Do you think that Significant Presence of the Trade Union in the Public Sector a Source of Concern to Managers?
Abstract
The neo-liberal economic policies have brought significant changes in the traditional roles of public sector as an employment provider and tradition role of trade union as a collective bargainer. The collective organisational power of the public sector trade unions have been reduced to decentralised-firm level bargaining after the process of individualizing the employment relations (Farnham D and Pimlott J, 1995; ) in the neo- liberal economy throughout the world. Nevertheless, it is complete misconception to assume the end of trade Unionism, following new the process of individualizing the employment relations because at the firm level decentralised strength still prevailing with the public sector trade unions.
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2. Bartram T, Cregan C. Consultative Employment Relations in Human Resource Management Environments with a Union Presence. Journal of Industrial Relations 2003; 45(4): 539-545. doi: 10.1111/j.0022-1856.2003.00100.x.
3. Blyton P, Turnbull P. The dynamics of Employee Relations, 1998.
4. European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions. Public sector is focus of industrial action, 2019.
5. Farnham D and Pimlott J. Understanding Industrial Relations, Cassell, 1995.
6. Freeman RB. The Effect Of Trade Unionism On Fringe Benefits. National Bureau of Economic Research, Cambridge, 1978: 292.
7. Hutt WH. The Strike-Threat System: The Economic Consequence of Collective Bargaining, Arlington House, Newyork, 1973: 282.
8. Hyman R. London: Macmillan 1989: 231.
9. Kessler S, Bayliss F. Contemporary British Industrial Relations, 3rd ed. London: Macmillan, 1998.
10. Kirkpatrick I, Hoque K. The decentralization of employment relations in the British public sector, Industrial Relations Journal 2005; 36(2): 100-120.
11. Lucio MM. Trade unions and employment relations in the context of public sectorchange: The public sector, old welfare states and the politics of managerialism. International Journal ofPublic Sector Management 2007; 20(1): 5-15.
12. Prowse P, Prowse J. Is there still a public sector model of employment relations in theUnited Kingdom? International Journal of Public Sector Management 2007; 20(1): 48-62.
13. Salamon M. Industrial relations theory and practice. Contemporary Employment Relations, Oxford University Press, 2000.
14. Valkenburg B, Zoll R. Modernization, Individualization and Solidarity: Two Perspectives on European Trade Unions Today. European Journal of Industrial Relations 1995; 1(1): 119-144.
Published
2022-07-15
How to Cite
MARIMUTHU GURUSAMY, Rajamanickam.
Do you think that Significant Presence of the Trade Union in the Public Sector a Source of Concern to Managers?.
International Journal of Law, Human Rights and Constitutional Studies, [S.l.], v. 3, n. 2, p. 1-4, july 2022.
Available at: <http://thejournalshouse.com/index.php/IntlJ-Law-Humanrights-Consstudy/article/view/624>. Date accessed: 02 feb. 2025.
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Research Article
