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What’s a Labor Union?

What’s a Labor Union?. Who and what determine wages and hours?. Labor unions represent the needs of workers to employers. Differing views on healthcare strikes. Health care people are leaving their chosen profession for better paying jobs.

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What’s a Labor Union?

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  1. What’s a Labor Union?

  2. Who and what determine wages and hours? • Labor unions represent the needs of workers to employers.

  3. Differing views on healthcare strikes. • Health care people are leaving their chosen profession for better paying jobs. • Minister of Health would like the government to intervene and legislate the workers back to work. People are at risk.

  4. Why Strikes? • They are a form of pressure. During a strike the workers refuse to do their work. • Strikes if successful and improve your quality of life by; • Increasing your wages. • Improved hours of work and time off • Improved health care benefits.

  5. What’s a Labor Union? • Labor unions provide a way for workers to act as a group. Unions make collective bargaining possible. They are an organization of workers that acts to protect workers’ rights and interests.

  6. Why employers and unions need to bargain? • So they can both mutually agree on consensus that is best for both groups of people.

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