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Q What is a "check-off agreement?
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A-Check-off" is an arrangement by which employers deduct trade union dues from the wages of members in their employment and pay them over to the union or unions concerned. The expression is an American one and in the UK preference is often given to phrases like "payroll deductionsor -deduction schemes". But "checkoff" is the simplest way of describing all these variations.
In the spring of 1966 in the UK the approximate proportions of trade union members on check-off was as follows: Central and local government 32.2 per cent, public corporation 46.8 per cent, co-operative societies 6.8 per cent and private employment 14.2 per cent.
But when the comparison is made industry by industry, transport and communications has the second largest proportion of trade union members on check-off, over 40 per cent, after mining and quarrying with over 70 per cent.