SOSC 1510 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Goraya, Industrial Democracy, Collective Bargaining
2 Apr 2017
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An organized group of workers who collectively use their strength to have a voice in their workplace. Workers have a right to impact wages, work hours, benefits, workplace health and safety, job training, increase industrial democracy, promoting equality between men and women; younger and older workers; and between minorities, along with other work-related issues. Organization that defines, promotes, and fights for the rights of workers and their collective interests. There is a strength in numbers as collectively we are stronger= power. We can negotiate our terms of employment which include wages, hours, benefits, working conditions. We can also deal with unfair treatment which includes discrimination, being fired, being intimidated, etc. Union membership trends union growth in canada has steadily increased from 1911 to 2012, from 133,000 members to 4. 66 million respectively. Collective bargaining coverage is an indicator of the extent to which the terms of workers" employment are influenced by collective negotiation.
