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A system designed is presented to increase warehouse productivity. The system must be based on the management issues to be resolved and the labor techniques to accomplish these issues. Management must approach systems application, scheduling, quality control, and maintenance of standards.

The Treasury Department's Division of Check Claims has instituted an automated financial accounting and reporting system for handling reports due to labor management disputes. Long range planning was necessary to institute the successful program that exists today. The benefits of the automated system are presented.

Changes in labor relations in the airlines industry have resulted in cooperation and increased productivity. Management techniques are usually the cause of labor/ management problems. The airline industry workers want their contract to work, but unions are wondering how long it will last.

Transportation and distribution managers can use antitrust laws to challenge labor activities, and labor and management agreements. Court interpretations of antitrust laws applied to labor unions can be difficult, since the union's objective is to eliminate wage competition. There are chances of conspiracy allegations from union and motor carrier wages arrangements.

A restructuring of labor-management relationships is examined. Unions are becoming more involved in management problems and are helping to find solutions. Union leaders from the United Auto Workers (UAW), United Steelworkers of America (USWA) and the United Mine Workers think management should be using its manpower more efficiently. Unions are pressing for participative management and job security. Unions are losing memberships due to shrinking incomes and layoffs and as a result are examining their internal structure.

With the increase of women in the work force, unions are looking to organize them. Companies need to audit their procedures and policies or unions will move in. Companies can make unions unnecessary by creating an ideal work environment and implementing a positive employee relations program. Companies that want to maintain a union free policy must instruct their managers and supervisors in the laws pertaining to labor and equal employment opportunity.