COMMERCE 1E03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Canadian Union Of Public Employees, Unemployment Benefits, W. M. Keck Observatory
19 May 2016
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Management"s responsibility to produce a profit by maximizing productivity sometimes necessitates hard decisions. Employee-management issues must be worked out through open discussion, good will and compromise. A good starting point in discussing employee-management relations in. Union: an employee organization that has the main goal of representing members in employee-management bargaining over job-related issues; also known as labor union. Originally formed to protect themselves against intolerable work conditions and unfair treatment. Craft unions: an organization of skilled specialists in a particular craft or trade. Formed to address fundamental work issues of pay, hours, conditions, and job security. Hoped to protect their craft and status from being undermined. Before 1872 it was illegal to form a union in the workplace. Industrial unions: consists of unskilled and semi-skilled workers in mass production industries such as automobile manufacturing and mining. Structure and size of labor unions in canada.
