trade unions and labour rights

Question 1

industrial revolution

Answer 1

18th AND 19TH CENTURY
- huge development of industry
- significant to employ large amounts of workers to power machines and growing factory developments

WORKING CONDTIONS IN BRITAIN
- leading to worker strikes for better working conditions (late 1700s)

COMBINATION ACT 1799
- after striking was seen as a possible threat to the government through uprisings
- strikes, trade unions and collective bargaining outlawed

Question 2

UK reform

Answer 2

ROYAL COMMISSION INTO TRADE UNIONS 1867
- pressure built to allow trade unions
- agreed that trade unions advantaged employers and employees

TRADE UNION ACT 1871
- Legalises trade unions

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Question 3

international recognition

Answer 3

AUSTRALIA
- 1881 trade unions legalised in Australia
- 1891 Australian Labor Party starts to advocate Labour rights
- through these recognition, Australian workers have privileges such as long service leave, eight hour working day, maternity leave etc

INTERNATIONAL LABOUR ORGANISATION (ILO) 1919
- The organisation formed as an agency for the League of Nations as our primary organisation for improving conditions for workers

UN AND UDHR
- under article 23 and 24, there is the right to form and join trade unions

Question 4

grey areas with trade union and labour rights

Answer 4

• still issues with fair work conditions. for example, the 7/11 underpaying staff in 2015: the seven-eleven chain stores were found to grossly underpay workers