Union Recognition: Organising and Bargaining Outcomes (Routledge Research in Employment Relations)

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. These essays examine the substantive outcomes of these new agreements in regard to union representation and collective bargaining. In particular, they explore: the impact on terms and conditions of employment employers’ behaviour and strategy the nature of the union-management bargaining relationship the building of workplace unionism. While the collection focuses primarily on Britain, the germane issues are also looked at in the context of Australia, Canada and the U.S.A. Conceptually and theoretically, Union Recognition offers contributions which develop our understanding of the relationship between workplace and national unionisms and of mobilization theory. Introduction -- Working With Dinosaurs? Union Effectiveness In Britain / Alex Bryson -- Union Organising Under Certification Law In Britain / Edmund Heery And Melanie Simms -- Organising And Diversity In Banking And Insurance: Reflections On The Approach Of Unifi / Fiona Colgan And Chris Creegan -- As A Phoenix Arisen? Union Organization, Rover Cars And The British Motor Industry / Alan Tuckman And Michael Whittall -- Nature Of Collective Bargaining Achieved Through The Statutory Procedure / Sonia Mckay, Sian Moore And Hannah Wood -- National Union Of Journalists And The Provincial Newspaper Industry: From Derecognition To Recognition To Fraught Bargaining / Gregor Gall -- Union Recognition In Asian Workplaces: Springboard To Further Organizing And Recognition Campaigns? / Jane Holgate -- Two Strategies, Two Divides: Employer And Union Strategies Towards Non-union Employee Representation At Eurotunnel And News International / Paul Gollan -- Transition From Organising To Representation: A Case Study / Melanie Simms -- Does The Organising Means Determine The Bargaining Ends? / Lisa Jordan And Bob Bruno -- Collective Bargaining Performance Of Newly Certified Union In Canada: Process And Outcome / Joseph B. Rose -- Recognition, Bargaining And Unions In Australia / Gerard Griffin -- Conclusion Edited By Gregor Gall. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 238-254) And Index. "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 organising efforts and the statutory union recognition provisions of the Employment Relations Act 1999. However, for trade unions recognition alone is not enough, for 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 these new agreements in regard to union representation and collective bargaining. In particular, the impact on terms and conditions of employment, employers' behaviour 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, Canada and the USA. Conceptually and theoretically, Union Recognition offers contributions which develop our understanding of the relationship between workplace and national unionisms and of mobilisation theory."--Résumé de l'éditeur Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 6 Copyright......Page 7 Contents......Page 8 Tables......Page 10 Contributors......Page 12 Abbreviations and acronyms......Page 14 Foreword......Page 17 1 Introduction......Page 20 2 Working with dinosaurs?......Page 44 3 Union organising under certification law in Britain......Page 63 4 Organising and diversity in banking and insurance......Page 83 5 As a phoenix arisen?......Page 102 6 The nature of collective bargaining achieved through the statutory procedure......Page 117 7 The National Union of Journalists and the provincial newspaper industry......Page 134 8 Union recognition in Asian workplaces......Page 153 9 Two strategies, two divides......Page 170 10 The transition from organising to representation......Page 186 11 Does the organising means determine the bargaining ends?......Page 200 12 Collective bargaining performance of newly certified unions in Canada......Page 217 13 Recognition, bargaining and unions in Australia......Page 234 14 Conclusion......Page 251 References......Page 257 Index......Page 274