Focuses on recent empirical evidence on management approaches to industrial relations in greenfield companies in Ireland. Places particular emphasis on the impact of industrial relations on the location of greenfield site facilities, patterns of trade union recognition and avoidance, pay...

The Government White Paper, Fairness at Work , offers the opportunity for a statutory procedure for the introduction of collective bargaining when a majority of trade union members within a workplace require it. Within this proposal assumptions are made concerning the nature of individual...

Purpose – Examines union and non‐union consultation and representation arrangements at South West Water, UK. Design/methodology/approach – Constitutes a briefing that is prepared by an independent writer who adds his own impartial comments. Findings – Demonstrates that perceptions of...

Purpose – This paper aims to examine union and non‐union consultation and representative arrangements at South West Water (SWW) over a ten‐year period, from 1992 to 2002. Design/methodology/approach – The paper attempts to fill the gap in the current research by examining the processes...

Considers issues relating to trade union recognition following a recent Trades Union Congress (TUC) report. Looks at the the UK′s past experience in this field, featuring the work of bodies such as the Commission on Industrial Relations (CIR) and the Advisory, Conciliation and Arbitration...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to offer a broad practitioner’s overview of recent trade union history in the UK, and to investigate organised labour’s prospects in the decades ahead. Design/methodology/approach – The paper is based on a review of relevant literature and trade...