Exercise of organisation right: collective bargaining

Collective bargaining is a process whereby unions negotiate with employers on issues which affect their members such as terms and conditions of employment, including wages.  Once bargaining has taken place over an issue  and an agreement has been reached, such an agreement is recorded in a document known as a collective agreement.

A collective agreement once negotiated and concluded by the trade unions and the employers, it is legally binding not only to the parties to the agreement but also to more employees who are members of a trade union.