Union's Control On Labor Relations

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to this was a tightly knit union culture which used the conflict to build political and economic stability According to Hassel (2000) the unions vs. management symbiosis was built on three foundations.

1. The employment-based funding of social security characterized the link between employment and welfare, and made full employment a necessary precursor of future economic stability.

2. The production of mass consumer goods in integrated manufacturing industries defined the complementary link between the production model on which social order was built and the employment system.

3. The increasing replacement ratios of welfare provisions allowed by constant productivity growth were the basis on which the link between the production model and the welfare state rested.

The `institutionalization of class conflict' in the form of the incorporation of trade unions into the political system was a central element of these post-war configurations. Trade unions were important ...

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worked together to forge the post war union labor paradigm, so today changing social forces, higher unemployment, changing political forces, increasingly conservative political leaders, and economic forces, technology in the work place, are forging the new economic understanding of the economic, social and political value of workforce flexibility.
The previous paradigm focused on supersession of job control unionism and bureaucratic lines of progression and job bumping based on rights. Adversarial relations ultimately evolved until the unions and management operations became counter productive to the operation of the business, and thus both were harmed. Under the new flexibility, ...

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