Labor Relations: Work Hard for the Money Today, the U.S. National Labor Relations Board, an independent federal agency, is tasked with the enforcement of laws controlling the relationship between private sector employers and unions. To determine the function of the NLRB and how it accomplishes this responsibility, this paper explores the NLRB Web site to evaluate the role of the agency with respect to labor disputes, commerce, employees, employers and labor organizations. Finally, an explanation concerning how the agency can provide the information and tools needed to resolve labor disputes is followed by a summary of the research and important findings concerning the NLRB in the conclusion.

Review and Analysis

Evaluation of the role of the NLRB as it pertains to labor disputes, commerce, employees, employers, and labor organizations

The National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) was created by the U.S. Congress in 1935 in response to growing civil unrest concerning organized employment issues (Amodeo, 2014). Since that time, the NLRB has sought to promote and protect employee and employer rights with respect to collective bargaining and have routinely negotiated the terms of employment conditions through designated representatives from labor and management (Amodeo, 2014). The NLRB pursues labor dispute resolution pursuant to section...

According to Amodeo, "The [NLRA] divides ULPs into several categories: illegal employer actions, illegal union actions, protections of political viewpoints, the obligation to honor collective bargaining efforts, contract enforceability, and the right to strike" (p. 790). The goal of these efforts is to resolve labor disputes as quickly and as fairly as possible for all stakeholders involved in order to restore organizational economic productivity (Amodeo, 2014).
Likewise, Section 301 of the Labor Management Relations Act (LMRA) assigns broad-based jurisdiction to federal courts concerning the resolution of labor disputes in an effort to promote compliance with these labor agreements; however, such labor disputes become the jurisdiction of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) is they are representational (Labor law, 2011). The NLRB's Web site states that, "The National Labor Relations Board is an independent federal agency that protects the rights of private sector employees to join together, with or without a union, to improve their wages and working conditions" (Who we are, 2016, para. 1). An organization chart of the NLRB is provided at Appendix A.

To its credit,…