LABRST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Rand Formula, United Automobile Workers, Public Culture

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Labour Studies
• Course: LABRST 1A03
• Professor: David Goutor

Document Summary

Outside of that they do not have as wide a range of activity as they used to. Unions have the money to hire bureaucrats. When union bureaucrats won grievances, the unions did not complain. World of the union and people working within union become more separated from the average worker. Workers not always told about rules in collective agreements or what the grievances are about. Unions always tried to control the workplace. Wanted to have some say over what is happening in the workplace. Wagner model set in: unions less focused on winning control, more focused on winning grievances, not disrupting production. Managements rights clause: anything not explicitly covered in the collective agreement, management has the rule and can do whatever it wants. If not in agreement, management decides what happens: if new technology comes into workplace: workers cannot really anticipate this so will not be in agreement.