21037 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Beatrice Webb, Common Rule, Collective Bargaining
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= to get a power balance (collective voice) Employees typically have been members of trade unions to help them in their er. Critics of unionism say that it should be left to the market forces to determine what the workplace conditions are rather than collective action by the employers through the trade unions. Definition: - courtesy of sydney and beatrice webb (1919): maintaining or improving the conditions of their working lives". Purpose is in the definition but why do people/workers feel the need to join a (cid:494)a trade union is a continuous association of wage-earners for the purpose of (cid:494)continuous association(cid:495). Issues of power and control remember back to control strategies of last week how can workers resist such control strategies how effective is such resistance. What do unions do? individuals together: represent the collective voice of employees: through negotiation to ensure employee get fair and reasonable conditions (give the voice)
