The most obvious benefit the free riders receive without pay unions subscriptions are pay rises resulting from collective bargaining because employers under law are not permitted to discriminate between union and non-union members. Data from the annual government Labour Force Survey suggests the number of ‘free riders’ has remained at around one million workers in the last decade.
rs deduct a percentage of the cost of a union subscription from each worker’s wage, even if they are not union members. In spite of the legal uncertainty surrounding these agreements, Unite goes on signing them in businesses where it has a high level of density. By Gregor Gall, Research Professor of Industrial Relations and Director of the Work and Employment Research Unit (WERU), University of Hertfordshire. (Ref. 120580)
The most obvious benefit the free riders receive without pay unions subsc
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