### social organization:

Union
* Many unions hold title to real property through title-holding corporations.
* Most unions are decent, honest organizations dedicated to improving the lives of working people
  - in the public sector
* Most unions represent employees
  - public employees
  - use the mechanism of collective bargaining to achieve their goals
* Some unions have a non-political culture
  - produce offspring
  - provide short-term strike funds to workers who are forced to go out on strike
* are a modern concept, a product of industrial society
  - part of the fabric of Catholic social teachings
  - significant feature of contemporary societies, a factor in politics and economics
  - way for workers to turn that trend around and ensure they gain in prosperous times
  - about workers looking after each other
  - all about regulating how a company does business
* are an accouterment of major league sports
  - essential element in a democratic society
  - combinations
  - complex and sophisticated organizations, requiring effective management
* are democratic organizations controlled by their members
  - democratically run institutions
  - devices
  - experts at solving problems at work
  - extremely important, particularly in fields like home care that are dominated by women
  - happening
  - healing
  - institutions that stand for fairness and justice
  - just associations of people banded together for mutual protection and benefit
  - legal in the United States
* are located in algebra
  - laws
  - provinces
  - workplaces
  - nonprofit financial organizations that are owned by their members
  - often the catalysts for, and organizers of, boycotts
  - people in a workplace who join together for their mutual protection and benefit
  - political organization, and the democratic process works through their political process
  - popular in industrial sectors
  - powerful institutions
  - service organizations where it's members are the owners
  - sets
  - stations
* are the largest organized group of health care purchasers
  - specialists in dealing with work-related problems
  - used for excuses
* bring democracy to the workplace
  - peace and promote prosperity
* can also play a significant role in regulating who represents professional athletes
  - form in any business with more than one employee
* cause the loss of positions and reduce salaries to the lowest common denominator.
* continue to play a large role in the national economy and in federal elections.
* employ members.
* exist because groups have more power and strength than individuals.
* exist for the good of their members and families
  - welfare of their members, pure and simple
* give protection.
* guarantee that workers have freedom of speech and assembly.
* have a detrimental effect on the national economy.
* have additional requirements
  - time requirements
  - only people, because unions ARE people
* help settle grievances, raise wages, keep people off welfare and stabilize communities.
* increase wages for all workers.
* intervene in markets by having labor power, which they can sometimes use to get wages up.
* is an organization
* joining with bosses is harmful to workers in a number of ways.
* negotiate contracts with employers that spell out wages, benefits and working conditions.
* only teach greed and selfishness.
* provide social and economic justice to employees who work for an hourly wage.
* publish journals.
* represent construction workers
* require skills
  - unique skills
* tackle sex, race and age discrimination and aim to win opportunities for all.
* traditionally organize and operate freely without government regulation.
* vary in size and their affiliation with large national and international unions.
* work for equal treatment and fight discrimination.
+ Trade union, Activities
  * Unions do many things for their members.