ADM 3334 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Business Unionism, Winnipeg General Strike, Social Contract
24 Oct 2017
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Union density is down because there is less manufacturing in canada now. In the labor force survey # of variables can provide stats on. Questions asked: are you a union member? (they have a signed union card) may have under or over reporting because some people may not have signed the union card, are you collected by a collective agreement. Status: full- vs. part- time ( there is much more fulltime union members than part-ti(cid:373)e, they do(cid:374)"t see the(cid:373)sel(cid:448)es as (cid:271)ei(cid:374)g there for long) Female membership (more prevalent in women because they typically work in public sector) Age (older age groups are more unionized than younger) Education (all over the map, not a predictor of union membership) Craft unions (skilled trades, came from the us and uk because they were bigger volumes of pop. Industrial unions (non-skilled workers, they work in factories, broader, they had lower wages than craft unions and there was a rivalry)
