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Chapter Twelve: Union-management Relations

Industrial relations and union-management strategies

q       European Industrial Relations Observatory Online www.eiro.eurofound.ie/  – for information on economic, political and collective bargaining developments in the EU.

q       For information on industrial relations in North America, go to the website at Cornell University www.workindex.com/ and click on ‘Labour relations’.

q       For information on how union–management strategies in Britain have changed over the past two decades, go to the WERS98 website. www.dti.gov.uk/er/emar/1998WERS.htm

 

Partnership agreements

For information on how many work organizations have negotiated ‘partnership’ agreements in the UK visit:

q       Involvement and Participation Association www.ipa-involve.com

q       ACAS (UK) www.acas.org.uk

q       Information on the TUC’s position on workplace partnership www.tuc.org.uk

 

Union presence in the workplace – for further information on union presence in the workplace in different countries, go to the International Labour Organization website. www.ilo.org

 

The union renaissance report and the latest figures for union recognition agreements – go to the Trade Union Council website at www.tuc.org.uk  and follow the headings to ‘Organization and recruitment’.

 

WERS 98 survey First Findings www.dti.gov.uk/er/emar/1998wers.htm

Collective labour law relating to unions and union–management relations

q       Full text of UK Acts of Parliament www.hmso.gov.uk/acts.htm

q       Information on Canadian laws www.law-lib.utoronto.ca/

q       Laborlink (USA) www.laborlink.org

q       US Department of Labor www.dol.gov/elaws/aud_gen_emp.asp 

 

Practising HRM: Searching the web – union strategies

What are some of the major issues affecting workers around the world? What identifiable strategies have the unions developed, and how do they compare with the union approaches discussed in this chapter?

q       Trade Union Council (UK) www.tuc.org.uk

q       International Labour Organization www.ilo.org