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What are we studying today?

What are we studying today?. Advice Negotiation Health & Safety Equal Opportunities Industry Views Strike TRADE UNION. Learning Objectives. Define and explain what a trade union is. To identify and list four types of trade unions. Identify the benefits of joining a trade union.

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What are we studying today?

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  1. What are we studying today? • Advice • Negotiation • Health & Safety • Equal Opportunities • Industry Views • Strike TRADE UNION

  2. Learning Objectives • Define and explain what a trade union is. • To identify and list four types of trade unions. • Identify the benefits of joining a trade union. • Investigate a trade union dispute and report back to the class on its outcomes.

  3. What are Trade Unions? “A trade union is an organisation whose principal purposes include the regulation of relations between employees and employers or employers associations”. (Dictionary of Business, 2002) Or “An organised group of employees, who discuss with the management, pay and conditions, on behalf of their members”. (Business Studies Online – accessed 25/05/2006)

  4. Trade Unions What’s your opinion?

  5. What do Trade Unions Want?

  6. Trade Unions & their workers…

  7. NASUWT • The National Association of Schoolmasters Union of Women Teachers - is the only TUC affiliated teachers' union representing teachers in all parts of the UK. NASUWT has over 200,000 members in branches all over England, Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland and in all sectors from early years to further

  8. FBU • The Fire Brigades Union - represents over 85% of the uniformed staff of the UK fire and service. Our members are frontline public service workers - covering the roles of Fire-fighter to Area Manager, including emergency fire control staff and fire-fighters working the retained duty system.

  9. ASLEF • Associated Society of Locomotive Engineers and Firemen - is Britain's trade union for train drivers. Its almost 18,500 members are employed in the train operating companies, the freight companies, London Underground and some Light Rapid Transport.

  10. PFA • The Professional Footballers Association - is the world’s longest established professional sportsmen’s union. The PFA directly and indirectly employs over 250 people in key areas such as education and training for post-football careers, accident and medical insurance, coaching, financial management, contract advice and pension management for all our 4,000 members both here and abroad.

  11. NUJ • The National Union of Journalists - was founded in 1907 and has fought for journalists, their pay and conditions, their working rights and their professional freedom ever since.

  12. NUS • The National Union of Students - is one of the largest student organisations in the world and represents the interests of around five million students in further and higher education throughout the United Kingdom. NUS provides research, representation, training and expert advice for individual students and students' unions.

  13. Investigating Trade Union Disputes • Research a Trade Union, you must investigate an industrial dispute that this trade union was involved in. You must produce a PPP of no more that three slides which answer the following questions; • What caused the dispute? • What action was taken by the trade union? • What was the final outcome?

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