Union Revitalization Strategies in Comparative Perspective

Frege, Carola M.; Kelly, John

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“…Moreover, the traditional leading role of the manufacturing sector within confederations, and in bargaining policy, has been increasingly challenged due to the structural changes towards services, deunionisation in the market sector, and 458 Industrial Relations Journal new conglomerate service unions. The 'revitalisation' of union movements through organisational restructuring has so far not mobilised union members Frege and Kelly, 2003). It contains the potential for increased competition between these large players and threatens to weaken union confederations.…”

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Ever larger unions: organisational restructuring and its impact on union confederations

Ebbinghaus

2003

Industrial Relations Journal

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Unions have responded to current membership decline and other organisational problems by restructuring via mergers, increasing union concentration within and across union confederations. A particular noted feature are amalgamations to form 'super-unions'. These conglomerate unions threaten to undermine the role played by confederations in respect of political voice, bargaining coordination, and service provision. Despite these mergers, union pluralism still prevails in many European countries with separate peak associations organised along employment/occupational status or political and religious lines. After comparing the recent merger waves and increased union concentration in western European countries, the consequences for union movements are discussed.Potential strategies for unions to overcome their structural problems have gained increasing attention in recent years. As part of such efforts towards labour movement 'revitalisation', the issues of mobilisation and restructuring are particularly relevant. Last year's annual review (Ebbinghaus, 2002b) concentrated on the challenge of deunionisation; this year, the analysis will be concerned with strategies for organisational change. In order to mobilise and retain members, unions have in some countries become increasingly dependent on 'union securities' provided by the welfare state such as sheltered public sector employment, statutory workplace access, union-run unemployment insurance, involvement in social concertation and the selfadministration of social insurance. Unions have had varying success in organising the new workplaces, innovative sectors, atypical employment groups, and the rising female labour force as well as young people. Some of the challenges facing unions are

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Ever larger unions: organisational restructuring and its impact on union confederations

Ebbinghaus

2003

Industrial Relations Journal

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“…Dahası, sendikaların böyle elverişsiz emek piyasası koşullarını kendi lehine çevirmesinin mümkün olduğu vurgulanmakta ve bunun yolları geniş bir şekilde tartışılmaktadır (Gall, 2009;Frege & Kelly, 2003).…”

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“…Bu çerçeveler, sendikaların günümüz toplumlarındaki işlevlerini yavaş yavaş yitirdiklerini, daha uygun bir ifadeyle yavaş yavaş tarih sayfalarına karıştığını iddia etmektedirler. Oysa baskı etkisi argümanını kullanan yazarlar, sendikaların yeniden canlanması (union revitalisation) tartışmalarına da ortak olmaktadırlar (Frege & Kelly, 2003;Heery vd., 2003). Sendikaların yeniden canlanması tartışması, sendikaya üye olmak isteyen fakat üyeliği engellenen çok sayıda işçinin varlığını kabul eder.…”

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İkame Etkisi, Baskı Etkisi ve Bu Etkiler ile Sendikalaşma Eğilimi Arasındaki İlişki

Kiliç¹,

Yıldız²

2016

Sosyoekonomi

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The aim of this study is to explore the levels of workers' willingness to unionize, their perceptions about substitution effect and suppression effect, and the relationship between the willingness and the effects. To do so, a survey was conducted among 215 workers. Descriptive statistics were used to determine the mentioned levels, and multiple linear regression analysis was utilized to reveal the mentioned relationship. At the end of the research, we discover that there is a high level of suppression effect and a low level of substitution effect among workers and a stronger tendency on willingness to unionize, and the willingness is robustly predicted by suppression effect.

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“…La puesta en marcha de estrategias de revitalización para tratar de recuperar influencia es un rasgo de definición del sindicalismo europeo desde la década de los noventa. En la mayor parte de casos, el impulso de los pactos sociales ha constituido un elemento central de estas estrategias (Frege y Kelly 2003).…”

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Crisis económica y deterioro de los pactos sociales en el sur de Europa: Los casos de España y Portugal

Begega¹,

Balbona²

2015

Rev. int. sociol.

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ResumenLos pactos sociales han sustentado la agenda de reformas socioeconómicas en la mayor parte de países de Europa occidental a lo largo de las últimas décadas. Sin embargo, la irrupción de la crisis económica ha erosionado la orientación general hacia el acuerdo. Desde 2008 se ha producido una deriva desde la «negociación hacia la imposición», que ha resultado particularmente intensa en el Sur de Europa. En España y Portugal, la puesta en marcha de reformas unilaterales por parte de los gobiernos bajo la vigilancia de las instituciones comunitarias ha provocado el debilitamiento de los pactos sociales. El artículo evalúa la reconfiguración de los equilibrios entre gobiernos y agentes sociales en estos dos países en el contexto de la crisis económica. Para ello, se analiza la emergencia de una nueva dinámica de intercambio político corporatista que combina el diálogo discontinuo y de corto alcance con la confrontación. PalabRas claveAgentes sociales; Conflicto sociolaboral; Diálogo social; Gobiernos; Intercambio político corporatista. abstRactIn most European countries, the reform agenda on socioeconomic issues has been backed on social pacts throughout the last decades. However, the upsurge of the economic crisis has hampered this general orientation towards agreement and consensus. From 2008 and on there has been a transformation «from negotiation to imposition» which has been particularly severe in Southern Europe. In Spain and Portugal, the implementation of unilateral reforms by the governments under the surveillance of the European institutions has provoked the weakening of social pacts. The article evaluates the reconfiguration of the relation between governments and social partners in these two countries as a consequence of the economic crisis. It also analyses the emergence of a new dynamic of corporatist political exchange which combines irregular and short-range dialogue with confrontation.

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Union Revitalization Strategies in Comparative Perspective

Cited by 218 publications

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Ever larger unions: organisational restructuring and its impact on union confederations

Ever larger unions: organisational restructuring and its impact on union confederations

İkame Etkisi, Baskı Etkisi ve Bu Etkiler ile Sendikalaşma Eğilimi Arasındaki İlişki

Crisis económica y deterioro de los pactos sociales en el sur de Europa: Los casos de España y Portugal

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