Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Learning objective
Direct participation
Individualism’ – unitary
Indirect participation (representative)
‘Collectivism’ – pluralist & conflict
Unionism
Non-union
Workplace representation
Non-union
worker participation vs industrial democracy
TU
formation
recognition
Trade Union
Definition –
•any organization, whose membership consist of
employees, which seeks to organize & represent their
interest both in the workplace & society & in
particular, seeks to regulate the employment
relationship through the direct process of CB with
management
Belief in utility
Trade union objectives
Providing direct services to their members
Industrial pressure
Political action
Union structure
Plant level
Branch level
National level
Types of unions