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1. Explain the role of unions in today's workplace and provide examples of two transportation unions.

2. What is the NLRB and what does it do?

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1. Explain the role of unions in today's workplace and provide examples of two transportation unions.

2. What is the NLRB and what does it do?

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Labor Unions

1. Explain the role of unions in today's workplace and provide examples of two transportation unions.

Originally, trade or labor unions were formed to demand that workers have better working conditions. They were formed to allow collective bargaining with their employers to get better working conditions, wages, and benefits. The theory behind a "union" was bringing employees together to have strength in numbers. Most management people at companies do not want to go up against ...

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