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Smothering the Right to Strike : Work Choices and Industrial Action

McCrystal, Shae - 2008

This article examines the recent changes to the federal legal regime that controls the taking of protected industrial action in Australia. It considers the impact of both the Building and Construction Industry Improvement Act 2005 (Cth) and the Workplace Relations Amendment (Work Choices) Act...

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The future of the French trade unions

Andolfatto, Dominique; Labbé, Dominique - In: Management revue : MRev 23 (2012) 4, pp. 341-352

This article investigates the transformations of the French unionism and of the French system of industrial relations over the last years and their probable future. It shows: an evolution from a militant unionism to a professionalized trade unionist system; the decline of collective actions; the...

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The future of the French trade unions

Andolfatto, Dominique; Labbé, Dominique - In: Management Revue 23 (2012) 4, pp. 341-352

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010332832

Efficiency Wages, Unio-Firm Bargaining, and Strikes

MAULEON, Ana; VANNETLEBOSCH, Vincent J. - Institut de Recherche Économique et Sociale (IRES), … - 2001

We consider efficiency wage effects in a union-firm bargaining model with private information. We show that efficiency wage effects do not necessarily increase the wage level at equilibrium. However, if it is commonly known that the union is stronger than the firm and the productivity enhancing...

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Hollywood on Strike! (Excerpts)

Handel, Jonathan - 2015

The Writers Guild went on strike in 2007. The big issue: fees for programs released on new media such as the Internet. The strike was settled one hundred turbulent days later – but then the Screen Actors Guild spiraled out of control, unwilling to accept the same terms but unable to muster a...

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Down in the Vale : Corporate Globalization, Unions on the Defensive, and the USW Local 6500 Strike in Sudbury, 2009-2010

Peters, John - 2011

This article assesses one of the longest private sector strikes in Canadian history - the United Steelworkers (USW …

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Its Own Dubious Battle : The Impossible Defense of an Effective Right to Strike

White, Ahmed - 2018

literature that stresses the importance of strikes and strongly criticizes the arguments that judges, legislators, and others … Article takes up this question. It affirms the crucial role that strikes have played in building the labor movement … verifies the integral role that strikes play in contesting the enormous power capitalism accords employers over the workplace …

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Market Integration and Strike Activity

Mauleon, Ana; Vannetelbosch, Vincent J. - 2005

We consider a two-country model of wage determination with private information in unionized imperfectly competitive industries. We investigate the effects of separated product markets opening up for competition as well as of further market integration on the negotiated wage and the maximum delay...

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Short Strikes

Oswalt, Michael M - 2020

, while headlines tout how more workers struck in 2018 than at any point in the last three decades, because “short strikes … account for short strikes' existence, employment law may better explain their surge. Public messaging, too, is a key motivator … culture may shape the future of short strikes just as much …

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The German model of industrial relations : (where) does it still exist?

Oberfichtner, Michael; Schnabel, Claus - 2017

Using data from the representative IAB Establishment Panel, this paper charts changes in the two main pillars of the German IR model over the last 20 years. It shows that collective bargaining coverage and worker representation via works councils have substantially fallen outside the public...

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