Good Work Through Decent Work: Practices of Sixteen Unionized Firms in the Philippines (original) (raw)

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This paper aims to describe the good work, through the decent work practices of 16 unionized firms, in the hotel, banking, airline, and broadcast industries in the Philippines, as stipulated in their Collective Bargaining Agreements (CBAs), and based on five Decent Work Agenda dimensions. This study is primarily founded on the Social Doctrine of the Church on Human Work; the ILO’s Decent Work Agenda as incorporated in Ghai’s (2006) model; and the theory of Collective Bargaining of Edralin (2003). Results showed that there are many good work, through decent work practices of unionized firms, in the aspects of opportunities for work, productive work, equity in work, security at work, and representation at work, as provided in their CBAs. Findings also revealed that collective bargaining is a powerful vehicle that can help ensure that the implementation of the five dimensions of decent work in the workplace can lead to the securing of just wages, strengthening of unions, inclusion of t...

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