Union Exclusion and the Decollectivization of Industrial Relations in Contemporary Britain
作者:
Paul Smith,
Gary Morton,
期刊:
British Journal of Industrial Relations
(WILEY Available online 1993)
卷期:
Volume 31,
issue 1
页码: 97-114
ISSN:0007-1080
年代: 1993
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8543.1993.tb00382.x
出版商: Blackwell Publishing Ltd
数据来源: WILEY
摘要:
AbstractA major focus of the Conservative government's employment policy since 1979 has been the reduction of union power within the labour market, the employment relationship and as representatives of a separate ‘labour interest’ in society ' union exclusion. The principal impact of the legislative changes is to deny workers access to resources of collective power, thereby commensurately increasing employers' discretion to determine the terms of the employment relationship. When forming new subsidiaries and establishments, or purchasing non‐union subsidiaries, employers have been able to resist unionization and recognition except on their own terms, but comparatively few have terminated existing union recognition agreements, preferring to marginalize the role of unions through the adoption of partial exclusion policies ' joint consultation, direct communication, performance‐related pay, and the fragmentation of common employment and bar
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