Introduction: UNISON and public service trade unionism

2012 ◽  
pp. 15-26
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Service Trade ◽  
Trade Unionism

EMU and public service trade unionism: between states and markets

2003 ◽  
Vol 9 (4) ◽  
pp. 702-721 ◽  
Author(s):  
Deborah Foster ◽  
Peter Scott
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
National Level ◽  
Welfare States ◽  
Democratic Legitimacy ◽  
Service Trade ◽  
Single Currency ◽  
Trade Unionism ◽  
Social Coordination ◽  
The Impact

This article considers the attitudes to the single currency of public service trade unions, illustrating this through a number of nationally based case studies. We examine claims about the impact of EMU on welfare states and public expenditure, and particularly the extent to which the governance of EMU attests a ‘neoliberal', marketising approach towards the public sphere. We find that any such tendency has been offset by the recent resurgence of forms of national-level bipartite or tripartite economic and social coordination, managing the effects of EMU through social dialogue. The subsequent section of the paper develops a categorisation of four main trends evident in European public service trade unions'response to the single currency: enthusiasm, altruism, scepticism and resistance. The dominant attitude to date has been acceptance. We highlight dangers for democratic legitimacy within public sector unions in cases where leadership support for EMU has exceeded that of the membership, and indicate some potential areas for future public service union influence in the EMU.

Reinventing the Wheel? Privatisation and the Crisis of Public Service Trade Unionism

1994 ◽  
Vol 17 (7/8/9) ◽  
pp. 114-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Debbie Foster ◽  
Graham Taylor
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Service Trade ◽  
Trade Unionism

New SAA deal could taint Pretoria's reform agenda

2020 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
State Aid ◽  
Service Trade ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Reform Agenda ◽  
Reform Plan ◽  
Wage Agreement ◽  
State Expenditure ◽  
Growth Prospects

Significance It also raises questions about President Cyril Ramaphosa’s reform plan for state-owned enterprises (SOEs), crucial to growth prospects and the restoration of public finances, as well as market confidence. Impacts More state expenditure on SAA could harden the resolve of public-service trade unions in challenging Pretoria over a wage agreement dispute. Mboweni's credibility will take a hit if the restructuring plan is carried through with more state aid. A newly announced government council on reforming SOEs will paradoxically raise fears of further delays to overhauling them.

scholarly journals Western Samoa Trade Unionism: the 1981 Public Service Strike

1970 ◽  
Vol 17 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Rick Snell
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
South Pacific ◽  
Value System ◽  
Trade Unionism ◽  
Western Samoa ◽  
Western Values ◽  
Political Value ◽  
The Waves

I have used a proposition developed in Kerry Howe's seminal work Where the Waves Fall (1984) to offer an explanatory framework for understanding industrial relations in the South Pacific. The paper concentrates on applying this analysis to a key moment in Western Samoan industrial relations, the 1981 public service strike. The key concept used in this analysis is mutual adjustment. The concept refers to an interactive process between foreign institutions, such as trade unions, and pre-existing institutions and values like fa' a Samoa (the cultural and political value system of Western Samoa). While the 1981 strike, and South Pacific industrial relations in general, can be interpreted from a nwnber of pespectives rhe approach used in this paper may offer a method that does not obscure the full interplay between Western values and institutions and local forces.

The end of revisionism?

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chris Pierson
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Middle Class ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Social Democracy ◽  
The Other ◽  
Labour Movement ◽  
The Public ◽  
Trade Unionism

This chapter argues that the starkest of the institutional problems facing social democracy now is a growing inability to win elections. Added to this was the challenge of a long-term decline in the industrial wing of social democracy. Historically, social democracy has been the politics of the labour movement, and a key component of this movement has always been trade unions and their members. While that relationship was not always as close as it was in the British or Swedish cases, trade unionism was almost always the ‘other half’ of social democracy. However, the 1980s were a time of loss for this ‘other side’ of social democracy. Trade unions were becoming increasingly feminised, more focused in the public sector and drawing in increasing numbers of middle-class public service members.

Militant Public Service Trade Unionism in a New State: The Case of Ceylon

1966 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 397-412
Author(s):  
Robert N. Kearney
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Political Activity ◽  
Industrial Workers ◽  
Government Employees ◽  
Public Servants ◽  
Trade Unionism ◽  
British Rule ◽  
New States ◽  
The Right

Rapid growth in the size and militancy of trade union movements has been a common development in the newly independent states of Asia since the end of colonial rule less than two decades ago. In these states, and in the more recently independent African states as well, government employees frequently constitute one of the principal groups of organized workers. Public servants' right of association and right to strike or demonstrate have been among the insistent questions confronting the governments of the new states.In the areas of Asia formerly under British rule, public servants enjoy the right to form trade unions with some restrictions and, except in Pakistan, trade unionism in the public service has expanded considerably. In India, government employees other than industrial workers are allowed to organize subject to restrictions limiting membership or leadership in their trade unions to public servants and prohibiting political activity by the unions.

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