2024-2025 Academic Catalog

Sep 30, 2024

2024-2025 Academic Catalog

HRD 1510 - Labor Relations In Workplace

The relationship between organizations and workers is a story of ideals, structure, exploitation, endurance, and the law. In addition to general survey, this course reveals labor relations by focusing on key historical cases of the American labor movement, illustrating the need, emergence, height, and decline of unions. The course also examines current tensions and legal frameworks, including union organizing, unfair labor practices, collective bargaining, and public versus private employee options. Finally, we consider what labor relations may look like in the future.

Anticipated Terms Offered: rarely