labour unions - greater st. albert catholic schools
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Labour Unions
How has the emergence of labour unions impacted market and mixed
economies?
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Q: Why were Labour Unions formed?
A: To fight for the rights of workers who were being treated unfairly and taken advantage of by employers.
Cheap Labour and GoodsNike Sweatshop
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What are they?
-‐ an organiza*on of workers that acts to protect workers' rights and interests.
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Collective Bargaining - negotiating as a group. Is the KEY right established by unions for workers.
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Strike - a stoppage of work by the employees of a company. Strikes pressure employers to respond to issues that concern wokers.
McDonald's Strikers
Superstore Strike
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Boycott - a decision by consumers to stop buying a product or service as a way to bring about change.
Sometimes, the public will boycott products or services to show support for employees.
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What's a General Strike?
- workers in different sectors of the economy, in a particular place, organize to stop working at the same time.
- Winnipeg, 1919
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Why is Collective Bargaining and Striking effective for unions and their members?
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Because of labour unions, what kinds of changes do you think have been made to the ways in which governments or corporations operate, especially when dealing with employees or people in the work force?
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How do you think unions effect the quality of life of their members? In other words, how is the quality of life of employees impacted when they belong to unions?
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Solidarity Forever
When the union's inspiration through the workers' blood shall runThere can be no power greater anywhere beneath the sunYet what force on earth is weaker than the feeble strength of oneFor the Union makes us strong
ChorusSolidarity forever, solidarity foreverSolidarity foreverFor the Union makes us strong
It is we who ploughed the prairies, built the cities where they tradeDug the mines and built the workshops, endless miles of railroad laidNow we stand outcast and starving 'mid the wonders we have madeBut the union makes us strong
They have taken untold millions that they never toiled to earnBut without our brain and muscle not a single wheel can turnWe can break their haughty power gain our freedom when we learnThat the Union makes us strong
In our hands is placed a power greater than their hoarded goldGreater than the might of armies magnified a thousandfoldWe can bring to birth a new world from the ashes of the oldFor the Union makes us strong
song
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