Foundations of Business: Labor Unions

Play Theories of Motivation Kahoot.

Watch video on unions.

Unions are groups of workers who have banded together to have better negotiation power, higher wages, better working conditions, better benefits.

Watch video on union strikes.

Read Chapter 7.6.

Discuss: You’ve just gotten a job as an autoworker. Would you prefer to work in a unionized or nonunionized plant? Why? If you were hired as a high-level manager in the company, would you want your workers to be unionized? Why, or why not? What’s your opinion on the future of organized labor? Will union membership grow or decline in the next decade? Why, or why not?

Play Labor Union Quiz Kahoot.

Learning Target:

  • I can explain why workers unionize and how unions are structured and describe the collective-bargaining process.

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