The Influence of trade unions in determining wages and levels of employment: AQA A‑Level Economics questions
Every AQA A-Level Economics exam question on 4.1.6.5 The Influence of trade unions in determining wages and levels of employment, 2020–2025, with its mark scheme and examiner’s report.
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- June 2025, Paper 3, Q21 (1 mark): Table 6 shows the size of the UK labour force and the percentage of the labour force belonging to a trade union in 2012 and 2022. Table 6 Size of the labour for
- June 2024, Paper 1, Q08 (25 marks): Extract F (lines 12–13) states that ‘Collective pay bargaining, reinforced by the threat of strikes, has achieved some notable successes for workers’. Using the
- June 2024, Paper 3, Q30 (1 mark): Figure 8 shows the market demand (DL) and supply (SL) of labour in a labour market with a trade union. The initial trade union negotiated wage is W2. Figure 8 T
- June 2023, Paper 1, Q12 (25 marks): Evaluate the view that labour markets work best when strong monopsony power is balanced by trade union power. [25 marks] Essay 2 Since the 1980s, politicians ha
- June 2022, Paper 1, Q03 (9 marks): Extract C (lines 4–5) states that, as a result of trade union action, ‘The hospital trust increased their £8.21 minimum wage to the London Living Wage of £10.75
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