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The Role of Union Legitimacy and Identity in Shaping Strategic Choice

Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.
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, Ruth Reaney   +1 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hitos evolutivos y reacomodo orgánico del sindicalismo venezolano en el marco de un nuevo pacto social

Iberoamericana. América Latina - España - Portugal, 2015
El presente trabajo analiza los hitos históricos más relevantes del proceso evolutivo del sindicalismo venezolano. Se discutirá la etapa de deterioro del movimiento sindical, en el que esta organización se vio arrastrada por la inercia de una crisis ...
Luis Lauriño Torrealba
doaj   +1 more source

Assessing the Employee Welfare Impact of Right‐To‐Work Laws: Insights From State‐Level Legislation

Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT We examine the effect of right‐to‐work (RTW) laws on employee welfare using the stacked difference‐in‐differences (DiD) methodology. We posit that RTW laws weaken collective bargaining power, increase free riding, and ultimately reduce employee welfare. We document a significant employee welfare decline following RTW adoption, especially among
Shima Amini, Eilnaz Kashefi‐Pour, Ali Sajjadi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

¿La democratización en contra de los trabajadores? La CUT, el movimiento sindical y el dilema de la transición pactada en Chile

Les Cahiers de Framespa, 2018
The present (this) article envisions the democratisation process in Chile through the prism of one essential but little-examined factor in transition studies: trade-unionism.
Sebastián Osorio, Franck Gaudichaud
doaj   +1 more source

Striking for a Just Transition? North American Auto Unions and the Electric Vehicle Transition

Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Decarbonization heightens risks for workers, but union strategies shape how these risks are managed and whether new jobs offer quality employment. This paper compares U.S. and Canadian auto unions during the 2023 Detroit Three bargaining, focusing on strategic capacities and internal politics to explain their divergent responses to the EV ...
Mathieu Dupuis, Ian Greer, Dongwoo Park
wiley   +1 more source

Evaluating the Role and Impact of Tanzanian Trade Unions on Worker’s Welfare from 2016 to 2021

iRASD Journal of Management
This study appraised the role of the trade unions during the five years of the fifth phase regime in Tanzania in addressing employee’s concerns. The main aim was to assess the views of trade union members on how they view functioning of their unions ...
Paul Loisulie
doaj   +1 more source

Le « syndicalisme de base » dans l’Argentine kirchneriste. Une autonomie en question

Cahiers des Amériques Latines, 2017
In the course of last ten years, the dynamism of the trade union Argentine movement was obtained from, on the one hand, the reaffirmation of the political roll of the trade union directions and the increase of the collective bargaining and, on the other ...
Santiago Duhalde, Juan S. Montes Cató, Pierre Rouxel   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Building Legitimacy in the UK Platform Economy: Representative Strategies of Independent and Mainstream Trade Unions

Industrial Relations Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT In this paper we explore the representative strategies of different trade unions within the UK platform economy, and the efforts to build legitimacy among a disparate workforce. Using data from multiple in‐depth research projects, we find that independent unions and self‐organised groups are competing to build representative claims from the ...
Mathew Johnson, Morgan Rhys Powell, Eva Herman   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

From Global Unions to the Shop Floor: Trade Union Networks in Transnational Corporations in Brazil

Global Labour Journal, 2019
This article analyses the origins, development and organisation of cross-union, company-based trade union networks in transnational corporations in the metal and chemical industries in Brazil.
Ricardo Framil Filho, Leonardo Mello e Silva   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

The Open Shop, Closed Shop, Agency Shop, and Union Default in Comparative Perspective: Members, Resources, and Individual Autonomy

Industrial Relations Journal, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Strategies designed to revive the declining union movement require new resources and new members for success. For this, many unions often used closed or agency shops. We compare these with the now dominant open shop as well as the union default.
Mark Harcourt, Gregor Gall
wiley   +1 more source