment rewards and opportunities available to the more than 160,000 faculty and staff that make UC their employer of choice.
	atyourservice.ucop.edu /employees/policies/labor_relations (651 words)

	Welcome to NPELRA: The National Public Employer Relations Association
		U.S. Secretary of Labor Elaine L. Chao outlined the President's Fiscal Year (FY) 2007 Labor Department budget, which provides added resources for enforcement and compliance assistance to protect workers' health, safety, pay and benefits; and for updating key economic data.
		NPELRA is a nationwide organization dedicated to developing the profession of labor relations and to enable practitioner to represent public employers in providing the highest standards of excellence, through training, networking and legislative advocacy.
		While many members of the Business Affairs and Labor Committee agreed something must be done, they didn't see Stengel's bill as the answer.
	www.npelra.org (1565 words)

	BPubs.com: Labor Relations Articles
		A Manual for Area & Industry Labor-Management Committees - Area Labor-Management Committees (ALMCs) are wonderful organizations through which labor and management activists in a community or region discover issues and develop themes which they can work on jointly.
		A Start-Up Guide for Worksite Labor-Management Committees - Describes a process which labor and management officials may use to develop labor and management committees.
		After September 11: Employment Law Issues - The events of September 11, 2001 have brought up many questions for employers and employees.
	www.bpubs.com /Human_Resources/Labor_Relations (337 words)

	Jackson Lewis Labor Relations
		Committed to the practice of preventive labor relations through issue assessment, supervisory training, policy development, and positive communications, Jackson Lewis has assisted many employers in winning NLRB elections or in avoiding union elections altogether.
		Our attorneys have handled thousands of matters before the National Labor Relations Board, state labor boards, and state and federal courts and have preserved management rights in contract negotiations, contract administration, grievance and arbitration proceedings, and work stoppages.
		Labor Day Observance Is Marked by Dramatic Changes in Future Direction of Organizing Efforts
	www.jacksonlewis.com /pa/pa.cfm?paid=12 (403 words)

	Employment Law and Labor Relations Law (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Employment law is a broad area including all areas of the employer/employee relationship except the negotiation process covered by labor law and collective bargaining.
		Labor Law labor law Collective Bargaining and Arbitration
		Please see human rights and immigration as they relate to employment.
	www.hg.org /employ.html (252 words)

	School of Industrial and Labor Relations
		Given the globalization of firms, finance, and labor markets, the labor movement recognizes that union organizing and bargaining campaigns and strategic research must become global as well.
		It is to address these challenges that more than 560 trade unionists and scholars from 53 countries came together in an historic gathering at the Crown Plaza Hotel in New York City on February 9-11, 2006.
		Copies of the print are available for sale for $10 plus shipping.
	www.ilr.cornell.edu /globalunionsconference (566 words)

	Indiana University of Pennsylvania - Industrial and Labor Relations (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		S.H.R.M. Pennsylvania Center for the Study of Labor Relations
		The Graduate Department of Industrial and Labor Relations offers a graduate degree program within the College of Health and Human Services as well as several undergraduate service courses open to students of any major or college.
		The M.A. in ILR is a multidisciplinary program designed to prepare professionals in the field of Employment Relations in public and private management, unions, government agencies, and neutral and service organizations.
	www.hhs.iup.edu /ilr (167 words)

	MLRB Homepage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Welcome to the homepage of the Maine Labor Relations Board and its affiliated organizations, the Panel of Mediators and the Board of Arbitration and Conciliation.
		The Maine Labor Relations Board administers and enforces the state's laws that govern collective bargaining for public sector employees and employers.
		Agricultural Employees Labor Relations Act, Title 26 MRSA chapter 16
	janus.state.me.us /mlrb/homemlrb.htm (313 words)

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