21037 Study Guide - Final Guide: Robbie Farah, Unitarian Party, Collective Bargaining
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A trade union is a continuous association of wage-earners. Purpose maintaining or improving the conditions of their working lives. People join to get a power balance (collective voice) Create a monopoly: uniting individual together to raise wages above rates. Represent collective voice: through negotiation with employers to ensure fair conditions. Individuals communicate concerns in effort to change for better. Political activists: they get involved in rule-making (penalty rates) Are the representatives of the employees in the er. Had enormous impact on the er but are clearly struggling to maintain impact. Say if they aren(cid:495)t there that employment conditions will always be worse for employee as employee doesn(cid:495)t have voice at bargaining table. Have changed over the years in terms of types of unions we now have. Assist in communicating with employers the concerns of employees more occupational focused e. g. nursing or industry. We are increasingly seeing enterprise unions (union for a particular org. )
