Collective Bargaining and Union Membership Effects on the Wages of Male Youths

1986 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-211 ◽  
Author(s):  
Arthur E. Blakemore ◽  
Janet C. Hunt ◽  
B. F. Kiker
Keyword(s):  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Union Membership

scholarly journals Demobilised or dormant? Exploring pro-strike attitudes among employees who have never joined a strike

2020 ◽  
pp. 0143831X2098005
Author(s):  
Lorenzo Frangi ◽  
Muhammad Umar Boodoo ◽  
Robert Hebdon
Keyword(s):  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Union Membership ◽  
Economic Conditions ◽  
Experience Goods ◽  
Political Values ◽  
Financial Situation ◽  
General Decline ◽  
Potential Impact ◽  
Over Time

The general decline of strikes does not necessarily imply that workers are demobilised. A dormant strike potential can be present. Drawing on strikes as ‘experience goods’, this article sheds light on this point by studying pro-strike attitudes among employees in 24 countries who have never been on strike. The variation in pro-strike attitudes is explained by both contextual (collective bargaining coverage, economic conditions and freedom of rights and liberties) and individual (union membership and confidence in unions, political values and household financial situation) factors. Deeper analyses of three countries highlight the potential impact of specific repertoires of contention developed over time on the formation of pro-strike attitudes. Implications for the labour conflict literature and union strategies are discussed.

scholarly journals The Impact of the Employment Relations Act 2000 on Collective Bargaining

1970 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brett Lineham ◽  
Louise Fawthorpe ◽  
Boaz Shulruf ◽  
Stephen Blumenfeld ◽  
Roopali Johri
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Administrative Data ◽  
Union Membership ◽  
Qualitative Data ◽  
Low Density ◽  
Employment Relations ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Impact

This study carried out by the Department of Labour in 2007/08 aims to assess whether there have been any significant changes in the coverage of collective bargaining that can be attributed to the Employment Relations Act 2000. The research draws on administrative data relating to union membership and collective bargaining coverage, as well as qualitative data from employers, employees, union representatives and other employment relations stakeholders. The research shows that collective bargaining has yet to regain pre Employment Relations Act levels. Collective bargaining remains concentrated in the public sector, with low density in the private sector. The study concludes that the effects of the Act on collective bargaining are chiefly observed in the recovery of collective bargaining in the public sector, and the continued decline (in general) in the private sector. The research offers no indications that these patterns will change.  

Chile's labour reform will pass this year

2015 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Union Membership ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Constitutional Reform ◽  
Small Companies ◽  
Current Form ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Broad Agreement

Subject The pending labour reform bill. Significance Complying with an important election promise, President Michelle Bachelet has presented a bill to Congress to strengthen trade unions and encourage more widespread collective bargaining in the private sector. Given the governing coalition's majority in Congress and broad agreement among its parties on the bill's terms, it is expected to become law largely in its current form, probably by mid-year. Impacts Small companies, where unionisation is now uncommon, are particularly concerned about the reform's implications. A key disincentive for union membership -- non-members' access to the benefits it obtains -- would disappear with the reform. Trade unions are urging authorisation of sector-wide collective bargaining but this would require constitutional reform.

Union membership, collective bargaining coverage and the trade union mark-up for Britain

1991 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
D.H. Blackaby ◽  
P.D. Murphy ◽  
P.J. Sloane
Keyword(s):  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Trade Union ◽  
Union Membership

Sweden: At the Turning Point?

1994 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 14-27 ◽  
Author(s):  
Olle Hammarstrom ◽  
Rianne Mahon
Keyword(s):  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Union Membership ◽  
Turning Point ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
White Collar ◽  
Pay Equity ◽  
Bargaining Process ◽  
Social Democratic ◽  
The Past ◽  
Enterprise Level

The Swedish industrial relations system has undergone significant changes in the past decade, as employers have vigorously pursued a strategy to decentralise the collective bargaining process. Issues of co-worker agreements and pay equity dominated the 1993 bargaining round, with employers seeking to limit the unions' role to the enterprise level. Union membership levels, however, have remained high and there has been greater cooperation between blue and white collar union groups. The return of a Social Democratic led Government may see greater support for national agreements and representative forms of participation.

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