Industrial Realation
Industrial Realation
Introduction
1.1 Industrial Relation (IR)
Industrial relations, labor and employers is the rights and obligations between the relationship that both parties signed by the labor contract and collective agreement and set up. Labor relations or employment relations between the known, one is hired by an employer engaged in work for wages, the other is to hire workers to do the owners, business operators do the responsible person or representative of the owners who deal with labor issues, each other Relationship between employee and employer is liable.
It involves a range of industrial relations to a wide covered the working conditions, child labor protection for female workers, labor and management, productivity, promotion, rewards and punishments, such as breach of contract management and dispute resolution are the. The era of relations in the handicraft industry, a close rapport between teacher and student, does not occur any problem, but since the industrial revolution, machines replaced human, but was even heavy machinery and light human, sharply divided between employers and employees. Therefore, form a serious labor problem.
Industrial relations, employee and the performance of conflict and
Cooperation between employers, the further in-depth content also includes
the employment relationship in order to price and the struggle for political
power theories, technologies and systems. It involves not only the workers, trade
Unions and employers, but also with the Government and various public directly
or indirectly associated.
(1) state-owned and collective enterprises. Institutions such enterprises management, party organizations, trade unions and trade union congress. Management staffs, including manager director are employees of the State, so the workers enjoy the same rights to join trade unions.
(2) the private sector. Here, the relationship between employees and enterprises to maintain complete by the contract. Union rate is not high, especially in the face of Chinas current labor situation in a buyers market; employers have the bargaining power of absolute bargain. Some small private employee benefits, job security, improve the treatment requirements are not standardized management and protection. Even some private enterprises to family-management-based, paternalistic labor relations is not only the authority of making complex, difficult to determine, and the benefits and protection of workers is also difficult to achieve.
(3) foreign companies. There are two foreign-funded enterprises: First, the EU, Sino-US joint ventures or wholly owned enterprises, which with the trade unions, party branches and the Chinese management team to form a united front, business relationship management and workers are not confrontational. Even if the workers have grievances against the Chinese managers often because they are low, corruption or cronyism. Second, East Asia, Southeast Asia Investment Company, where workers are poorly paid, relatively poor working conditions, frequent accidents, and labor disputes occurred frequently.
1.2 Trade Union
Trade union organization is the representative of the interests of workers in the modern social organizations, trade unions formed by workers of the special social organization. Involved in the trade union movement and the economic life of workers in all aspects of social life, especially in labor relations and changing the formation has important implications.
The existence of trade unions, but also to the representatives of workers as to the contradictions in labor relations and labor issues negotiate with the employer side, such as wages, working hours, labor and other aspects of treatment while maintaining the rights of workers carrying out activities. Representatives of the group as workers, trade unions become a market economy in an important part of labor relations, as the representative of the