SOSC 3380 Lecture 6: The Emergence of New Regime - Industrial Pluralism
30 Nov 2016
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Reconversion strategy recognize and bargain with trade unions. Q: reconversion to : a centrepiece of the strategy is a collective bargaining scheme that requires employers to, industrial peace, acknowledging the union, by recognizing the union it might help to restore some of the themes. National liberal federation : labour is not a commodity but a partner in industry and a principle mainstay of national life". Postwar role of labour includes representatives of labour on wartime boards and other agencies of government. Symbol of new respect towards union recognition and collective bargaining. Marked the transition in federal labour policy from industrial voluntarism to industrial pluralism: voluntary - government would only intervene if both sides agreed, pluralism - more than one system working at the same time. Federal government compelled employers to recognize and bargain with trade unions. Ensured that employers could not exploit the reconversion to peace to crush trade unions.
