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Interrelationships among trade union commitment, organizational commitment, job satisfaction and trade union participation
… relationships between organizational commitment, trade union commitment, job satisfaction and trade union participation. A survey based on the work of Meyer and Allen (1997) was used to collect data. The sample consisted of 90 participants who were members of the same trade union. The main …
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Trade Union Organisers in Trade Union Organising Strategies: building workplace unionism or reinforcing bureaucracy
This thesis considers the role of union full time officers in union organising strategies. Two decades of promoting union organising influenced by models developed by the AFL-CIO, has failed to arrest the decline of UK trade unions let alone produce evidence of renewal. Focusing mainly on one …
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An Economic Analysis of Trade Union Power
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The regional trade-union : lessons from Spain
… in the last two decades as a new field of trade-union activity. There is increasing interaction across Europe between unions, employer associations, and state actors at the subnational territorial level. These practices take different forms and cover a wide range of issues, with training …
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Learning for Solidarity: transformative journeys into global trade union activism
This thesis explores the intersection at which UK trade union learning meets global worker solidarity, primarily through the use of in-depth interviews with learners and learning providers. It examines the extent to which trade union learning influences and activates members to respond through …
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An Analysis of American Trade Union Membership Trends, 1945-1960
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The rights of an employee to participate in Trade Union matters
… that status of being an employer, an employee, a trade union or other employers' organisations. Lack of ready answers to such questions lead to abuse of certain rights which may eventually lead to socially undesirable developments. The rights of every employee to join a trade union of his choice …
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Trade union recognition law as an aid to freedom of association?
… bodies – principally in the form of trade unions – that can muster collective strength and bargain with employers to secure the economic and social well-being of their members. The German-born British scholar Otto Kahn-Freund transmitted his observations of employer-employee relations …
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The implications of trade union merger: a view from the grassroots
… of UNISON, with 1.3 million members, the largest trade union in Britain. The thesis analyses the effects of this merger between NUPE, NALGO and COHSE on the grassroots activists of the union. Much valuable industrial relations research exists on the causes and consequences of trade union mergers …
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Learning, knowledge and trade union renewal : an analysis of the student experience of the MA in international labour and trade union studies Ruskin College, Oxford (2006-2016)
… of work has catalysed an existential crisis of trade unionism. The search for ways in which to renew and revitalise organised labour is the most urgent task of the global trade union movement. In doing so however, this thesis asks firstly, when developing strategies for trade union renewal what …
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The formative years of the trade union movement in Saskatchewan 1905 - 1920
… years 1905 to 1919 as the formative years of the trade union movement in Saskatchewan was by no means arbitrary. The years 1905 marked the formation of the first permanent, non-railway local union. The intervening years until 1919 were years of further formation and consolidation, of recognition …
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The Spatial Dimensions of Trade Union Organisation in Ireland: A Case Study
Trad© unions/ despite their prominent position in Western society/ have received little attention in geographical studies/ a neglect typified by the Irish situation. This ommission appears all the more remarkable given that the spatial patterns of trade union organisation/ as evidenced by branch …
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Local trade union responses in the context of public healthcare service privatisation
… (Bach and Bordogna, 2011). In response, some trade unions have looked to influence the implementation of these reforms by politicising healthcare service delivery in an attempt to stop privatisation (Krachler and Greer 2015). Yet, comparative research focused on NPM reforms has tended to …
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The impact of lean on the UK civil service and the trade union response
… the Civil Service and the response of the PCS trade union and its membership. Through a case study approach, this research examines management's use of lean focussing on several large central government departments. The thesis argues that rather than view lean as a set of business improvement …
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Trade union movement in the State of Kuwait : a socio-historical and analytical study
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Michigan State University. Dept. of Sociology, 1983
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An analysis of the experiences of learners who completed a university-based programme for trade union women what factors facilitated or hindered their 'plough back' of learning to build their trade union organization?
… set out to explore the effects of learning on a trade union organisation. The emphasis on learning in the South African trade union movement is often whether it results in building and strengthening union organisation. The trade union jargon used to describe this phenomenon is 'plough back'. The …
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Perceptions of eThekwini-based trade union leadership on service delivery violence under the Zuma presidency
… Zuma in the opinions of the eThekwini-based trade union collective’s leadership. In justification of trade union choice for this purpose, credentials were tabled by portraying the crucial role trade union played in the political process and employment of collective action in South Africa, in …
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Employees, managers and the Trade Union: changes and continuities in the employment relationship 1983-1998
… company indicated the ways in which issues of union leadership, the bargaining relationship and perceptions of commitment and trust, could be dramatically affected by significant change within the managerial structures and strategies of an organisation'. The thesis demonstrates how the …
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Impact of trade union on improving employees working conditions: The case study of COTWU and TUGHE
Labour Union are legal organizations that consist of a group workers who have banded together to bargain with employers on behalf of workers. The primary role of labour unions is to fight for better rights, working condition, wages, hours and benefits for workers. The aim objective of this study …
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