Unions

[Ocean Seal]

-What do you qualify as business unions?
-Why?
-Approximately how many people who are in unions are in what you would call business unions?
-What do you plan to do with these "business unions"?

[NewLeft]

A non-independent union that engages in class collaboration (between labour and capital) and does not participate in strikes is a business union.

I do not know how many people are in business unions, however I think membership is proportional to the amount of people in independent unions. Business unions are a reaction to independent unions.

I don't have any plan for these business unions, they are clearly not revolutionary, but the people who are in them may be otherwise.

[blake 3:17]

David Camfield, in his recent book on the Canadian union movement defines it as "An approach to union activity and ideology whose key features are a narrow focus on collective bargaining for wages and benefits, a generally cooperative approach to employers and a low level of democracy".