Belgium flights cancelled on Wednesday amid strike

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47211043?intlink_from_url=https://www.bbc.com/news/topi
cs/c1xp1l2rzjdt/trade-unions&link_location=live-reporting-
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Irish psychiatric nurses refuse overtime work
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47070077?intlink_from_url=https://www.bbc.com/news/topi
cs/c1xp1l2rzjdt/trade-unions&link_location=live-reporting-
story
Madrid Taxi Strike Intensifies After Barcelona Drivers Are
Offered Concessions
 https://www.nytimes.com/2019/01/23/world/europe/spain-
taxi-strikes-
uber.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FStrikes&action=cli
ck&contentCollection=timestopics&region=stream&module=
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llection
Associations of workers formed to represent
their interests and improve their pay and
working conditions
 Negotiate(for e.g.working hours,wages)
 Working conditions
 Information(for e.g.pensions)
 Education and training
 Range of benefits(for e.g.stike pay)
 Pressuring the government
 Increased work
 Participation in business decision making

 COLLECTIVE BARGAINING
 Productivity
 Profits
 Comparability
 Cost of living
 Craft unions
 General unions
 Industrial unions
 White collar unions
 Benefits to a worker
 Benefits to an employer
 Level of economic activity
 No. of members
 Level of skills
 Consistent demand for the product
 Open Shop/Closed Shop/ Single Union
Agreement
 Overtime ban
 Work to rule
 Strikes(official/unofficial)
 Go Slow

 ARBITRATION
 Discuss the impact of trade unions