What type of businesses do unions target for organizing? A dynamic model of the union organizing process is constructed … union certification election. The model predicts two main selection effects: unions organizing occurs in larger and more … productive establishments early in their life-cycles, and among the establishments targeted for organizing, unions are more …

Analysen zur transnationalen Gewerkschaftspolitik / Croucher, R., Cotton, E. (2009): Global Unions, Global Business / Erne, R …. (2008): European Unions. Labor’s Quest for a Transnational Democracy / Rueb, S. (2009): Die Transnationalisierung der … Gewerkschaften. Eine empirische Untersuchung am Beispiel der IG Metall. Berlin / Institut fuer soziale Bewegungen (2009): Deutsche …

initial imprinting of the model, which stemmed from the circumstances in which the trade unions were reconstituted at the end … ideological lines, and within a context of enduring voluntarism and low institutionalisation, the Italian trade unions, which …

This paper examines the past, present and future trajectory of unions and the union movement in Britain to analyse …

Despite declining bargaining power, unions continue to generate a wage premium. Some feel collective bargaining has had … in the name of wage and employment flexibility, yet unions often work in tandem with employers for mutual gain based on … productivity growth. If this is where the premium originates, then firms and workers benefit. Without unions bargaining …

Since the beginning of the transformation in Poland, trade unions have experienced nearly two decades of declining …

It is well known that the organizing environment for labor unions in the U.S. has deteriorated dramatically over a long … environment will lead unions not only to contest fewer elections but also to focus on larger potential bargaining units and on …

Unlike most of the trade unions in European countries, Belgian unions managed to preserve a high and stable union … and the unions has been worsening for three decades. This article looks at the strengths and weaknesses of Belgian unions … and presents four initiatives of union revitalisation recently developed. The argument is that Belgian unions do not fully …