Employee Relations: Volume 10 Issue 2

THE “OLD INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS” AND CORPORATE COMPETITIVENESS: A CANADIAN CASE

Roy J. Adams

On both sides of the Atlantic, there is much talk amongst academics and practitioners about the “new” industrial relations, based on flexibility, employee involvement, anti‐union…

THE EMPLOYMENT IMPLICATIONS OF GOVERNMENT POLICY: A CASE‐STUDY OF PUBLIC SECTOR CATERING

Clare Kelliher, Steve McKenna

The implications of government policy for public sector catering employees are considerable. Pay, conditions of service, hours of work, the effort‐bargain and staffing levels have…

THE TRADITION OF WORKER PARTICIPATION IN THE NETHERLANDS

Elies Steyger

Collective labour relations within the EEC varies considerably, and it is intended here to explain the underlying attitudes to bargaining between unions and employers in the…

THE STATE OF THE UNIONS: TRADE UNION FINANCES, 1975–1985

Paul Willman, Tim Morris

Whilst there has been quite a lot of research and speculation about the ability of the unions to adapt to the changed environmental circumstances of the 1980s, there has been no…

NIGERIA'S 1980–1982 INCOMES POLICY — PROBLEMS AND ISSUES

P.B. Johnnie

Having reviewed Nigeria's recent attempts at incomes policy, it is concluded that future policies need to be kept to a one‐year maximum in order to generate sufficient public…

LEGITIMISING ARGUMENTS AND WORKER RESISTANCE

Paul S. Kirkbride

The processes of management control in a variety of formal settings within a small engineering company are examined in this second of a series of articles. The range of arguments…