IRE240H1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: European Union Legislative Procedure, Neoliberalism, Work Council
19 Aug 2020
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Challenges and alternatives: contemporary problems and challenges, the work and labour market experience, employee rights and protections. Employee rights and protections are weak in a number of areas (e. g. minimum wage is so low) Workers have few information-sharing, consultation or co-decision making rights: income inequality and stagnation( ) The greater majority of workers have remained non-union and do not enjoy the rights and protections associated with collective bargaining. Canada"s decentralized bargaining structure may contribute to this problem this structure makes it di cult for unions to take wages out of competition and hence to achieve gains for their members. Union representation often nd themselves treated as the enemy and as such are unable to nd themselves treated as the management, frozen out of decisions that impact their members and frustrated at the bargaining table: shifting sands. Complicating matters have been shifts in workforce composition and in the nature of employment:
