ECON-3046EL Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Tax Rate, Life Insurance, Blue-Collar Worker
28 Feb 2017
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Unions are collective organizations whose primary objective is to improve the wellbeing of their members, in canada this objective is met primarily through collective bargaining with the employer. The law provides workers with the right to form and join unions. In canada, the gap between union membership and collective agreements overage is relatively small. The demand for union representation emanates from employees and depends on the expected benefits an costs union representation. The supply of union representation emanates from the organizing and contract administration activities of union leaders and their staff. Employers actions may influence either the demand or supply of union representation by altering the costs and benefits to employees and union leaders and organizes. Both social attitudes toward unions and the legislative framework governing collective bargaining, which in turn may reflect society"s views of unions, appear to influence union growth and decline. The divergence of unionization between canada and the united states.
