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Thomas Turner - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • irish Trade Unions under social partnership a faustian bargain
    Industrial Relations Journal, 2011
    Co-Authors: Daryl Dart, Thomas Turner
    Abstract:

    Since 1987 Trade Unions have been a key party to social partnership agreements in Ireland. Theoretical and empirical studies of corporatism point to positive outcomes for Trade Unions such as an increase in union density, ease of recognition, and increased employer support. However, apart from a modest increase in union membership numbers, none of these outcomes were realised. Union density levels have decreased significantly, union recognition is more problematic than ever, and employer opposition appears to have increased in scope and intensity. Decline in union density questions the capacity of Unions to remain pivotal actors in the future. During the period of partnership union density in the private sector more than halved. It remains the paradox of partnership.

Bengt Furaker - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • employment protection regulation Trade Unions and tenure of employment an analysis in 23 european countries
    Industrial Relations Journal, 2016
    Co-Authors: Tomas Berglund, Bengt Furaker
    Abstract:

    This article focuses on the relationship between employment protection regulation (EPL), Trade Unions and tenure of employment. A main hypothesis is that EPL strictness tends to prolong tenure, because rigorous rules imply that remaining with the same employer gives more job security. The role of Unions can be expected to be similar. These assumptions are related to issues regarding dualisation in the labour market. Data used are the European Working Conditions Survey 2010 — including 23 countries and more than 18,500 employees — combined with national‐level data on EPL, unemployment, union density and collective bargaining coverage. The analyses reveal that EPL strictness and bargaining coverage are associated with longer tenure. The same goes for having an employee representative in the workplace. The institutional variables work through interactions with individual‐level variables. For example, the impact of age, which is strongly linked to tenure, increases with stricter EPL and higher bargaining coverage.

  • on the road to transnational cooperation results from a survey of european Trade Unions
    European Journal of Industrial Relations, 2013
    Co-Authors: Bengt Furaker, Mattias Bengtsson
    Abstract:

    Economic globalization and political developments within the EU have put pressure upon Trade Unions to engage in cross-border cooperation. The most realistic step in the foreseeable future is transnational coordination of collective bargaining, but the process is still very much in its infancy. We use a web and postal survey of a large number of European Trade Unions to illuminate their current practices and their preferences for the future. The most common activity is exchange of information on collective agreements, followed by collaboration in training programmes for union representatives, and such cross-border cooperation primarily involves Unions in manufacturing. Support for European collective bargaining is far from overwhelming, and Unions are clearly divided on the idea of statutory minimum wages: this has rather strong support in Spain and Germany, but very little in Scandinavia.

Daryl Dart - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • irish Trade Unions under social partnership a faustian bargain
    Industrial Relations Journal, 2011
    Co-Authors: Daryl Dart, Thomas Turner
    Abstract:

    Since 1987 Trade Unions have been a key party to social partnership agreements in Ireland. Theoretical and empirical studies of corporatism point to positive outcomes for Trade Unions such as an increase in union density, ease of recognition, and increased employer support. However, apart from a modest increase in union membership numbers, none of these outcomes were realised. Union density levels have decreased significantly, union recognition is more problematic than ever, and employer opposition appears to have increased in scope and intensity. Decline in union density questions the capacity of Unions to remain pivotal actors in the future. During the period of partnership union density in the private sector more than halved. It remains the paradox of partnership.

Kjeld A Jakobsen - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.

  • rethinking the international confederation of free Trade Unions and its inter american regional organization
    Antipode, 2001
    Co-Authors: Kjeld A Jakobsen
    Abstract:

    In responding to the impact of corporate globalization on the working class, the Trade union movement needs not only to rethink its strategies, but also to review its international organization. This article highlights changes in the labour market such as the increase in unemployment, deregulation, informality, the stronger presence of women, and the issue of child labour. In this context, the article goes on to consider the growing social movements that might form alliances with Trade Unions for social change. The present international confederations of Trade Unions—the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions (ICFTU), the World Confederation of Labor (WCL), and the World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU)—were profoundly engaged in the cold war. Their structure today, particularly that of the ICFTU, is the same as 50 years ago. The ICFTU's structure mirrors the Leninist model of centralized direction practiced by its traditional opponent, the WFTU. Many national confederations resisted this East-West pressure during the Cold War, and chose to stay outside all of the international confederations. Post-Cold War, most have elected to become members of the ICFTU, believing it to be a democratic space for an open political debate, and in the hope of reform. However, expected change has been slow to materialize. This paper explores the way in which changes already made in the Organizacion Regional Interamericana de Trabajadores (ORIT) might shape ongoing discussions in the ICFTU.