General Motors 'Unions'

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General Motors 'Unions'

Introduction

General Motors Company can be identified as one of America's biggest automobile manufacturing companies, which has a vast global market. In America the act of unionization is considered as the basic right of each employee, and the government has made the relevant guidelines for the organizations, to provide and protect this right of the employees. The labor union helps the employees to group together and discusses their relevant concerns. In the group activity, the employees can raise their concerns regarding any decision taken by the management of the company, and in this way they can represent the interests of the employees among the management level decisions. In the perspective of the management, profit maximization is the primary concern, and for this objective they might even overlook the fundamental rights of the employees. Hence the government of the United States of America has ensured that the employees are provided the platform and the legal support to participate in the organizational unions.

General Motors is one of the most iconic American automobile companies, which employs more than 200,000 employees throughout its global network. The management of the company has ensured that the important employee rights are protected, and the laws relating to the labor rights are identified, in the foreign markets. The company has operational existence in more than 157 countries worldwide, and these countries consist of diversified laws relating to the activity of union formation. Even though the company has existence in multiple markets in the global context, the senior management has formulated a very flexible and dynamic organization setup to aid the union formation process. The company has realized that the long term organizational success of the company is based on an ideology of collaboration, where the concerns of each relevant stakeholder have to be ...