JS380 Lecture Notes - Bargaining Unit, Collective Bargaining, Determinative

• School: University of Regina
• Department: Justice Studies
• Course: JS380
• Professor: Stefan Idziak

Document Summary

Only union workers can be employed at the workplace. Metroland printing, publishing and distributing ltd. , [2003] olrd. Large publisher of papers: has sales and distribution deparment, also has some temp/part-time workers, some cooperative student employees, all of permanent employees began as part-time. Employer wants part-time and temp workers in seperate bargaining units: argues that full-time and other workers not in acommunity of interest. Paid differently, receive different benefits, work on different schedules. Determining the bargaining unit is a public policy decisimn aimed at nehancing collective bargaining and ensuring a more harmonious relationship: not aimed at the simplest possible adminsitration. Employer says two requirements for finding an appropriate bargaining unit: sufficient community of interests, no serious labour relations problem for employer. Here no differences that would be likely to create serious labour relations problems. Employers suggestion would fragment bargaining unit in in appropriate way. Broader based bargaining units are better: more stable, more critical mass, easier to administrate.