Cheap rider
Cheap rider is an employee within a bargaining unit who choose not to join the union that bargains for an agreement but is required to pay a fee to the union to provide their share of the costs associated with negotiations (usually 80 to 85 percent of the regular union dues).
Definitions
According to Labor Relations and Collective Bargaining by Michael R. Carrell and Christina Heavrin (10th edition),
- Cheap rider. An employee within a bargaining unit who choose not to join the union that bargains for an agreement but is required to pay a fee to the union to provide their share of the costs associated with negotiations (usually 80 to 85 percent of the regular union dues).
Related concepts
- Labor relations. The systematic study of attitudes, motivations, and behaviors which two or more job-market actors assume toward each another.
