LABRST 1A03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Industrial Unionism, Kitchen Debate, Industrial Democracy
11 Apr 2015
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Once you have a collective agreement, you work on that agreement not organizing workers to take action or work against companies, or disrupting work in general. Role of organizations: used to be the most important; mobilizing workers and get them focused on particular issue, now they don"t have that much to do now that there are collective agreements. Number of paid organizers starts to becoming less pronounced. Handling managements issues and a lot of membership is not engaged don"t understand what is in the agreement. Workers have always wanted some sort of control over the work. By 1950s unions are hardly talking about that at all. Collective agreements are what they have to get this. Management rights: technical clause in most agreements whatever is not explicitly in the agreements, then management ways are the way things will be done (example, management can lay off anyone that they want)
