how binding are contracts between employers and employees?

Question

What is the point of entering into a contract with a company when down the road they can just go to court and get it nullified? I don't understand how it's legal for a company to void a contract and then have the courts declare that a strike would be illegal. This especially bothers me when it effects the retirement pay and benefits of retirees. When I read reports about how unmotivated American workers are, I can't help but think a lot of that has to do with the fact that big business writes it's own rules, and workers are discouraged from giving all to a work force that uses and then discards them with the blessing of this goverment.

Answer 1

They're binding but when there is a disagreement, usually there is an arbitration process. It won't always go the way of the union- sorry. If somebody strikes and disrupts the nation, we can't have that.

Answer 2

all union negotiated contracts are based on coercion. you pay us what we want or we strike causing the company to lose money. unions are nothing but organized blackmail. when unions were first organized they had a purpose of safe working conditions and a reasonable wage. today osha takes care of the safety and the government sets minimum wage. i bought my first lincoln town car about 20 yrs ago for a little over $15K. today that same care cost over $45K. why? unions. nothing else has inflated that much and if it has there is a union behind it somewhere. unions mess up the economic laws of supply and demand. if there are more workers than jobs wages should go down and when there is more jobs than workers wages should go up. but with unions wages go up no matter. when a company can make a better car overseas, ship it over hear and sell it for half the price i have no sympathy for auto workers in detroit losing their jobs. the nations largest nonunionized factory is in cadillac, mi. they have been manufacturing the same products since 1939. they have never had a strike, layoff, cutback or a year when company profits did increase. that company's product over the same 20 yr period only doubled. it use to be that if you did not get a high school diploma or a tech skill you had to go to work in a factory. that or another manual labor job. the situation is only agravated by illegal aliens that work for less. if illegals did not take the jobs employers would be forced to raise the wages so that US citizens would do the work. a free market place keeps everything balanced. unions upset that balance.

Answer 3

This is probably not an obscure reason. If you read the offer, I bet that it says that the company will not be responsible for getting you a work permit/authorization etc. With the end of your husband's employment, you have no legal reason to be in the country and so the job offer is canceled. Even if it does not say this, what do you think that you can do about it? What country's laws govern the agreement? Where can you go for redress?