scholarly journals Does labour matter in reforms? Indications from Ghana’s environmental sanitation policy

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-73
Author(s):  
Angela D. Akorsu ◽  
Akua O. Britwum ◽  
Owusu Boampong
Keyword(s):  
Working Conditions ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Environmental Sanitation ◽  
The Public ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
Failure State ◽  
Employment Rights ◽  
Recent Policy ◽  
Credible Source

Recent policy debates point to public service privatisation as a solution to the problems of state indebtedness, non-performance, and inefciency of the public sector. This privatisation agenda has raised concerns about the implications for jobs and working conditions. In developing countries like Ghana, where markets are weak or exhibit signs of failure, state policy becomes a vital avenue for securing decent working conditions for workers. Using an appraisal of Ghana’s Environmental Sanitation Policy and through the lens of institutional theory, the paper argues that the extent to which employment rights are framed, even at the policy stage, signals how labour rights will be impacted within privatised employment spaces. The analysis shows that the environmental sanitation policy ignores the interests of labour. The paper, therefore, recommends the need for inputs of labour market institutions such as trade unions at the policy stage. This is because trade unions remain the most credible source of response to the unrestrained exploitative tendencies of capital at the expense of labour.

A STUDY ON THE IMPORTANCE OF TRADE UNIONS IN ORGANIZATION

2014 ◽  
Vol 1 (1) ◽  
pp. 17-46
Author(s):  
Selvaraju Arun Prasath
Keyword(s):  
Sample Size ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Trade Union ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Service Management ◽  
Union Member ◽  
Secondary Data ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
The Public

This research is going to cover the trade union activity and their importance to the employees and the organization itself at the public service management division. Trade unions are association of employees designed primarily to maintain or improve the condition of employment of its members. Trade unions are important in organization because they make sure the employee is satisfied with the working conditions and any violated from their rights and that they have a fair rate of pay of their services rendered to the organization. This project looks at the importance of a trade union in an organization and how the employees feel about their activities and how the management operate with the trade union in the organization and the advantages and the disadvantages of a trade union in terms of what the employees benefit from being a trade union member in the organization. The sample size that was used was 30 at the public service management division. The research will help me to gain slight on how trade unions operate in the organization. I used the questionnaire to gather data from the employees and the method that was used to collect information was the primary data and the secondary data. which helped to get the answers to my objectives.

scholarly journals Unionizing the Police Service: The Case of Botswana Police Service

2013 ◽  
Vol 3 (4) ◽  
pp. 63
Author(s):  
Baakile Motshegwa
Keyword(s):  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Southern Africa ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
International Experience ◽  
Police Service ◽  
Labour Relations ◽  
The Public ◽  
Police Services

Police labour relations in Botswana have been on the spotlight in recent years in Botswana. Whilst government in their Labour Policies appreciates the need for collective arrangements by employees to bargain for their conditions of service, the same favour has not been extended to the Police. It is always an issue for investigation why the Police find themselves managed by their own special Acts that explicitly prohibit them from organizing themselves for collective bargaining. This paper analyses unionization with regards to the Botswana Police Service. Whereas unionization is internationally recognized, the Police in Botswana find themselves prohibited from such action. The Trade Unions and Employers’ Organisations Act, the Public Service Act and the Police Act are analysed in order to find harmony amongst these pieces of legislation. It also draws lessons from other Police Services in Southern Africa to get an international experience. 

Government, Management and Unions: the Public Service Under the Workplace Relations Act

1999 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 446-467 ◽  
Author(s):  
John O'Brien ◽  
Michael O'Donnell
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Public Sector Union ◽  
Industrial Environment ◽  
The Public ◽  
Sector Union ◽  
Workplace Relations ◽  
Government Management

The paper argues that when governments seek to regulate the working conditions and wages of their own employees in n decentralising industrial environment there is potential for tension between the roles of government as employer ; as policy generator and as financial controller. The paper discusses the federal coalition govern ment's agenda in the Australian Public Service under tbe Workplace Relations Act 1996, and the potential for tensions to arise from a process that simultaneously insists on oversight from the centre and requires the exercise of greater responsibility by agency managements. Moreover; the paper examines the ability of the Community and Public Sector Union to retain its legitimacy at a workplace level in this contradictory environ ment, and its capacity to counter managerial attempts to marginalise the union during the first round of agreement making.

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.

Swedish television as a mechanism for language planning and policy

2010 ◽  
Vol 34 (2) ◽  
pp. 158-181 ◽  
Author(s):  
Francis M. Hult
Keyword(s):  
Public Service ◽  
Language Planning ◽  
National Minority ◽  
Minority Languages ◽  
Policy Documents ◽  
Television Programming ◽  
The Public ◽  
Language Planning And Policy ◽  
Public Service Broadcasting ◽  
Recent Policy

The function of the public service broadcasting company Sveriges Television (Swedish Television) as a component of the Swedish ecology of language planning and policy is examined. Analysis of recent policy documents as well as data about television programming illuminates how television serves as a language planning mechanism. It is shown that television is explicitly framed as a tool for status planning through regulations about the relative positions of different languages in this domain. The management of content in Swedish, national minority languages, and other languages, in turn, suggests that Sveriges Television is also implicitly engaged in discourse planning that (re)produces the current linguistic hierarchy in Sweden through the representation of multilingualism.

EUROPEAN AUTONOMOUS EMPLOYEE DEFINITION. A REASON FOR A DISCUSSION OVER DEVELOPMENT OF EMPLOYMENT RIGHTS

2021 ◽  
Vol specjalny (XXI) ◽  
pp. 129-137
Author(s):  
Joanna Unterschütz
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Employment Law ◽  
Paid Work ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Labour Law ◽  
Definition Of ◽  
Employment Rights ◽  
The Eu

For many years, there has been a discussion in the study of Polish labour law on the legitimacy of replacing labour law with employment law as a broader category, including also people who perform paid work on other grounds. The implementation of Directive 2019/1152 on transparent and predictable working conditions in the European Union should also cover a wider group of people performing paid work. The EU legislator, when defining the subjective scope, refers to the autonomous EU definition of an employee created by the CJEU, which is broader than many national definitions. Despite the objections raised against the concept of employment law, the implementation of the directive may be a step towards building a new field of law, just as the extension of the subjective scope of the Act on Trade Unions contributed to the creation of collective employment law.

scholarly journals Commentaries: The State of the Unions

1970 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Herbert Roth
Keyword(s):  
New Zealand ◽  
Social Contract ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
The State ◽  
The Public ◽  
Dramatic Form

"Man was born free, yet everywhere lives in chains" - this is the well-known opening sentence of Rousseau's Social contract. Trade unions in New Zealand present us with a similar paradox, though unfortunately I lack Rousseau's ability to express this in a dramatic form suitable for dictionaries of quotations. The paradox is that trade unions are among the most unpopular institutions in New Zealand, yet the number of unionists keeps increasing. This is by no means due entirely to compulsion : voluntary unions, such as the Public Service Association, have grown at a faster rate than unions where membershlp is compulsory, and new unions have been formed voluntarily by people in previously unorganised occupations, such as production supervisors, technicians and professional engineers. There was even a union of sauna and massage employees in the late 1970s but it collapsed, perhaps because the members did not wish to be covered by awards and preferred the bare minimutn.

scholarly journals Irreconcilable Differences? Tourette Syndrome, Disability, and Definition in Democratic Policy Debates

2009 ◽  
Vol 29 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Sara Newman
Keyword(s):  
Public Schools ◽  
Tourette Syndrome ◽  
Public School System ◽  
Policy Debate ◽  
Explicit Model ◽  
Deliberative Process ◽  
The Public ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
Disability Law ◽  
Recent Policy

This paper examines a recent policy debate by means of a particular rhetorical approach. That approach, based on the strategic use of word definitions and repetition, is applied to the deliberative process underlying attempts to provide appropriate special education accommodations for students with Tourette Syndrome (TS) in the U.S. public school system. Thus, this paper’s goals are threefold: to present and apply an explicit model for arguing and advocating with definitions; to examine how an advocacy organization has participated in civic deliberations about disability law in the public schools; and to offer this approach as a model for future advocacy work.

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