LABRST 1C03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Universal Suffrage, Workplace Democracy
21 Mar 2018
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Formed when workers, from the same organization, come together and want to bargain with employer to improve work conditions. Based on shared values of equality, mutual aid and solidarity, where acting together is instrumentally and normatively good. Power imbalance that workers experience concerning respect. To replace individual bargaining with collective bargaining. Union advantage where unions increase wages, bene ts and other entitlements by taking wages and working conditions out of competition. Workplace democracy where unions ensure workers" voice and interests are taken seriously in workplace decisions. Replacing arbitrary/ unilateral management decisions with due processes and rule of law": collective agreements and grievances procedures. An organization whose members share political beliefs and objectives and attempts to gain political power/ voice in the government by running candidates for election, mobilizing party members and voters, or pressuring the government by protest. Why workers create political parties and engage in politics action. To create political organizations independent of their employers.
