RSM100Y1 Chapter Notes - Chapter 9: Canada Labour Code, Canadian Labour Congress, Craft Unionism
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A group of individuals working together to achieve shared job-related goals, such as higher pay, shorter working hours, more job security, greater benefits, or better working conditions. The overall process of dealing with employees who are represented by a union. The process by which union leaders and managers negotiate specific terms and conditions of employment for workers who are represented by union. Labour union was born with the industrial revolution. Unions developed because they forced management to listen to the complaints of all their workers. Two difficulties that unions have faced in recent years: composition of the workface (growing of ethnic minorities and women, anti-unionization activities (employers have become much more aggressive. Unions recognize that its in their best interests and of workers they represent to work with instead of against management. Things like organizational downsizing, low inflation, and the recession are factors that have made it more difficult for unions to bargain for big wage increases.
