AQA A Level · 7136 · Paper 1: Markets and market failure
4.1.6.5 Trade Unions
A-level only
Everything you need for questions on the influence of trade unions on wages and employment, in the words examiners reward. An interactive seven-step lesson goes with it.
What's on this sheet
- What trade unions do
- What affects a union's influence?
- Union wages in different labour markets
- Competitive market vs monopsony
- Other effects of unions
- Classic question: do trade unions cause unemployment?
- Side 2: practice tasks, where the marks go, and exam-style questions
- Separate answer key
The lesson in seven steps
- Same union, two kinds of labour market
- How strong is the union?
- Stronger union, weaker union, or productivity effect?
- Union wages and jobs
- Unions: good or bad?
- Build the chain
- Exam practice
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