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Written by John Earls
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Tuesday, 10 October 2006 |
In May 2006 Amicus launched its 'Good Work' campaign and published 'An Agenda for Better Jobs', outlining the key elements that need to be considered in the pursuit of improving the quality of people's working lives.
As part of the campaign we also conducted an on-line survey asking people to identify how their jobs matched up against these criteria. The findings of that survey are published in a new report 'Unions and Good Work'.
It finds that the areas where people's working lives are most lacking are job security, control over the working environment, and being treated with fairness and dignity at work.
There is a strong correlation between people having a trade union voice in the workplace and reporting positive experiences in respect of being treated fairly at work, and feeling in control of their working environment.
63% of those with a trade union voice in the workplace said that they were treated with fairness and dignity at work compared to 44% of those without.
48% of those with a union voice in the workplace said they feel in control of their working environment compared to 39% of those without.
Copies of both the 'Unions and Good Work' report and the Amicus 'Agenda for Better Jobs' are also available on the Amicus website at www.amicustheunion.org/goodwork
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