Union Employees in UK Law
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Why Do Non–union Employees Want to Unionize? Evidence from Britain
This paper assesses the determinants of the level of support for union membership among non–union employees. Using data from a representative sample of non–union employees in Great Britain, the res...
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Evaluating the prevalence of employees without written terms of employment in the European Union
Purpose: Until now, there has been scant evidence on the proportion and characteristics of employees working without a written contract or terms of employment. To begin to fill this gap, the purpos...
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‘Shopping for Voice’: Do Pre‐Existing Non‐Union Representation Plans Matter When Employees Unionize?
The transition to unionization in three workplaces with pre‐existing non‐union employee representation plans (NERPs) is contrasted to three matched sites, which had only individual representation. ...
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Union Effects on Earnings Dispersion in Australia, 1986–1994
In Australia a large decline in union density has occurred since the mid‐1970s. This paper examines the effect of the decline in union density on the dispersion of earnings in Australia between 198...... ... Changes in union density are found to have increased earnings dispersion for male employees over this period, but do not appear to have had a strong effect on earnings dispersion for female employees. The main cause of ... ...
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Did partnership in Ireland deliver for all workers? Unions and earnings
Purpose: After 20 years of social partnership in Ireland the purpose of this paper is to use a national survey of firms and employees to examine the extent of the wage gap between union and non-uni...... ... purpose of this paper is to use a nationalsurvey of firms and employees to examine the extent of the wage gap between union and non-unionworkers ... ...
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Why Are Some Union Organizing Campaigns More Successful Than Others?
This paper reports a study of two union organizing campaigns in the higher education sector. Using mobilization theory, we tried to explore why one campaign was more successful than the other as me...... ... was perceived as mor e effective in voicing wor kers’ concerns, gener ated greater social cohesion and union identification amongst employees , was more successful in convincing employees that the univer sity management was to blame for their problems and promoted amongst emplo yees a ... ...
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Negotiating ‘Difference’: Representing Disabled Employees in the British Workplace
Drawing on qualitative interviews with disabled employees, union officers and disability‐related organizations, this article examines employee attempts to negotiate workplace adjustments and associ...... ... in the British Workplace bjir_748560..582 Deborah Foster and Patricia Fosh Abstract Drawing on qualitative interviews with disabled employees, union officers and disability-related organizations, this article examines employee attempts to negotiate workplace adjustments and associated issues of ... ...
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Performance‐related pay and trade union membership
Discusses how an earlier article in this journal (Vol. 19 No. 3) examined the extent to which the spread of individual performance‐related pay (IPRP) and was associated with trade union derecogniti...... ... First, they might succeed in generating a new level oforganizational commitment, such that employees come to identify more closelywith management than they do with trade unions. Second, to the extent thatnew techniques successfully address the needs ... ...
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Benefits of providing Weingarten rights for nonunion employees
Purpose: Unionized employees have the legal right to bring a union representative with them into an investigatory interview if they request it (“Weingarten rights”). This study aims to demonstrate ...... ... at theDepartment of Business,SUNY Oswego, Oswego,New York, USA.AbstractPurpose –Unionized employees have the legal right to bring a union representative with them into aninvestigatory interview if they request it (“Weingarten rights”). This study aims to demonstrate thatemployers ... ...
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