Employee Relations: Volume 5 Issue 5

Unions on the Board

Eric Batstone, Anthony Ferner, Mike Terry

In the mid to late 1970s, the deliberations of the Bullock Committee on industrial democracy led to a set of proposals for “worker directors” on the boards of large private…

The Recession and Industrial Relations:: A Factory Approach

M.G. Chadwick

With the current record levels of unemployment comes growing speculation that an era of industrial relations may be coming to an end. Patterns and trends which have been…

Concession Bargaining: The British Experience

P.B. Beaumont

In the United States, the phenomenon of “concession bargaining”, whereby management seeks to obtain wage freezes or actual cuts in wages, is being widely discussed by both…

Involving Employees — Practical Action on Section One

John Wates

We are now in the first months of the provisions of Section One of the 1982 Employment Act coming into force. The Industrial Society has been working on practical involvement…

Legislation and the Election of Union Moderates

Roger Undy, Roderick Martin

In 1976, the Conservative Party expressed the view that trade unions were “… imperfectly democratic”. Subsequently they returned to this theme in a Green Paper on Union Democracy…

Trade Union Education and Training in Britain:: A Critique of Public Policy

John Salmon

The Labour Movement in Britain has long had a commitment to the education of its membership. It is, however, relatively recently that education and training, specifically in areas…