Analysis of the case study of North American Tire Plant 2022

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Analysis of the case study of North American Tire Plant
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ANALYSIS OF THE CASE STUDY OF NORTH AMERICAN TIRE PLANT
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Introduction
The North American Tire Plant in Bailey, Gorgia got its labour union and its labour
management on a negotiating table over the basic problems of the economic recession and the
wage policies. The employees were on a strike since the company’s initial proposals did not
satisfy the union’s demands.
Ethical aspects of both union and management behaviour.
In order to take care of the contemporary business, there needs to be proper
cooperative and enlightened modes of interactions between the labour management and the
union. Several factors like personal moral philosophy, motivation and moral development of
an individual influence the proper ethical decision making. The labour unions are the
employee organized associations whose responsibility is to safeguard the rights of the
employees and their further interests. Among the ethical issues, problems such as bargaining
power of the wages, the wage policies, the union security clauses and the management rights
might raise ethical questions in the labour-management behaviour (Maroušek et.al., 2016).
The management may tend to threaten the workers, to close down the workplace,
might behave as if they resemble the unions but not allow the workers to work democratically
might be considered as the ethical aspects of the management. Also in many cases, the
management decides to formally create the unions but there is sheer absence of freedom of
association in the workplace. Unions often tend to employ considerable power by taxation to
the employees in order to influence the politicians. They also seek help from the government
to raise taxes to increase benefits for their members (Pearson Seyfang & Jenkins, 2013).
The labour unions tried to remove favouritism from the workplace environment,
which the management tried to bring back, by the productivity of the non-union plants. The
union provided the opportunity for the wage workers to go through the due process amidst