Transcript OBJECTIVES OF UNION - NUS Business School

Chapter 5
Employers
Trade unions
Government
Trade Unions
Objectives of Union
Collective bargaining
Safeguarding jobs
Cooperate with employer
Political activities
Social activities
Types of Unions
Craft union
General union
Staff union
Industrial union
House union
Why Join Union?
• Higher wages
• Job security
- Social need
- Peer pressure
- Self fulfilment
Brief History
• 1959-63
• 1963-65
• 1965-68
• 1968-72
• 1972-90
• 1990s
• SATU vs NTUC
• Malaysia & separation
• British withdrawal amend
employment laws
• Labour modernisation
• NWC tripartite wage
determination
• NTUC overseas investment
NTUC: Objectives
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Improve employment conditions
Enhance status of workers
Upgrade skills and productivity
Recreation facilities for workers
Take part in national policy making
• (NWC, Member of Parliament …)
Union Structure
Affiliated unions
Delegates’ conference
Branch level
Union headquarters
National level
FIVE PILLARS
 Enhance employability
 Strengthen partnership
 Build healthy body and mind
 Care and share
 Enlarge membership
Union Activities
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Collective bargaining
Support national wage policy
Support extension of retirement
Support productivity campaign
Ensure health and safety
Provide recreation facilities
Union Membership 1990-2005
Year
1990
1999
Union Membership (Number)
212,200
268,700
2000
2001
314,500
338,300
2002
2003
2004
2005
389,700
417,200
443,900
450,000
Cooperatives
• FairPrice
supermarket
• INCOME insurance
• Childcare
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Foodfare
Media cooperative
Choice home
Eldercare
Healthcare
NTUC Organisations
 SINGAPORE LABOUR FOUNDATION
 Funded by unions
 Provide recreation facilities
 OTC INSTITUTE OF LABOUR
STUDIES
 Provide training for union leaders