Unions and workers

The past or current tendency of unionizing or not, is the proof of the diversity of our working environment. Some factors are therefore influencing or refraining workers from joining an union: 1) Positive Factors: • Strong craft unions: unions such as IGMETAL, are achieving job-related goals, since they benefit from substantial memberships. Therefore, they are able to defend crafts’ demands. • Work force ’s protection: in a competitive context, employers are prone to implement their own policies, despite …

…order to impose their conditions and demands, unions are prone to focus on confrontation rather than on co-operation (mainly strikes). • Furthermore, french unions are unable to federate craft-unions. Therefore, agreements have to be reached with a diversity of unions. • Finally, employees do not believe that unions are able to protect and to defend their own rights. Thus, a certain decline of the unionization is noticed at present. 107 words Bibliography introduction to modern business 6th edition