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Will a Union Presence and Collective Bargaining result in Increase Wages Bills

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In recent months the trade unions are trying to exert a pressure again, Unison members in local government went on a two day strike in July 2008 in order to  protest the 2.45% pay deal that had been offered. The strike was not a resounding success as many schools, libraries and other local authority facilitates were closed, and other local  authority services were disrupted, but in total it was estimated that only 300,000 local authority workers went on strike (Weaver, 2008). The unions once held a great deal of  power over employers, with the use of collective barging and threat of union actions being used to increase wages and better general working condition. This created a model of conflict  between the unions and the employers, a model that is similar to that seen in the US, but very different from the cooperative models seen in countries such as Japan.  The idea was that collective bargaining and the power of the unions gave employees too much power which helped to lead to problems such as wage inflation and loss  of control over the business by the owners and management was presented as a political fact, and part of ten reason why Thatcher decided to break the unions, as it  was argued this would be beneficial to businesses, help them grow, become more efficient and compete in the national as well as global context. Unions have now lost power, but  they can still have an influence if they are present in a workplace. A decision many employers have to make today  is whether or not to recognise a union presence within the workplace, once recognised the recognition is permanent. It is interesting to look at the role of unions in the