Industrial Relations

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COMM 206.3
Employment and Industrial Relations
1/2(3L)

Investigates an array of perspectives of industrial and employment relations in work organizations. Examines the economics, political and social forces affecting the actors in these settings including the institutional framework affecting their practices and stresses the phenomenon of collective action as revealed through union and management strategies.

COMM 383.3
Industrial Relations and Labour Markets
1/2(3S)
Prerequisite(s): COMM 206.

A critical analysis of the economic foundation of trade unions and industrial relations. Major topics include the sources of union power, trade union wage policy, economic effects of trade unions, and income policy and collective bargaining.

COMM 387.3
Labour Law
1/2(3S) (Not offered 2002-2003)
Prerequisite(s): COMM 206.

Introduction to the collective bargaining policy, and particularly the Saskatchewan Trade Union Act and major labour relations board rulings. Rights arbitration will also be covered.

COMM 481.3
Collective Bargaining
1/2(3S)
Prerequisite(s): COMM 206.

Provides students with an understanding of the structures, processes and dynamics of collective bargaining. Among other topics it addresses dispute resolution mechanisms and current bargaining issues. Contains a bargaining simulation exercise.

COMM 485.3
Comparative Industrial Relations Systems
1/2(3S)

Analyses the collective bargaining process by a comparison of the history, structure and function of labour organizations, primarily in the Western democracies. However, some attention will be paid to the roles of trade unions, employers and the state in developing countries and in the countries making the transition from centralized state planning.