Union Recognition: Organising and Bargaining Outcomes

by Gall; Gregor

• ISBN13: 9780415343367
• ISBN10: 0415343364
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2005-11-07
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

Several thousand new trade union recognition agreements have been signed since 1997, representing a major development within industrial relations in Britain. This has resulted from the interaction of union organizing efforts and the statutory union recognition provisions of the Employment Relations Act 1999. However for trade unions recognition alone is not enough, a vital issue is whether, having gained union recognition, trade unions are now effectively delivering upon the promises and prospects of union recognition. The essays in Union Recognition examine the substantive outcomes of the new agreements in regard to union representation and collective bargaining. In particular, the impact on terms and conditions of employment, employers' behavior and strategy, the nature of the union-management bargaining relationship, and the building of workplace unionism are explored. While the collection focuses primarily on Britain, the germane issues are also looked at in the context of Australia, Canadaand the US. Conceptually and theoretically, Union Recognition offers contributions which develop our understanding of the relationship between workplace and national unionisms and of mobilization theory.

Table of Contents

List of tables	ix
List of contributors	xi
Abbreviations and acronyms	xiii
Foreword	xvi
1 Introduction: the fruits of labour?	1	(24)
GREGOR GALL
2 Working with dinosaurs? Union effectiveness in Britain	25	(19)
ALEX BRYSON
3 Union organising under certification law in Britain	44	(20)
EDMUND HEERY AND MELANIE SIMMS
4 Organising and diversity in banking and insurance: reflections on the approach of UNIFI	64	(19)
FIONA COLGAN AND CHRIS CREEGAN
5 As a phoenix arisen? Union organisation, Rover cars and the British motor industry	83	(15)
ALAN TUCKMAN AND MICHAEL WHITTALL
6 The nature of collective bargaining achieved through the statutory procedure	98	(17)
SONIA MCKAY, SIAN MOORE AND HANNAH WOOD
7 The National Union of Journalists and the provincial newspaper industry: from derecognition to recognition to fraught bargaining	115	(19)
GREGOR GALL
8 Union recognition in Asian workplaces: springboard to further organising and recognition campaigns?	134	(17)
JANE HOLGATE
9 Two strategies, two divides: employer and union strategies towards non-union employee representation at Eurotunnel and News International	151	(16)
PAUL GOLLAN
10 The transition from organising to representation: a case study	167	(14)
MELANIE SIMMS
11 Does the organising means determine the bargaining ends?	181	(17)
LISA JORDAN AND BOB BRUNO
12 Collective bargaining performance of newly certified unions in Canada: process and outcomes	198	(17)
JOSEPH B. ROSE
13 Recognition, bargaining and unions in Australia	215	(17)
GERARD GRIFFIN
14 Conclusion: issues and prospects	232	(6)
GREGOR GALL
References	238	(17)
Index	255