Organizing Matters

Mundlak, Guy

doi:10.4337/9781839104039

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“…In Germany, company-level worker councils and sector-level unions find themselves in continuous tension, as they promote workers’ interests on two, allegedly conflicting, levels, pushing for continuous changes in unions’ inclusion of workers’ voice, while struggling to maintain coordination of collective bargaining (e.g. Mundlak, 2020). Finally, the approach of corporatist unions to environmental issues (e.g.…”

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“…As seen in cases of new organising initiatives in corporatist industrial relations (e.g. Mundlak, 2020), tensions are also expected to rise between actors over power and logics of action. While these tensions may undermine coordinated class representation, expected tensions can be found to complement unions’ (declining) power resources, promoting actors’ strategic transformation (e.g.…”

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Conflictual Complementarity: New Labour Actors in Corporatist Industrial Relations

Bondy

2021

Work, Employment and Society

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Liberalisation of industrial relations entails the weakening of unions and a respective rise of alternative, ‘new labour actors’, altering traditional class representation by introducing new strategies. Research on this phenomenon has focused on decentralised contexts, where new actors are seen to pursue both independent strategies as well as cooperation with unions to contest rising employers’ discretion. Drawing on multiple qualitative methodologies, this article analyses the roles and contributions of new actors in the context of corporatist industrial relations, to find rising conflicts between them and unions. Combining social movement theories of strategic change with industrial relations theories of power and theories of institutional complementarity, reveals conflictual forms of complementarity between new actors and corporatist unions. Through interacting with new labour actors, corporatist union strategies are seen to change in a ‘spin-off’ form, reforming unions’ traditional power and dominance to (partially) counter previous liberalisation of industrial relations.

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Section: Patterns Of Workers’ Representation – Varieties Of Complemen...mentioning

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Conflictual Complementarity: New Labour Actors in Corporatist Industrial Relations

Bondy

2021

Work, Employment and Society

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“…In the Netherlands, although becoming more decentralised in recent decades, industrial relations are still characterised by a high concentration of interests on the side of both labour and employers (Mundlak, 2020). This is matched by strong institutionalised tripartite (Economic and Social Council) and bipartite (Foundation of Labour) institutions that affect political decision-making.…”

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Representing Solo Self-Employed Workers: The Strengthening of Relations between Traditional and New Collective Actors in Industrial Relations

Mezihorák

Murgia

Borghi

et al. 2022

Work, Employment and Society

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To date, the emergence of representation of hitherto under-represented workers has mainly been analysed in terms of strategic choices of traditional industrial relations actors. This study – focused on solo self-employed workers (SSE) – instead analyses the interactions between unions, employer organisations and new collective actors, namely SSE associations. More specifically, drawing on a comparative ethnography conducted in three European countries, it conceptualises the representation of SSE as a ‘subfield’ of the ‘parent field’ of employee and employer representation and shows how interactions between traditional and new collective actors consolidate the subfield of SSE representation by also shaping the industrial relations’ institutions. This article thus contributes, first, to the debate about the representation of under-represented workers by emphasising the importance of interactions between traditional and new actors in industrial relations, and second, to the theory of fields by conceptualising interactions as a central element of field-level change.

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“…Yet Israel is characterized by dominant labour courts committed to advancing labour rights in an activist manner. 124 In Israel, the constitutional documents do not include collective rights, such as the right to organize and the right to strike. Nevertheless, the commitment of the labour courts to the development of labour law and protection of human rights could allow for the possibility of filling these gaps.…”

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Collective labour rights of police officers: Global labour constitutionalism and militaristic labour constitutionalism

Litor

2022

Glob. Con.

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Collective labour rights, including the right to organize and strike, were recognized in the principles of the International Labour Organization (ILO) as fundamental rights. Despite their importance, different countries enacted legislation that included a ban on police organization in trade unions or a ban just on police strikes. The right of police officers to organize and strike is of particular importance nowadays at a time of increased public scrutiny and large-scale protests over incidents of extra-judicial killing by police. There is a need to recognize collective rights for police officers in order to improve working conditions and organizational justice at work for them as a way of moderating officers’ perspectives of public hostility and improving their capability to carry out their duties. Another benefit of recognizing a right to organize is the union’s capacity to advance important values, including avoiding racism and violence and assuring the compliance of individual officers with the ethics and code of conduct expected from police officers. This article seeks to address the unique topic of the linkage between the collective labour rights of police officers and varieties of constitutionalism in these critical times. It introduces two potential approaches in this regard: (1) global labour constitutionalism; and (2) militaristic labour constitutionalism. The former implements international standards set by the ILO as a basis for constitutionalism while the latter emphasizes domestic issues and the need to maintain the public order and security of citizens. The article examines the possibility of applying global labour constitutionalism as a basis for recognizing collective rights for police officers.

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Organizing Matters

Cited by 14 publications

References 112 publications

Conflictual Complementarity: New Labour Actors in Corporatist Industrial Relations

Conflictual Complementarity: New Labour Actors in Corporatist Industrial Relations

Representing Solo Self-Employed Workers: The Strengthening of Relations between Traditional and New Collective Actors in Industrial Relations

Collective labour rights of police officers: Global labour constitutionalism and militaristic labour constitutionalism

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