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• Corporatism


  An institutional framework integrating labor, capital, and the state
• The Corporatist Approach


  • Governments promote strengthening regional integration and global relations
  • Policies aimed to improve economic efficiency, create employment, and ensure sound labour relations
  • Focused on eliminating workplace inequality, discrimination
• Trade unions


  Collective bargaining and solidarity associations regulating employed-employer benefits
• Classifications of trade unions


  • Occupational
  • Craft
  • Promotional
  • Professional
  • Unskilled and semi-skilled
• Strong trade unions


  • Reduces number of unions
  • Centralised bargaining
  • Limits inter-union competition
• Trade union objectives


  • Wages, employment, security
  • Equality, social justice
  • Learning and development
  • Creating safe work environment
• Trade union methods


  • Collective bargaining
  • Mediation
  • Lobbying and political engagement
• Major trade union goals

  • Representation
  • Stable and peaceful industrial relations processes
  • Political engagement
• The organisation and management of trade unions

  1. General membership

  2. Shop stewards

  3. Local branches

  4. Regional/national committees

  5. Federation

  6. International bodies
• Shop stewards


  Help in representing and assisting union members
• Duties of shop stewards

  • Recruiting members, representing them, and negotiating with management
  • Organising meetings, participating in committees, advising employees
  • Performing union duties and contributing to workplace relationships
• Employers' and employees' organisations

  • Balance power of unions, standardise conditions, and protect interests
  • Functions include negotiating minimum wages and providing information to members
• Legal position of trade unions

  • Voluntary when it comes to registration and specific obligations
  • Requirements include keeping member registers, financial records, and submitting audits
• Industrial unions


  Aim to represent workers in industries
• Sectional unions


  Aim to represent workers in sectors
• Advantages of strong unions

  • Reduces number of unions
  • Centralised bargaining
  • Eliminates inter-union competition
• Strong unions aim to advantage workers