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John Mcilroy - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Organizing for partnership: the influence of the American Federation of Labor - Congress of Industrial Organisations on the British Trades Union Congress 1995–2005
Labor History, 2013Co-Authors: John McilroyAbstract:The influence of the ‘organizing model’ of trade Unionism developed in America by the American Federation of Labor - Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) on strategies to rebuild British trade Unionism is often remarked. Scholars typically distinguish between adversarial organizing and collaborative partnership with employers as competing roads to Union revitalization. This article demonstrates that the British Trades Union Congress (TUC) borrowed organizing principles, techniques and animating aphorisms from America, but not a model of trade Unionism. The novelty of organizing lay more in its orchestration and recycling of familiar ideas than in its originality. In the hands of conservative leaders, organizing and partnership are not necessarily distinctive approaches. In Britain, as in America, organizing was proposed as a means to achieve partnership, not to prosecute conflict between capital and labour or create more democratic Unions. It proved unsuccessful because of lack of resources, emp...
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ten years of new labour workplace learning social partnership and Union revitalization in britain
British Journal of Industrial Relations, 2008Co-Authors: John McilroyAbstract:The establishment of a role in workplace learning has been perceived as one of the achievements of trade Unions under New Labour. This article analyses the part the Trades Union Congress (TUC) has played in public policy since 1997. It examines its attempts to influence government and develop social partnership and statutory backing for vocational training. It assesses its degree of success and considers whether the TUC's role is best characterized in terms of social partnership or as a rediscovery of the Unions' public administration function. It reviews the literature which suggests that involvement in learning stimulates Union revitalization. The article concludes that the TUC has failed to attain significant influence over public policy. Rather it has delivered policy determined by government with priority accorded to employer predilections. A public administration role focused on the Union Learning Fund has provided the TUC with a new, secondary function, which provides some compensation for the failure of its primary agenda. Nonetheless, on the evidence, involvement in workplace learning appears an implausible path to Union revitalization.
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the new politics of pressure the Trades Union congress and new labour in government
Industrial Relations Journal, 2000Co-Authors: John McilroyAbstract:The TUC’s political role has been in the forefront of its function for most of its history and has revived with the election of new Labour. This article argues that the TUC’s current political approach is unlikely to contribute towards significant Union resurgence in the workplace or politically.
John Tomaney - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Devolution and the Trades Union Congress in North East England and Wales
Regional & Federal Studies, 2006Co-Authors: Andy Pike, Peter O’brien, John TomaneyAbstract:Abstract Trade Unions and their collective federations have begun to participate in the devolution and regionalization of government and governance in the UK. This paper examines whether, how and to what extent distinctive “class logics of collective action” are being reproduced beyond the employment relation and the workplace through organized labour's engagement in devolved development and governance. Drawing upon an empirical analysis of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in North East England and Wales, the argument here is that the extent and nature of trade Union federations' substantive interest definitions and participation in devolved development and governance are shaped by the interrelations between labour movement concerns of economic and social justice and the particular nature, type and interests of their trade Union affiliates, the centralism of the national TUC, and the openness of devolved institutions to economic and social partner engagement. Trade Union federations are building strategy a...
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Trade Unions in Local and Regional Development and Governance: The Northern Trades Union Congress in North East England
Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit, 2004Co-Authors: Andy Pike, Peter O’brien, John TomaneyAbstract:From a position of relative isolation, trade Unions have become increasingly important agents in local and regional development and governance in the UK since the election of the New Labour government in 1997. Analysis of the experience of the Northern Trades Union Congress (NTUC) suggests that devolution and regionalisation are exerting increasing pressures upon trade Union federations to adopt a multi-level approach to organisation across a range of scales—local, sub-regional, regional, sub-national, national and international—to connect with the evolving multi-layered governance structures of the UK political economy. Strategic multi-level organisation suggests the decentralisation of power, authority and resources within the labour movement—challenging the national and centralised legacy of its collective bargaining history—and a division of labour and set of priorities at the different scales to build the links between local and regional engagement and trade Union renewal.
Andy Pike - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Devolution and the Trades Union Congress in North East England and Wales
Regional & Federal Studies, 2006Co-Authors: Andy Pike, Peter O’brien, John TomaneyAbstract:Abstract Trade Unions and their collective federations have begun to participate in the devolution and regionalization of government and governance in the UK. This paper examines whether, how and to what extent distinctive “class logics of collective action” are being reproduced beyond the employment relation and the workplace through organized labour's engagement in devolved development and governance. Drawing upon an empirical analysis of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in North East England and Wales, the argument here is that the extent and nature of trade Union federations' substantive interest definitions and participation in devolved development and governance are shaped by the interrelations between labour movement concerns of economic and social justice and the particular nature, type and interests of their trade Union affiliates, the centralism of the national TUC, and the openness of devolved institutions to economic and social partner engagement. Trade Union federations are building strategy a...
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Trade Unions in Local and Regional Development and Governance: The Northern Trades Union Congress in North East England
Local Economy: The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit, 2004Co-Authors: Andy Pike, Peter O’brien, John TomaneyAbstract:From a position of relative isolation, trade Unions have become increasingly important agents in local and regional development and governance in the UK since the election of the New Labour government in 1997. Analysis of the experience of the Northern Trades Union Congress (NTUC) suggests that devolution and regionalisation are exerting increasing pressures upon trade Union federations to adopt a multi-level approach to organisation across a range of scales—local, sub-regional, regional, sub-national, national and international—to connect with the evolving multi-layered governance structures of the UK political economy. Strategic multi-level organisation suggests the decentralisation of power, authority and resources within the labour movement—challenging the national and centralised legacy of its collective bargaining history—and a division of labour and set of priorities at the different scales to build the links between local and regional engagement and trade Union renewal.
Edmund Heery - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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The TUC’s Organising Academy: an assessment
Industrial Relations Journal, 2000Co-Authors: Edmund Heery, Melanie Simms, Rick Delbridge, John Salmon, Dave SimpsonAbstract:In 1998 the British Trades Union Congress established an Organising Academy to train a new generation of paid Union organisers. This article reviews the first two years of the Academy and offers an initial evaluation. It seeks to gauge whether the initiative has prompted innovation in organision policy in Unions and led to successful organising outcomes.
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The Relaunch of the Trades Union Congress
British Journal of Industrial Relations, 1998Co-Authors: Edmund HeeryAbstract:Despite the institutional bias in British industrial relations research, one of the oldest institutions, the Trades Union Congress (TUC), has been neglected by researchers. This article seeks to rectify this deficiency through an analysis of the formal relaunch of the TUC since 1994 under its new General Secretary, John Monks. It reviews the internal reforms and innovations in policy that comprise the relaunch and identifies two competing visions of the Union future that lie at its centre. In the first of these, the TUC’s role is to act as an authoritative social partner in relations with government and employers, while in the second its function is to promote, co-ordinate and support organizing activity by its member Unions. Each of these perspectives on the TUC’s role is informed by experience overseas in continental Europe in the one case and in Australia and the United States in the other. The article concludes that social partnership and the ‘organizing model’ are not easily reconciled and that, despite the relaunch, the TUC has yet to make a key strategic choice: whether to follow the European or the North American route as it enters the twenty-first century.
Max Munday - One of the best experts on this subject based on the ideXlab platform.
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Japan in Wales: a new IR
Industrial Relations Journal, 1993Co-Authors: Barry Wilkinson, Jonathan C. Morris, Max MundayAbstract:Following a brief consideration of the historical pattern of Japanese company start-up, and Trades Union recognition, this article goes on to analyse the contents of their single Union agreements under the following headings: membership and representation; flexibility; communications; consultation; and continuity of production. The wider implications of the ‘new industrial relations' among Japanese companies in Wales are then examined.