MGM102H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 15: Child Care, Secret Ballot, Ivan Rand
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Chapter 15: dealing with employee-management issues and relations. Employee-management issues: labour union: employee organization whose main goal is representing members in employee-management negotiations of job-related issues. Private-sector labour unions include those who work as employees of a private firm or business: unionized public sector employees work in: Public administration at federal, provincial, territorial, municipal, first nations and other aboriginal levels. Crown corporations, liquor control boards, and other government institutions: relationship between management and employees is not always smooth. Ma(cid:374)age(cid:373)e(cid:374)t"s respo(cid:374)si(cid:271)ilit(cid:455) to produ(cid:272)t profit (cid:271)(cid:455) (cid:373)a(cid:454)i(cid:373)izi(cid:374)g produ(cid:272)ti(cid:448)it(cid:455) necessitates hard decisions. Number of private-sector union members grew and workers gained more negotiating and political power. Strength of economic and political among private workers waned memberships declined. Reasons for decline: increased global competition, shifts from manufacturing to service and high-tech industries are less heavily unionized, growth in part-time work, etc. The early history of organized labour: some unions existed to profit from labour scarcity, others were craft unions.
