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The Role of Union Legitimacy and Identity in Shaping Strategic Choice

open access: yesIndustrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, Volume 65, Issue 4, Page 452-467, October 2026.
ABSTRACT This article explores how union legitimacy and identity shape union strategies. It highlights that while union identity is key to understanding strategic variation, legitimacy also plays a crucial role as unions must continuously earn and maintain it with various constituencies.
Geneviève Coderre‐LaPalme   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Implementing Automation: The Shopfloor Politics of Technological Change in the Canadian Aerospace Sector

open access: yesBritish Journal of Industrial Relations, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 467-479, September 2026.
ABSTRACT What are the social processes of integrating new production technologies into existing work processes? How do management and trade union approaches shape the implementation and debugging of new technologies on the shopfloor? Drawing on the industrial relations literature on debugging and four cases of technological change at a major Canadian ...
Daniel Nicholson
wiley   +1 more source

Too Little, Too Weak? Paid Parental Leaves in Philippine Collective Bargaining Agreements

open access: yesBritish Journal of Industrial Relations, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 480-496, September 2026.
ABSTRACT When statutory work–family entitlements are deemed insufficient, workers often rely on collective bargaining to secure better terms. However, the extent to which unions can deliver higher than statutory benefits remains underexplored, especially in developing countries with decentralized bargaining systems and low union salience. Bridging this
Vincent Jerald Ramos
wiley   +1 more source

Theorising the Impacts of Polycrisis on Employment Relations: Complexity and Diversity at a Global Scale

open access: yesBritish Journal of Industrial Relations, Volume 64, Issue 3, Page 570-583, September 2026.
ABSTRACT Polycrisis—understood as intersecting crises that amplify each other rather than unfolding separately—poses profound challenges for employment relations theory and practice. The employment relationship is simultaneously a site where the effects of crises are most acutely experienced and a central mechanism through which profit is generated ...
Tony Dobbins   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Longitudinal Analyses of the Effects of Trade Unions [PDF]

open access: yes
This paper examines how measurement error biases longitudinal estimates of union effects. It develops numerical examples, statistical models, and econometric estimates which indicate that measurement error is a major problem in longitudinal data sets, so
Richard B. Freeman
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Industrial Relations and Working From Home in Germany During the COVID‐19 Pandemic

open access: yesLABOUR, Volume 40, Issue 3, Page 321-342, September 2026.
ABSTRACT We investigate the role of industrial relations for working from home during and after the COVID‐19 pandemic in Germany. Using data from the German Socio‐Economic Panel (SOEP) for the years 2020 to 2023 and a special COVID sample (SOEP‐CoV) for 2020 and 2021, we examine how collective bargaining and plant‐level co‐determination are associated ...
Laszlo Goerke   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Proceedings of the 24 May 2019 World Trade Institute Workshop held at the World Trade Organization, Geneva [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
E-book of contributions made at the WTI Workshop on WTO Appellate Review: Reform Proposals and Alternatives, held on 24 May 2019 at the World Trade Organization in Geneva.

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Trade Unions and Union Representatives

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Abstract Trade unions (TUs) play a vital role in the labor market, serving as civil society advocates for workers’ rights and employment conditions. While TUs primarily represent employed individuals ("insiders") rather than those seeking employment, their focus on workplace conditions can also benefit marginalized groups (“outsiders”)
openaire   +1 more source

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