In Mounted Police, the Court leaves the door open for laws that effectively deny workers the right to choose their
bargaining agent. Of a designated bargaining-agent model (where the government legislates which union certain employees are represented by), the decision holds:
The court ruled that the Railroad Labor Act imposed a "duty of fair representation on exclusive
bargaining agents. The railroad brotherhoods had to protect the interests of members of their craft, white or black, member or not.
Why did both political parties enact labor legislation that failed to make bona fide unions the exclusive
bargaining agents of workers?
Vulnerable people need
bargaining agents to act for them.
. At a meeting between management and
bargaining agents for the workers, the Civil Service Association (CSA) demanded that workers be awarded their severance pay in full before any of the workers are sent home.
In total the CIR rejected nine organizations because they did not have the resources or organizational support to be considered as viable
bargaining agents. For example, in Coventry Economic Building Society (CIR, 1973a), where senior management had played an active part in the formation of the staff association; four out of five committee members were head office managers; there were no paid officials of the association and it was dependent on interest-free loans made to it by senior managers.
The workers elect their representatives who act as collective
bargaining agents for a period of two years.
They openly protest they are there only "to help bring civilization to these people." In fact, such helpers serve essentially as translators, facilitators,
bargaining agents on behalf of big business and governments - all in the name, of course, of "culture," or "civilization," or, God help us, Jesus Christ himself Annie and Kai get swept into the role of observers, but on the side of the marginalized.
Medical plans serve, effectively, as the
bargaining agents for large groups of consumers; they use the clout of their consumer base to drive down health care service fees ....
She said if this convention was ratified the labourers belonging to home-based sector would get their due identity and like other workers would get facilities under labour laws including forming their unions, collective
bargaining agents, protection against workplace discrimination, workplace safety and healthcare facilities, better wages, social security, old age benefit, pension, training opportunities, maternity facilities, better working hours and working conditions, minimum labour age and other perks.
