A union is an organisation of workers gathering together to defend the rights and mutual goals such as higher wages, working condition and welfares. In the late 18th century Britain, a large amount of women, children and immigrants are integrating into the work forces, whose skills are relatively weak, were spontaneously establishing a substantial arena for the union later. This is the origin of the union today. However, the same knife cuts bread and finger, not only are there advantages of unionisation for workers, firm and society, but also disadvantages. In the following paragraphs, I will discuss both sides of a high level unionisation. In this paragraph, I will discuss the impacts of unionisation for individual workers. Firstly, according …show more content…
Unions devoted to raise salaries to a greater degree for “low-skilled” than for ‘high skilled ’workers, which leads to the deduction of the lessen of wage inequality. Form the table, it is quite obvious that the percentage of union wage premiums for blue collar was much higher than white collar (23.3% vs 2.2%), in the sense of the skill levels, similar phenomenon occurred in education section, with 35.5% union wage premiums for high school or less group, 20.8% for high school ones and 5.1% for college ones. Last but not the least, the lowest fifth received the most portion of union wage premium (27.9%), while there were only 0.9% being sent to fourth …show more content…
Health insurance for example, which was also the biggest portion among these benefits, was covered more than 4/5 by union, while was only covered less than 2/3 than no-union. Moreover, the adjusted difference between union and nonunion for pension was 23.6%. As for paid leave for vacation weeks, the difference was relatively small, with 2.98 in union and 2.35 in nonunion. Furthermore，job security is another merits of unions for workers. Since workers are a part of the unions, unions will try their best to assure that workers land for a permanent