Shop stewards’ leadership, left-wing activism and collective workplace union organisation

Providing an account of the dynamic interrelationship between shop steward leadership and membership interaction, Ralph Darlington focuses particular attention on the much-neglected crucial role that left-wing political activists can play in shaping the nature of collective workplace relations

Management by agreement. An alternative" to the industrial relations act.

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Strikers since 1947

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Managers and industrial relations The identification of training needs

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The process of consultation: responding to challenge

This paper investigates the fragility of consultation processes when faced with inter-party differences arising inside or outside the consultation arena. Such differences can disrupt cooperation, damage desired trust relations and jeopardise potential mutual benefits. The analysis draws on parallels between consultative and integrative bargaining processes, highlighting inter-party and intra-party dynamics, forcing and fostering strategies and the key role of trust relations. This framework is used to interpret observations from real-time fieldwork in two case study firms. The results underline the importance of understanding consultation as process and within that, the critical role or trust in its different dimensions

Union effects on employee relations in Britain

I estimate the effects of trade unions on employee and employer perceptions of workplace management-employee relations in Britain using linked employer-employee data from the 1998 Workplace Employee Relations Survey. Associations between these relations and unionization vary with institutional arrangements in relation to bargaining and lay representation. There is support for McCarthy's view that union lay representatives can act as a lubricant' assisting with employment relations, but this is apparent from an employer perspective, not an employee perspective. The only union effect common across employers and employees is poorer perceptions of employment relations where union coverage is at the level known to generate a union wage premium. Copyright © 2005 The Tavistock Institute ® SAGE Publications