Analysis of developments in union membership has been hampered by the variability of official statistics. Use of trend union membership data can give us a more accurate medium and longer term perspective on the degree of union decline or revival at aggregated and disaggregated levels. Across a...

Two UK business services companies are compared both to each other and to their common state-owned industry background in order to assess the implications of trade union recognition and changes in bargaining structure. Union recognition was abandoned by one company under the agenda of...

This paper develops a theoretical model that may shed some light on the decline of strike activity in many Western economies in recent years. The model’s focus is on protracted strikes that are used in pursuit of wage demands. It proposes that strikes adversely affect employment, particularly...