facilities. Viability is achieved by mobilisation of both members and employers. Trade unions may be seen as portfolios of viable …, concerning scale, growth, the impact of statutory recognition provisions, the emergence of conglomerate unions, governance …

Anecdotal evidence suggests that trade unions succeed in ameliorating workplace health and safety, but no attempt has … establishes a cross-sectional link between trade unions and occupational injury rates, revealing that unions gravitate to accident …-prone workplaces and react by reducing injury rates within these types of employment units. However, the ability for unions to reduce …

lower pay dispersion. Unions' minimum wage targets also truncate the lower tail of the union distribution. There are two … recognise unions than in the unorganised sector. Second, unions compress the wage structure by gender, race and occupation. …

on workplace closure and employment growth over the period 1997-2004. Unions prolonged the life of low-wage workplaces in … Britain, whereas Norwegian unions increased (reduced) closure hazards in high (low) waged workplaces. Contrary to earlier … studies, unions had no effect on workplace growth in Britain. In Norway, union workplaces experienced 4 percent per annum …

Performance-related pay (PRP) and performance management (PM) are now a part of the organizationallandscape that unions … simultaneously offer a new role to unions as providers of 'procedural justiceservices' to both union members and employers. We … for such services fromthe teachers' unions. Further, analysis of the PRP implementation process for classroom teachers …

with the idea that the incoming Labour government had a positive effect on the ability of unions to gain recognition …