LABRST 2A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Direct Democracy, Workplace Democracy, Starbucks

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Labour Studies
• Course: LABRST 2A03
• Professor: David Goutor

Document Summary

Resources have a big issue resource industries like lumber and timber have an issue with this model. Was mostly in the power of white males. If you were in a union that was using a wagner model. Especially if you were a immigrant in an union. A set of universal rules within the workplace -- some unions did bargain racial issues. Established a set of rules that cover everyone. Especially a day-to-day rules that make it so there cannot be a different set of rules for minority. 90%+ of minorities supported the union because of this. By the 50"s the number of job descriptions went from 30 thousand to about. Reducing the overall scope of the organization to discriminate workers. The public sector for the most part the wagner model has been able to adapt. Labour law in canada was modernized to adapt to the wagner model. Wagner model - they complain that the service sector has been neglected.