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Questions: 1. What does unionization look like in health care? 2. What are the positive aspects of employee relations in a union versus a non-union? 3. What are benefits and drawbacks of having a union? 4. What is the future of unions in health care? 5. What is the role of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB)? Answers: 1. The unionization is a new concept for healthcare sector where it is focussed to eliminate favouritism and discrimination from the working of the healthcare sector. The unionization in healthcare sector provides a picture of respect and dignity established between the administration, workforce and customers in hospitals. Unionization promotes welfare for both the service providers and service users in the healthcare sector (Kim et al. 2012). 2. Employee relation in a union allows health and safe working environment. Employee considers unionization as their right to put forward their views and needs directly in front of administration that leads to enhancing healthcare facilities and overcome on-going issues. Employee relation in union provides collaborative working which fails to establish in non-union working scenario (NLRB, 2016). 3. Benefits Provides right to accept or reject work Provides dignity and value to labour working in healthcare working Provides power and security to workforce Promotes welfare Help in getting better income, pension benefits and rewards Provides an opportunity to lower cadre workers to get involves in organization decision-making process (NLRB, 2016). Drawbacks Unionization complexs the healthcare working system Creates unpredictable situation in emergencies Fails to address critical nursing issues Fails to provide nursing concerns (Kim et al. 2012). 4. As this is a new approach in health care sector, unionization provides a promising establishment in the future working of health care sector due to exceptional benefits (Kim et al. 2012). 5. The NLRB is the organization in the USA that works to provide the rights and obligations for employees involved in Unionization. The National Labor Relations Act governs all the activities involved in unionization of employees. Some of the key roles are helping labour for good faith bargaining, develop rules for unions, provide the right to work with dignity, freedom to reject unionization, obligate unions and support unions to develop effective working in the healthcare sector (NLRB, 2016) References Journals Kim, I. H., Muntaner, C., Shahidi, F. V., Vives, A., Vanroelen, C., Benach, J. (2012). Welfare states, flexible employment, and health: a critical review.Health policy,104(2), 99-127. Websites NLRB (2016). Retrieved 29 June 2016, from https://www.nlrb.gov/rights-we-protect/whats-law/unions