HRM 3422 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: International Labour Organization, Industrial Unionism, Bargaining Unit

• School: York University
• Department: Human Resources Management
• Course: HRM 3422
• Professor: Indira Somwaru

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Economics: believed they would improve efficiency and equity of markets by providing more balance of bargaining power. Wealth redistribution could happen by replacing individual bargaining with collective bargaining through unions. Human rights: international labour organization (ilo) is an agency of the united. Nations to establish standards on human rights as freedom from child labour, freedom of association and the right to collective bargaining. U(cid:374)io(cid:374)s" (cid:448)ie(cid:449)s diffe(cid:396) f(cid:396)o(cid:373) (cid:373)a(cid:374)age(cid:396)s a(cid:374)d (cid:272)o(cid:396)po(cid:396)ate leade(cid:396)s. Democratic mandate of union leaders is a source of strength and a constraint on their behaviour. Unions must have, as one of their purposes, collective bargaining with the firm. They must be independent of the employer; a company union (created by the o(cid:396)ga(cid:374)izatio(cid:374)) (cid:449)ould(cid:374)"t (cid:395)ualif(cid:455) as a union under canadian labour law. The categories of unions are non-distinct and do not define all unions. Craft/occupational unionism: first wave of unionization between end of 19th century and beginning of 20th century.