Labor Unions in North America and West Europe have different ways of developing and managing the corporation of workers and their Unions. The disparities depends on the common decision-making procedures of shop floor, core and strategies; the shop floor guides on the work methods and the production procedures; the core addresses the issue of wage, wage hours and other contracts of employment; lastly strategic addresses the issues of production ranging from level, design and price.
In Western Europe unions, a great variances is imminent with regard to the core mechanisms; the employees are entitled to information, consultation and participation in union development to a certain degree for cohesion breeding amongst the workers in a business setting. In Wester Unions such as Germany, unionists are allowed in board of directors which makes it easier for implementation of collective bargaining and an agreement between the workers and the employers; also the unionists assist the companies to make employee sensitive decisions. This state in the Western Unions enable the turnover rates to be very minimal and the wage rate to be adequate for the workers; this breeds an ever-growing economy.
In North America Unions, the involvement of unionists in the running of the coorporatives is not widely employed. The workers in most organizations do not have a unionists in the board of directors and as a result the decisions made by the organizations are sometimes employee-unfavorable as it may regard the budget cut inclusive of lowering wages. Since the representation of the workers is minimal in the board of directors, the interests of the workers are not put into consideration.
In North America Unions, there is limited Worker Cooperative; Worker Cooperatives allows the workers of an organization to vote and hire managers and also strategize on the direction the company should follow. This allows the workers to commit to their objectives comfortably with a suitable leader or manager; this is called Industrial Democracy. The phenomenon is not widely used in North America leading to little involvement of the North America Unions in organizations. The end-results is the high turnover rates in North America’s companies, working under minimal wages and frequent worker’s strike which affects the economy negatively.