Union Commitment and Activism in Britain and the United States: Searching for Synthesis and Synergy for Renewal

Gall, Gregor; Fiorito, Jack

doi:10.1111/j.1467-8543.2011.00855.x

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“…In response to these problems, many UK unions have turned to 'organizing' strategies based on developing grass-roots activism and leadership by building campaigns around key collective workplace issues (Simms and Holgate 2010;Gall and Fiorito 2012). However, assessments of such approaches in the UK are, at best, mixed.…”

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Contemporary Union Organizing in the UK—Back to the Future?

Saundry

Wibberley

2013

Labor Studies Journal

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Contemporary Union Organizing in the UK—Back to the Future?

Saundry

Wibberley

2013

Labor Studies Journal

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“…FinallyThird, we welcome Gall and Fiorito's (2012) call for an integration of the union commitment and renewal literatures, and our findings underline the need to link this to contextual factors, analyzed in a multi-level context. However, However, But we recognize that we have examined here just one group-level factor and that there is a need for more research is needed on other contextual factors including, for example, workplace and union characteristics and climate, including local union leadership.…”

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“…We began by noting that, although whilst member activism has been seen as central to union renewal (Fairbrother 2000;Fiorito 2004), there is evidence of an activism problem is evident, with only a small minority of union members actively participating in their union (Gall and Fiorito 2012).…”

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“…Nevertheless, even thoughHowever, whilst member activism is seen as having a key role to play in the future of the union movement, the fact remains that only a minority of members volunteer for active roles in their unions, suggesting the existence of an activism problem . Under these circumstances, it is important to developing our understanding of the factors that may motivate participation is important, if unions are to better develop their organizing and renewal strategies (Gall and Fiorito 2012).…”

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How “Collective” Is Union Citizenship Behavior? Assessing Individual and Coworker Antecedents

Snape¹,

Redman²,

Gould-Williams

2014

ILR Review

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Use policyThe full-text may be used and/or reproduced, and given to third parties in any format or medium, without prior permission or charge, for personal research or study, educational, or not-for-prot purposes provided that:• a full bibliographic reference is made to the original source • a link is made to the metadata record in DRO • the full-text is not changed in any way The full-text must not be sold in any format or medium without the formal permission of the copyright holders.Please consult the full DRO policy for further details. In this paperarticle, we examine the extent to which UCB can be characterized as an essentially collective phenomenon. First, we evaluate whether it is meaningful to think of collective or "group-level" UCB, whereby in which there is a degree of within-group consistency and between-group variability is observable at the level of the work unit.Whilst Although there is some research has examineding organizational citizenship in terms of the group-level characteristics of organizational citizenship (Podsakoff and MacKenzie 1994;Podsakoff et al. 1997), to date, union citizenship has been conceptualized solely at the individual level of analysis. This is surprising, given the long-4 standing and traditional notion that union participation is a collective act of solidarity with one's fellow workers (e.g., Rose 1952; Kelly 1998). Second, we examine the relationship between the individuals' UCB of individuals and that the UCB of their work group. We anticipate that group-level UCB will explain additionalany additional variance in individual-level UCB, beyond that explained by the individual-level antecedents identified in the union participation and citizenship literature (Bamberger et al. 1999). Finally, we suggest that the extent to which members of a work unit are consistent in their level of UCB will moderate the relationship between group and individual UCB. The argument here is that, whenre group members are highly consistent in their behaviors, this sends a stronger signal to individuals about the "appropriate" way to behave (Bommer et al. 2003).In the next two sections, Before describing our methodology and our two samples, we provide the necessary background and rationale for our hypotheses., before describing our methodology and our two samples. We then describe the results and, concluding the paper with a discussion of their significance and implications.

Individual-Level AntecedentsBased on their meta-analysis of the union participation research, Bamberger et al. (1999) developed a model of the antecedents of union commitment and participation (, with antecedents: organizational commitment, job satisfaction, pro-union attitudes, and union instrumentality as antecedents) as antecedents of union commitment and participation.Their evidence suggesteds that the effects of job satisfaction and union instrumentality on union commitment are partially mediated by organizational commitment and pro-union attitudes respectively, and that union commitment was assumed to mediates t...

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“…According to Gall and Fiorito (2012), when unions tend to be more effective and productive when thye have greater participation from members. Simms et al (2012) stated that that unions have greater bargaining power when they have stronger membership.…”

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A review on factors contributing to declining trade union membership in Malaysia

Ganesan

2016

Int. j. adv. appl. sci

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Trade union membership is a vital element in assessing the strength and status of a trade union. Its growth is attributed to the advancement in the National industrial relations system. Therefore, this focuses on identifying the factors that contributes the factors responsible for declining trade union membership. The respondents of this study are unionized employees representing five different sectors. The data is analyzed using multiple regression. The findings indicate that all the factors studied contribute to decline in trade union membership. This includes trade union internal factors, employer hostility and industrial relations climate. Thus, the actors of industrial relations system should pay attention in protecting the rights and welfare of the workers.

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Union Commitment and Activism in Britain and the United States: Searching for Synthesis and Synergy for Renewal

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Contemporary Union Organizing in the UK—Back to the Future?

Contemporary Union Organizing in the UK—Back to the Future?

How “Collective” Is Union Citizenship Behavior? Assessing Individual and Coworker Antecedents

A review on factors contributing to declining trade union membership in Malaysia

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