Unionization In The Workplace Essay

“Hi, what can I get for you today?” is the typical question people get when they enter a fast food restaurant. The worker then takes the order, delivers the meal, and then the customer leaves. A simple process of getting and receiving food, yet what people don’t know is what really happens behind the counter. In 2007, it was found that bullying in the workplace was four times more current than illegal harassment. Through the process of unionization, requiring managerial workers to obtain moralistic business and leadership skills beforehand for the development of humanization, and acquiring socialization by enabling employees and employers to understand the expectations of the industry before being hired, the unethical treatment of workers will be prevented to

For example, there are many fast food employees of McDonalds are joining together through unionization to seek fifteen dollar wages. (Davidson) Although there may be well-supported proof of why the employees are joining together as a union, it should not take thousands of employees to strike to get their industry to notice their problems. When the main fast food industries do notice their employees unionizing together, they try to cover up and stop the protests in an unethical way. In the early 1970s, McDonalds workers in Lansing, Michigan started to create a union. The industry finding out about the union resulted to the restaurant being close and all crew members were fired. A new McDonalds was then opened a few blocks down and all crew members that signed union cards weren’t hired. (Schlosser 77) Fast food industries are ignoring and covering up the problems of their employees which is a result of work abuse. The managerial industrial workers and employees should be able to come together through unionization to address the problems and wishes of what employees are speaking about. In the late 1960s and early 1970s, McDonald’s workers were creating unions across the