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    Partnership and organizing: an empirical assessment of two contrasting approaches to union revitalization in the UK

    Badigannavar, V. and Kelly, John (2011) Partnership and organizing: an empirical assessment of two contrasting approaches to union revitalization in the UK. Economic and Industrial Democracy 32 (1), pp. 5-27. ISSN 0143-831X.

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    Abstract

    The Trades Union Congress (TUC) in Britain has been advocating two contrasting approaches to union revitalization namely: ‘labour–management partnership’ and ‘union organizing’. Using a case study of a public services union this article examines empirically the prospects of union revival offered by these two contrasting approaches. Public services with relatively high union density should offer better prospects for union revival through partnership. However, the authors’ findings indicate that even in public services, partnership was not associated with management’s support for union recruitment, better facility time provisions for union representatives, lower worker grievances or union membership gains. Rank-and-file organizing, on the other hand, was associated with lower worker grievances, greater worker satisfaction with the union, higher worker involvement in union activities and union membership gains. Overall, the findings question the ‘mutual gains’ assertions of partnership advocates and lend support to the critics of partnership who propose an alternative organizing approach to union revitalization.

    Metadata

    Item Type: Article
    Keyword(s) / Subject(s): industrial relations, labour—management cooperation, partnership, union organizing
    School: Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Business and Law > Birkbeck Business School
    Research Centres and Institutes: Birkbeck Centre for British Political Life
    Depositing User: Administrator
    Date Deposited: 26 Jan 2011 10:09
    Last Modified: 02 Aug 2023 16:51
    URI: https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/2041

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