Legislation and the british trade unions

Dinosaurs in Cyberspace? British Trade Unions and the Internet

Legislation , mediation and unions :

This paper examines the effectiveness of recent New Zealand legislation in addressing issues of workplace disputes, with a particular focus on the role of unions. One of the most crucial aspects of the Employment Relations Act, introduced by the new Labour government in 2000, was its provision for mediation services to employers and employees. This initiative was explicitly intended to provide ...

: Trade Unions and the State

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Trade unions and development

Trade unions’ objectives and inflation

Important results recently achieved in games between trade unions and central banks rest on the assumption that workers’ organisations are interested, besides real wages and employment, in inflation per se. This hypothesis is crucial because: (i) the results are not robust to its removal; (ii) the justifications provided to support it are not without problems. The paper raises the issue, critic...