The United Auto Workers is a union formed for workers in the automobile industry, as the name implies. However, the UAW has expanded its influence and is now helping workers in many different industries to unionize. The website has two main focuses, organizing workers to form new unions and helping workers who are already members to find ways to be active in promoting workers rights. Activism is the larger section of the two focuses. Currently the UAW is working to promote the Occupy Wall Street movement, extending unemployment benefits, and the federal budget. The UAW website is aimed mostly at current union members, and at other workers who might be wishing to unionize. Unions have been a critical part of the labor movement in the past that curbed many industry abuses. In modern days unions have become more controversial, but for many workers in low skill jobs, collective bargaining can be one of their most effective tools for gaining more benefits like sick time and paid leave. I believe that unions like the UAW are the other hope for better work environments, in comparison to my other site about Results Only Work Environments. ROWE represents the best hope I have, where management trusts its workers. But ROWE requires a lot of trust from management, and if management does not trust its workers, then collective action may be the best course for workers to gain the rights they need to take care of their work and their families.

Results Only Work Environment is about changing how companies view employee time and results. The idea of a results only work environment or "ROWE" is that an employee's time is not tracked at all, only their results. This means that employees can have as much time off as they want, when they want as long as their jobs get done. The website has four main areas, ROWE results, how to move your company to a ROWE, news related to ROWE and normal work environments, and how they can help your company move to a ROWE. The website is aimed both at company leaders and employees. While the site is very informative about ROWE, it is also trying to sell their services. The Results Only Work Environment is my ideal form of work environment, and I believe such an environment could solve a lot of work-life balance issues for many people. The greatest part about such an environment is that employees no longer would be pressured to be away from their family to show their dedication, but only for things that actually matter to their work. One thing about the website does reflect poorly on its credibility. The website belongs to CultureRx a wholy owned subsidiary of Best Buy, but I could not find that information on their website. (http://www.workforce.com/article/20070323/NEWS02/303239971) However, while the website is not clear about this relationship with Best Buy, the relationship with Best Buy actually should give them more credibility. Cali Ressler and Jody Thompson were HR executives at Best Buy when they pionereed the ROWE concept, and Best Buy is one of the first and largest companies in the nation with a ROWE. Furthermore, the program has been a huge success for Best Buy.

According to the articles I read, Best Buy is trying to implement this in their stores, but there are a lot of issues with things like labor laws and hours tracking. A lot of the laws are state laws so they may have implemented this in some states by now, but I am not sure if any stores have gone ROWE yet.