Provincial government pay equity policies require the negotiation of pay equity in unionized workplaces. The methodology is complex and unions have to be knowledgeable and committed to rectifying discriminatory wages. According to the literature, Canadian unions have shown varied levels of effectiveness regarding their pursuit of women’s equality, and this article explores how well these unions...

This two country comparative study examines the effects of globalisation on the room for maneuvre and channels of influence for Austrian and German trade union movements on labour market policy in these countries since the early 1990s. The case selection is informed by the common assessment of these two countries as strongly neocorporatist and " medium " neocorporatist respectively. If the role...

This publication has been produced with the assistance of the European Union. The contents of this publication are the sole responsibility of ECRAN and can in no way be taken to reflect the views of the European Union. Since the mid-2000s, there has been a continuous increase in the number of labour conflicts in China. The 2010 waves of labour unrest are unprecedented, with more than 100 strike...

This paper shows that a small open economy, which suffers from involuntary unemployment, should levy a positive source-based tax on capital income. A revenue-neutral tax reform, which increases the capital tax rate and reduces the labour tax rate will induce firms to substitute labour for capital. Such a tax reform will lower marginal cost of production, increase output, reduce unemployment, an...

Unions are prominent stakeholders in employment relations (ER), representing and protecting the rights of their members other employees on labour-related issues that workforce is overwhelmed with within workplace. The purpose this article was to examine global unionism advise South African (SA) Information Communication Technology (ICT) sector labour unionism. It focuses recent trends literatur...

The decline of collective bargaining and the blurring of organisational boundaries between firms have adversely affected employment standards in the British labour market. In this context, this paper considers the potential for using socially sustainable sourcing to strengthen collective labour market protections for low-wage workers, particularly in situations where work and production is orga...

The labour market effects in Southeast Asia of the COVID-19 pandemic have attracted considerable analysis from both scholars and practitioners. However, much less attention has been paid to pandemic’s impact on legal protections for workers’ unions’ rights, or what might account divergent outcomes this respect economies that share many characteristics, including a strong export orientation labo...

We investigate the interaction between labour and credit market imperfections for the determination of equilibrium unemployment within the framework of the "right-tomanage" approach. Our analysis highlights the critical role of labour mobility for the evaluation of the employment implications of intensified credit market competition. Without labour mobility increased bargaining power of banks w...

This paper assesses the impact that trade unions have on the wage rates paid to full-time employees in Great Britain using data from the Quarterly Labour Force Survey. Unlike previous research, this analysis is conducted over the entire range of the earnings distribution, where it is found that unions have more scope for increasing the earnings of workers on the very lowest of wage rates. Asymm...

The Open University's repository of research publications and other research outputs Trade unions and the wages fund theory: on the significance of Mill's recantation and some notes on Marx's theoretical intervention Journal Article How to cite: Sotiropoulos, Dimitris and Economakis, George (2008). Trade unions and the wages fund theory: on the significance of Mill's recantation and some notes ...