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LEGISLATION giving workers the right to have their union recognised by their employer exists but is weak and little used.
The Employment Relations Act 1999 (ERA) has a deep basic design flaw in that it only confers recognition of trade unions as legitimate representatives of workers after their employer has been given a number of opportunities to weaken their position.
Today there is a huge imbalance of power in the workplace. Only one in four workers has their working conditions set by collective bargaining, compared with three in four in the 1970s.
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