ECON 2T03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Collective Bargaining, Social Policy, Blue-Collar Worker
11 Dec 2017
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Unions: are collective organizations, improve the well-being of its members, this objective is met through collective bargaining and the outcome is an agreement specifying. Unions additional roles: social and political affairs, influence the government in power, provide financial support to the dominant parties. Prior to confederation the law has discouraged collective bargaining. In 1970"s the law was neutral to collective bargaining. In 1944, the law encouraged collective bargaining: the evolution of the unions legal framework in canada, features of canadian labour relations policy: Workers have the right to join and form unions. Collective bargaining rights are protected under unfair labour practices legislation. System that defines bargaining representative of the workers. The rights are enforced by a labour relations board. Incidence of union organization: using demand and supply framework. Demand for union representation depends on the expected benefits and cost of union representation. The supply of union representation depends on the contact administration activities from union leaders and staff.
