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This study examines the potential impact of works councils and unions on the deployment of fixed-term contracts and agency temps. We report inter al. that works councils are associated with a higher number of temporary agency workers when demand volatility is high while the opposite holds for...
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councils may be construed as largely beneficial. However, any such optimistic evaluation is heavily qualified by union … organization and in particular workplace unionism. Establishment union density seemingly blunts the performance of employee …
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union based entities on the other. The role of unionism is also central to this inquiry, not only with respect to the degree … to which workplace representation is union dominated but also and more familiarly perhaps through workplace union density … reduced strike activity. However, any such effect is sensitive in particular to the union status of work councilors and time …
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councils are associated with reduced strike activity. However, where union members make up a majority of works councillors …, such union-dominated councils experience greater strike activity than do their counterparts with minority union membership …, and also more strikes than establishments with union workplace representation where union members are in a minority …
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councils are associated with reduced strike activity. However, where union members make up a majority of works councillors …, such union-dominated councils experience greater strike activity than do their counterparts with minority union membership …, and also more strikes than establishments with union workplace representation where union members are in a minority …
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Using the 2019 ECS, we investigate the relationship between union organization, workplace representation, industrial … union density is higher and where workers are covered by mixed-level collective agreements. Distrust and strained workplace …-win outcomes, where the default is unresolved outcomes. Higher union density is associated with worker wins, collective bargaining …
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Industrial relations are in flux in many nations, perhaps most notably in Germany and Britain. That said, comparatively little is known in any detail of the changing pattern of the institutions of collective bargaining and worker representation in Germany and still less in both countries about...
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change. -- Union recognition ; union coverage ; sectoral and firm-level collective bargaining ; works councils ; joint …
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This paper investigates trends in collective bargaining and worker representation in Germany from 2000 to 2008. It seeks to update and widen earlier analyses pointing to a decline in collective bargaining, while providing more information on the dual system as a whole. Using data from the IAB...
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