LABR 1F90 Lecture Notes - Lecture 15: Michael Parenti, Industrial Unionism, Seasonal Agricultural Workers Program
5 Feb 2016
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26 january 2016 labr 1f90 sec 1. The union advantage clearly provides unionized workers with better wages and greater benefit entitlements than their nonunion counterparts. Public opinion polls tell us that many workers, if given the choice, would opt to work in a unionized workplace. In canada, union density, has been hovering around 30 percent since the early 2000s, down from its high point in the mid-to- high 30s in the late 1980s. But the relative stability of union density masks important internal demographic shifts in the union movement. Workers in large workplaces (500+ employees) are far more likely to be unionized than workers in small workplaces (55. 2% vs. The costs to unions in terms of money and staff time involved in organizing small workplaces is much higher per potential member than in large workplaces. Small employers are also more likely to detect unionization drives in the early stages and to try to thwart them.
