er in work. This disadvantage has been partly in recent times with the advent of productivity deals.
Collective bargaining is also a political institution in that it regulates and defends interaction between trade unions and management. In a social context, the consequences of this system is regulation of industrial conflict. This can help ensure that an industrial conflict is kept within reasonable bounds, and that in most cases the militant elements in trade unions are kept under control by virtue of the fact that the majority of the workforce see
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