Community and union-led living wage campaigns

Trade unions in Britain, as elsewhere, have faced a sustained challenge to their role and there has been extensive debate, analysis (and practical action) over the most appropriate way for the union movement to respond to these challenges (Kelly, 1998; Heery, Kelly and Waddington, 2003). At the forefront of this debate has been the notion of social movement unionism whereby unions engage with other community groups in pursuit of broader societal issues, not just workplace ones (Fairbrother and Webster 2008; Parker 2011). A unionstrategy of broader community engagement can be contrasted with more traditional forms of union activities, most particularly the pursuit of improved pay and conditions for members through industrial campaigns. Community engagement envisaged in social movement unionism and industrial campaigning are not mutually exclusive and both can take many forms

Low pay and the living wage

Editorial Introducing Special Issue of Employee Relation

The DNA of negotiations as a set theoretic concept: a theoretical and empirical analysis

This study examines the factors and the processes that contribute to a satisfying outcome for negotiations. Based on a set-theoretic framework, the authors investigated managers from various countries in terms of their approach to negotiation. The fuzzy set Qualitative Comparative Analysis (fsQCA) uses detailed data on preparation, information exchange, persuasion, creativity in problem solving and overcoming deadlocks, break-up behavior, as well as how to achieve a satisfying outcome, to test the joint sets of successful outcomes. The implications of these results are relevant for practitioners and future research and highlight necessary and sufficient conditions for a successful negotiation outcome