What role do Unions play in business and is that role both useful and important?
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A market is a way of cordoning and organising economic agents’ activity. The market permits a certain balance between demands and needs. Liberal economists consider the market as being the “best way of economical coordination if both clients and companies (Business) are hugely present.”
The different actors one could meet in the market are, of course, clients and business; but also some defence organisms of those two first: Unions.
In facts, it is important to consider them when studying the market place. It appears as logical that protection organisms exist but their actions may sometimes be doubtful.
We will deal in this essay with the role that Unions play in business and will see if their role is both useful and important.
To understand the existing link between business and unions, it is suitable …show more content…
It is thanks to Unions that France has its “congés payés”, a huge advance for workers’ rights.
Unions’ actions may also be useful when there are abuses from an employer. When having the power, people may act in a selfish way: for example, an employer refusing giving an employee his day off several times, and does not pay him furthermore is an abuse that happen.
The child labour is something unions are working on ending and lack of security: employing children to pay less is totally illegal and not normal; not respecting securities measures in order to save money is also something that needs to be fight (risking people’s health or lives to win money in obviously something unethical)
B - Are union’s actions ethical?
At first sight, yes. Defending people’s interests is something ethical. Not letting children working against their will is something ethical. Fighting against abuses is