RSM100Y1 Chapter 9: Chapter 9 summary
10 Apr 2011
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Labour union a group of individuals working together to achieve more job security, greater benefits, shared job-related goals, higher pay, shorter working hours, or better working conditions. Labour relations the overall process of dealing with employees who are represented by a union. Collective bargaining the process by which union leaders and managers negotiate specific terms and conditions of employment for workers who are represented by unions. The labour movement was born with the industrial revolution. The canadian labour union was formed in 1873. Trades and labour congress in 1886 unite all labour organizations. canadian federation of labour was formed to promote canadian unions over u. s. unions. Trades and labour congress and canadian congress of labour formed to create the. union membership as a proportion of the non-agricultural workforce (union density) has stagnated, and less than one-third of canadian workers belong to a union.
