New social risk groups, industrial relations regimes and union membership

Union Strategy, Membership Orientation & Union Effectiveness: an Exploratory Analysis School of Industrial Relations and Organisational Behaviour

Union Complaints in Industrial Relations Negotia - tions

This paper details the design features of a potentially highly confrontational sequence of activities which is found in formal, industrial relations negotiations: a union complaint followed by a management defence. It is observed that the complaint is accomplished implicitly and that that implicitness is a joint accomplishment of all the participants; they collaborate to ensure that the talk co...

The Effects of Union Membership Status and Union-Management Climate

Trade union membership in Europe

Trade Union Membership and Influence 1999 - 2009

This paper analyses the continued decline of trade unions in Britain and examines the possible implications for workers, employers, and unions themselves. Membership of trade unions declined precipitously in the 1980s and 1990s. The rate of decline has slowed in the most recent decade, but we find that unions remain vulnerable to further erosion of their membership and influence. Acknowledgemen...