COMMERCE 2BC3 Study Guide - Canada Industrial Relations Board, United Automobile Workers, United Steelworkers
13 Apr 2014
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Management: wants to maximize profit and care for shareholders. Labour: interested in fair treatment of workers: fixing working conditions, higher wages, and any other things that are lobbied to the law to improve worker rights. First started out as people wanting to protect their trades in local areas. 1800"s: labour was scarce for employers, employees could easily fight for rights. Craft unions: organization of skilled specialists in a particular trade and craft: ex. Toronto printers union: most were local and regional. Unions were not legal until 1872 when the trades union act was passed: even before and after unions were legalized, labour history has been known to be bloody with really bad endings to strikes (ex. Industrial union: consists of unskilled to semi-skilled workers in mass production industries like automobiles and mining. Union local: represents one store or small agency within a town: can also represent a number of stores with a small region.
