HRM 1101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, Armonk, New York, Union Dues
2 May 2018
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The Changing Workplace
• Unions Sprang from Workplace Abuses
• Child labor
• Dangerous working conditions
o Triangle Shirtwaist Fire
o Ludlow Mine Massacre
o Brooklyn Bridge
• Employer abuse
• Low wages
• 84-hour work weeks; no weekends, no vacations, no sick leave
• No benefits
Unions – a Snapshot
• Unions began in the U.S. in the 1880s – most powerful time was in the 1950s
• Peak: 1954 – 35% of U.S. workforce belonged to a union = 21 million workers
• Today:
o Total # of unionized workers = 11.1% (although recent op ed stated 10%)
o Puli setor Go’t = 35.7% of orkers elog to a uio
o Private sector = 6.6% of workers belong to a union
Union Cons
• Union dues can be expensive
• Public employee unions – so costly, they are bankrupting municipalities
• Union wages can drive up the cost of goods and make companies and industries less
competitive
• Loss of autonomy for workers and employers
• High-performance workers can become frustrated
• Employers cannot get rid of dead wood
• Less collaborative work environment
• Seniority:
o Philadelphia newspapers:
▪ Older workers with fewer technology skills keep their jobs
▪ Younger workers with fabulous technology skills are laid off
IBM
• Headquartered in Armonk, New York
• Ko as Big Blue
• Multinational computer technology and IT consulting company
• Lines of Business:
o Manufactures hardware, software
o Infrastructure services
o Hosting services
o Consulting services ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology
• More than 400,000 employees worldwide
• 12 research labs worldwide
• Has more patents than any other U.S. based technology company
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Document Summary
The changing workplace: unions sprang from workplace abuses, child labor, dangerous working conditions, triangle shirtwaist fire, ludlow mine massacre, brooklyn bridge, employer abuse, low wages, 84-hour work weeks; no weekends, no vacations, no sick leave, no benefits. Ibm: headquartered in armonk, new york, k(cid:374)o(cid:449)(cid:374) as (cid:862)big blue(cid:863, multinational computer technology and it consulting company, lines of business, manufactures hardware, software. Infrastructure services: hosting services, consulting services ranging from mainframe computers to nanotechnology, more than 400,000 employees worldwide, 12 research labs worldwide, has more patents than any other u. s. based technology company. Ibm employees have won five nobel prizes, four turing awards, five national medals of. Technology, and five national medals of science: one of the largest, most respected, most admired companies in the u. s. and the world. Machines: retired in 1956, thomas j. watson jr. became president in 1952 led ibm through 1971, lou gerstner former mckinsey consultant led the reinvention of ibm in the.
