unions and approval rates in a buisness?

[danyboy27]

In my Province the rule is simple, if 51% of people within a buisness agree to join a union, then the whole workforce become unionised.

In theory, this concept is great beccause it give to people within the workforce more leverage against the manager and the bosses, but in practive, it stop any process of unionisation within a buisness composed of 51% of reactionaries.

does anyone know if there are states or countries with differents kind of rules and regulation concerning union membership?

Where i work for exemples, we are a fews people who would be willing to create a union, but we dont belong to the same trade, i work in the service, some in sales, other in customer support, and to convince other peoples to agree with us on that subject to obtain 51% approval is a lost cause.

If only we could just get our shit together and agree to forms our own little union, watch eachother back, perhaps people would come to realize the benefits of this kind of system and sign up.

But hey, in my province its 51% or nothing.

[RGacky3]

In situations like that industrial unions always work better, organize on a shop basis. Its better to have a single issue and let it spread. BTW you don't have to be a union shop to have strong union influence in the shop, I've worked in non union and union shops, and we union guys got a lot done in non union shops as well.

[Demogorgon]

There are quite a few different rules around the world. In Britain for instance most people are unionised but "closed shops" as you describe them don't really exist any more since Thatcher. On the other hand there are countries where Union membership is mandatory for anyone falling into a broad definition of what a worker is, with the choice of course being what Union you join.