Sociology 2169 Lecture 14: January 19th - Chapter 5 - Unions.docx

• School: Western University
• Department: Sociology
• Course: Sociology 2169
• Professor: Erin Demaiter

Document Summary

1003): required employers to recognize unions and gave employees the freedom of association to engage in collective bargaining (a cornerstone of current union employer relations: unions became bureaucratized and their relations with employers became formalized and codified, while collective bargaining has been used to set wage and benefit levels, workers have had little ability to shape the other conditions of their work, although developments in this era placed unions on firmer ground, their security was still in question. Groups hoped to extend their security by requiring all workers in a unionized occupation or setting to join a union: the rand formula (rand ruled that while employees should not be required to join a union, they should be required to pay dues) placed unions on a firmer financial ground and provided them with more security, the decade following world war ii was a good one for workers.