Quebec unions negotiating with federal, provincial, or municipal governments were studied for two outcomes relevant to women’s social welfare: women’s elective status, and collective agreement provisions favourable to women workers. Multiple analytic methods explored two aims: to develop a model of unions’ interaction with women members, and to derive typologies of unions. Union typologies derived from cluster analysis show that unions ranking high on those measures relevant to women’s welfare show greatest similarity on the following indices: union democracy, educational programs, organizational responsiveness to women members, policy toward political and social change, internal union women’s committees, and percentage of women. Path analytic results reveal that women’s committees are a more effective intra-union strategy than is an electoral strategy; and that progressive union policy is necessary but not sufficient for women to achieve greater equality in collective barganing outcomes. The path model explained 55% of variance in collective agreement outcomes. / Cette etude porte sur deux questions relatives a la condition de la femme dans les syndicats qui, au Quebec, negocient avec les gouvernements federal, provincial et municipal: la representation de la femme dans les postes elus et les dispositions des conventions collectives favorables aux travailleuses. Differentes methodes d’analyses statistiques ont utilisees afin d’etablir un modele d’interaction entre les syndicats et leurs syndiquees ainsi que differentes typologies de syndicats. Ces typologies, derivees des analyses en grappes (cluster analysis), demontrent que les syndicats qui ont obtenu des resultats eleves dans les questions reliees a la la condition feminine ont Ie plus haut degre de similitude dans les indices suivants: democratie syndicale, programmes de formation, ouverture du syndicat face au femmes membres, position syndicale en regard des changements sociaux et politiques, comites internes sur la condition feminine, et proportion de femmes membres. Une illustration graphique selon Ie path analysis revele que les comites intrasyndicaux sur la condition feminine donnent de meilleurs resultats qU’une strategie electorale. Ces analyses indiquent egalement qu’une ideologie syndicale progressiste est necessaire mais non suffisante pour permettre aux femmes d’atteindre une plus grande egalite dans les conventions collectives. Ce modele d’analyse (path model) explique 55% des variances dans les dispositions des conventions collectives.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:QMM.97825 |
| Date | January 1984 |
| Creators | Heppner, Barbara |
| Contributors | Neysmith, Sheila (Supervisor) |
| Publisher | McGill University |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Electronic Thesis or Dissertation |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Coverage | Doctor of Philosophy (School of Social Work) |
| Rights | All items in eScholarship@McGill are protected by copyright with all rights reserved unless otherwise indicated. |
| Relation | alephsysno: 003513779, Theses scanned by McGill Library. |
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