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Smothering the Right to Strike : Work Choices and Industrial Action

McCrystal, Shae - 2008

most fundamental attack on the right to strike in Australia since its introduction in 1993, smothering the ability of … employees and trade unions to take strike action in support of free collective bargaining …

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Industrial Actions and Firing Regimes : How Deregulating Worker "Exit" Reshapes Worker "Voice"

Belloc, Filippo - 2021

Using data on more than 13000 European establishments over the 2009-2013 period, we analyze the relationship between discharge regulation and industrial actions. We empirically answer the question as whether stricter dismissal laws make EU establishments experience more frequent and intense...

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Time to Tweak or Re-Boot? Assessing the Interest Arbitration Process in Canadian Industrial Relations

Chaykowski, Richard P. - 2019

Interest arbitration, or third-party arbitration, is an essential element of the Canadian industrial relations system, with considerable impact on the public interest, particularly in relation to public-sector industries. As an instrument of labour relations policy, interest arbitration has...

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Strikes, employee workplace representation, unionism, and industrial relations quality in European establishments

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2018

councils are associated with reduced strike activity. However, where union members make up a majority of works councillors …, such union-dominated councils experience greater strike activity than do their counterparts with minority union membership …. Dissonance between the parties as to the state of industrial relations is associated with elevated strike activity. Finally …

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The incidence and outcomes of industrial action: new evidence from the 2019 European company survey

Addison, John T.; Teixeira, Paulino - 2022

relations quality and strike incidence. We also consider some six issues behind the most recent instances of industrial action … or threatened industrial action and their outcomes. Strike incidence is found to be elevated in establishments where … relationships are associated with increased strike incidence, and the converse for an employee-focused business strategy and …

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The First Facebook Firing Case Under Section 7 of the National Labor Relations Act : Exploring the Limits of Labor Law Protection for Concerted Communication on Social Media

O'Brien, Christine Neylon - 2014

The emergence of social media, from Facebook to Myspace and Linkedin to Twitter - much like the earlier evolution of email, IM and web 2.0 - have changed communications, expanding the virtual horizons for social networking and business promotion on these popular communications platforms....

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The Relative Bargaining Power of Employers and Unions in the Global Information Age : A Comparative Analysis of the United States and Japan

Dau-Schmidt, Kenneth Glenn; Ellis, Benjamin - 2015

In this paper, we examine and compare the impact of American and Japanese labor law on the relative bargaining power of the labor and management within the context of the new global economy based on information technology. We begin by providing a simple economic definition of bargaining power...

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Is a Full Labor Relations Evidentiary Privilege Developing?

Rubinstein, Mitchell H. - 2008

Whether a full labor relations privilege is developing is one of the most interesting as well as difficult aspects of labor law and the law of evidence. This issue typically arises when an employee has a confidential conversation with a non-attorney union representative concerning a labor...

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The Law and Labor Strife in the U.S., 1881-1894

Currie, Janet; Ferrie, Joseph P. - 1998

Economic models of disputes often assume that the rules of the game are well understood and that parties know the possible consequences of their actions. In this paper we show the apparently unintended consequences of state-level legal innovations governing labor disputes that took place in the...

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'Regulating Labor Disputes in the Police Services : Legal & Practical Perspectives from Ontario and British Columbia, Canada'

Carabetta, Giuseppe - 2021

Ontario and British Columbia, Canada, have not seen a police strike in living memory. The reason for this is the …

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