Question

What were three changes that workers hoped to make by forming trade unions?

Answer 1

Answer:

• Today, unions are usually formed for the purpose of securing improvement in pay, benefits, working conditions, or social and political status through collective bargaining by the increased bargaining power wielded by the banding of the workers.
• The typical activities of trade unionsinclude providing assistance and services to their members, collectively bargaining for better pay and conditions for all workers, working to improve the quality of public services, political campaigning and industrial action
• Unions can affect the supply of labour in three ways. Firstly, unions can attract workers into the labour market because of the benefits of becoming a member. ... Thirdly, by influencing wages through collective bargaining the supply curve for unionised workers is more inelastic than one for non-unionised workers.