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Worker representation
Bryson, Alex; Forth, John - 2022
We define worker representation, identify the factors that determine demand for it among workers and employers, discuss difficulties in supplying worker representation, and reflect on the implications of worker representation for worker welfare and the behavior and performance of employers.
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The Paradox of Federal Sector Labor Relations : Voluntary Unionism Without Collective Bargaining Over Wages and Employee Benefits
Estreicher, Samuel - 2015
Federal sector unionism is a paradox. Despite the outlawry of union-security provisions and strikes, sharp limits on the scope of collective bargaining (outside the U.S. Postal Service and airport air traffic controllers), and the absence of card-check certification, federal employees join...
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Current situation and future trends of the industrial relations system and trade unions in Greece
Nikolopoulos, Andreas; Patra, Eleni - In: Management revue : socio-economic studies 23 (2012) 4, pp. 353-368
The Greek industrial relations system for the past decades, mainly in the private sector, has been based on Law 1876 of 1990, which introduced free collective bargaining and independent dispute resolution. Due to the financial crisis, new legislation modified the existing legal framework and led...
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Workplace employee representation and industrial relations performance : new evidence from the 2013 European company survey
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2017
motivation, and staff retention. The evidence is mixed. From one perspective, the expression of collective voice through works …
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Strikes, employee workplace representation, unionism, and trust : evidence from cross-country data
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2017
This paper investigates the determinants of industrial conflict in companies, using a multi-country workplace inquiry for 2009 and 2013 and various measures of strike activity. The principal goal is to address the effect of formal workplace representation on strikes, distinguishing in the first...
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The twin track model of employee voice : an Anglo-American perspective on union decline and the rise of alternative forms of voice
Bryson, Alex; Freeman, Richard B.; Gómez, Rafael; … - 2017
We present a simple framework for analyzing decline in union voice in the Anglo-American world and its replacement by … non-union, often direct, forms of worker voice. We argue that it is a decline in the in-flow to unionisation among … voice is predicted by transaction cost economics, while the growth in non-union forms of worker voice is aided by declining …
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Ending a Century of Violent Labor Conflict : A New Perspective on Unionization and the National Labor Relations Act
Levi, Margaret; Melo, Tania; Weingast, Barry R.; … - 2015
Open access to labor organizations lagged nearly a century behind open access to business organizations, arising as part of the New Deal in the mid-1930s. During the century previous to the New Deal, firms and governments actively suppressed labor organization, frequently resorting to violence....
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Strikes, Employee Workplace Representation, Unionism, and Industrial Relations Quality in European Establishments
Addison, John T. - 2019
Using cross-country data, this paper investigates the relationship between workplace representation and strikes. Works councils are associated with reduced strike activity. However, where union members make up a majority of works councillors, such union-dominated councils experience greater...
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Workers Without Workplaces and Unions Without Unity : Non-Standard Forms of Employment, Platform Work and Collective Bargaining
Aloisi, Antonio - 2020
Non-standard forms of employment (NSFE) are on the rise in different sectors and various countries all over the world. Concomitantly, technological and organizational change represents a major challenge for collective bargaining systems, given that they are often still predicated on the concept...
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The incidence and outcomes of industrial action: new evidence from the 2019 European company survey
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2022
Using the 2019 ECS, we investigate the relationship between union organization, workplace representation, industrial relations quality and strike incidence. We also consider some six issues behind the most recent instances of industrial action or threatened industrial action and their outcomes....
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