Social Workers and Labor Relations: Understanding Key Concepts
Social Workers and Labor Relations
Democracy
Democracy is a form of organizing groups of people, whose dominant feature is that the ownership of power resides in all of its members, making decisions that respond to the collective will of the members of the group. Strictly speaking, democracy is a form of government, organizing the state, in which collective decisions are taken by the people through participatory mechanisms that directly or indirectly confer legitimacy to representatives. Broadly speaking, democracy is a form of social interaction in which members are free and equal, and social relations are established according to contractual arrangements.
Unions
A union is a democratic organization composed of workers in defense and promotion of their social, economic, and professional interests involved in their work, about the center of production (factory, shop, company) or employer that are related to the contract. The union’s main objective is the welfare of its members, and to generate, through the unit, sufficient bargaining power to establish a dynamic of social dialogue between employers and workers. Freedom of association for workers to create, organize, join, not join or leave, or change the union is free and without interference by the state, employers, or other unions. It is considered a basic human right.
Business Organizations (Employer)
In terms of the employer’s labor relations, it is the group of people and instances in which decisions are made that affect recruitment, conditions of service, and dismissal of workers as employees. The employer creates a job with the aim of which is occupied by an employee under his authority and through an employment contract.
Social Dialogue
In the strict sense, social dialogue refers to the relations of communication, consultation, and negotiation between governments, employers, and trade unions on issues of common interest. In a broad sense, the term “social dialogue” is used to refer to a type of horizontal relationship between the state and civil society organizations (businesses, unions, associations, groups, communities, etc.). In order to jointly address social problems and help develop solutions based on consensus. The term social dialogue is also understood as a gender that refers to all actions of horizontal relationship, bilateral, trilateral, or multilateral, between social actors, including the State.
Social Partnership
Social partnership refers to the tripartite social dialogue between government, employers, and unions, while collective bargaining is called bipartite social dialogue between employers and workers.
Corporatism
Corporatism is the political and social doctrine which advocates government intervention in the conflict resolution work order through the creation of associations which bring together employers and employees. Unlike the classic union, corporatism today is a doctrine that advocates an economic system based on unification, by corporations within the State, of all trade union organizations: business, labor, professionals, etc. It is a form of socioeconomic organization by the National Socialist regimes, and emphasized the union and the planned economy. The term should be distinguished from that used in a pejorative sense to designate any government interventionist policy designed to favor corporations, meaning in this case by “corporation” meaning his other terminology that refers to corporations characteristics of modern capitalist systems.
Welfare State
Welfare state is a general model of the state or social organization, which provides certain services or social guarantees to all inhabitants of a country. Rather than a specific concept, it is considered that the term is a practical category to designate either a set of proposals or a comprehensive proposal about how the state can or should proceed.