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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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Unions, collective bargaining and firm performance
Laroche, Patrice - 2020
The impact of unions on firm performance has been the subject of debate and controversy in most industrialized countries, particularly in the United States and the United Kingdom. The purpose of this chapter is to review and assess the scope and limitations of the economic analysis of unions as...
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Strikes, employee workplace representation, unionism, and trust : evidence from cross-country data
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2017
for 2009 and 2013 and various measures of strike activity. The principal goal is to address the effect of formal workplace … reduced strike activity. However, any such effect is sensitive in particular to the union status of work councilors and time …. There is also some indication that collective bargaining at levels higher than the company can exacerbate strike activity …
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Strikes, employee workplace representation, unionism, and industrial relations quality in European establishments
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2018
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 …. Dissonance between the parties as to the state of industrial relations is associated with elevated strike activity. Finally …
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The future of the French trade unions
Andolfatto, Dominique; Labbé, Dominique - In: Management revue : socio-economic studies 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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Workplace employee representation and industrial relations performance : new evidence from the 2013 European company survey
Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2017
representation and five behavioral outcomes: strike incidence, the climate of industrial relations, sickness/absenteeism, employee …
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Strikes, Employee Workplace Representation, Unionism, and Industrial Relations Quality in European Establishments
Addison, John T. - 2019
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 …. Dissonance between the parties as to the state of industrial relations is associated with elevated strike activity. Finally …
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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
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. Strike incidence is found to be elevated in establishments where … relationships are associated with increased strike incidence, and the converse for an employee-focused business strategy and …
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Spillover effects of unionisation on non-members' well-being
Haile, Getinet Astatike; Bryson, Alex; White, Michael - 2014
The paper investigates whether unionisation has a spillover effect on wellbeing by comparing non-members in union and non-union workplaces. To this end, it adapts the social custom model of trade unions and goes on to conduct empirical analyses using linked employer-employee data and alternative...
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Who do unions target? : unionization over the life-cycle of US businesses
Dinlersoz, Emin Murat; Greenwood, Jeremy; Hyatt, Henry R. - 2014
What type of businesses do unions target for organizing? A dynamic model of the union organizing process is constructed to answer this question. A union monitors establishments in an industry to learn about their productivity and decides which ones to organize and when. An establishment becomes...
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