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Industrial Relations
Definitions
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Industrial relations | Relationship between employers and employees in the workplace |
| Trade dispute | Conflict over terms and conditions, the employment or non employment of any person |
| Trade union | Interest group which seeks to improve conditions and pay of its members eg. SIPTU |
| Shop steward | Union representative in the workplace, elected by co-workers |
| Productivity claim | Pay increase for extra work |
| Comparability claim | Want a pay increase because people doing similar work have received a pay increase |
| Relatively claim | Designed to maintain pay differentials between employees at different levels |
| Cost of living claim | In order to keep up with inflation |
| 1990 Industrial relations act | Law governing disputes and established LRC |
| LRC | Labour Relations Commission -promotes good IR |
| Secondary picketing | Picketing place of second employer who is frustrating strike being resolved |