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Who can you trust? The Swedish Confederation for Professional Employees (TCO) and trust-based working time 1950-1970
Ottosson, Mikael; Rosengren, Calle - In: management revue. Socio-economic Studies 26 (2015) 1, pp. 52-68
trust-based elements were important in their professional identity. They were people that you could trust! …This article aims to provide a historical perspective to the emergence of trust-based control systems in the workplace … article that the phenomenon has much longer historical roots. Based on a theoretical discussion of the concept of "trust", the …
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The NLRB as an Überagency for the Evolving Workplace
Green, Michael Z. - 2016
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Danbury Hatters in Sweden : A U.S. Perspective on the Available Remedies and Sanctions for Employers Who Suffer Unfair Labor Practices by Labor Unions
Rosado Marzán, César F.; Nikitas, Margot - 2014
The European Court of Justice Laval quartet of cases held that worker collective actions that impacted freedom of services and establishment in the EU violated EU law. After Laval, The Swedish Labour Court imposed “exemplary,” or punitive damages, on labour unions for violating EU law. This...
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The Relative Bargaining Power of Employers and Unions in the Global Information Age : A Comparative Analysis of the United States and Japan
Dau-Schmidt, Kenneth Glenn; Ellis, Benjamin - 2015
In this paper, we examine and compare the impact of American and Japanese labor law on the relative bargaining power of the labor and management within the context of the new global economy based on information technology. We begin by providing a simple economic definition of bargaining power...
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Industrial Relations in China : Ball of Confusion
McDermott, E. Patrick - 2010
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Industrial Relations in Multinational Companies (MNCs) : Double Breasting and Trade Union Avoidance in Ireland
Gunnigle, Patrick - 2009
This working paper addresses the incidence of double breasting as a means of trade union avoidance in multinational companies. Double breasting is a phenomenon whereby multi-establishment firms concurrently operate union and non-union facilities. Drawing on survey findings from the largest and...
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Systems of Employee Representation : The US Report
Lobel, Orly - 2014
Although employee-representation systems coexist with a collective-bargaining framework in continental Europe for many years, US labor advocates have looked upon those representations systems with suspicion. The reasons for this suspicion are historical: US employee-representation systems have...
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Employee Participation in the New Millennium : Redefining a Labor Organization under Section 8(a)(2) of the NLRA
LeRoy, Michael H. - 2007
The 104th and 105th Congress considered an amendment, called the TEAM Act, to relax the National Labor Relations Act's restrictions on employee participation in nonunion work groups. Although these bills generated controversy, neither version proposed a substantial change in policy. The greatest...
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Two Representatives but No Representation - An Analysis of Two Cases from Estonia
Kallaste, Epp; Jaakson, Krista; Eamets, Raul - 2007
The authors analyse why the institution of non-unionised employees' representatives (NER) is created if its functions overlap with those of the unions, including collective bargaining and information-consultation. We aim to find how NERs are created and what their role in comparison to unionised...
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The Political Consequences of Labor Law Regimes : the Contractualist and Corporatist Models Compared
Lothian, Tamara - 2011
This piece develops, in the form of a discussion of alternative labor-law regimes, a thesis about the importance of enlarging the existing repertory of institutional arrangements for the organization of different areas of social life. Law and legal analysis form the terrain on which such...
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