Strategy and trade union effectiveness in a neo-liberal environment
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Trade unions which operate in an environment without state support need to make strategic choices to maximize their effectiveness. The chosen strategy links union-employer relations and union-worker relations. An examination of the New Zealand neo-liberal environment reveals that unions have four basic strategic choices. They can opt for the classic pattern of unionism, which mobilizes workers and is strongly adversarial towards employers, or they can opt for consultancy unionism, partnership unionism or for the paper tiger approach, which includes a formal pattern of opposition towards employers.
Publication Name: British Journal of Industrial Relations
Subject: Human resources and labor relations
ISSN: 0007-1080
Year: 1997
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The relaunch of the Trades Union Congress
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The Trades Union Congress (TUC) is still seen as a stolid and dull institution, ill matched to a changing society. However, over recent years the TUC has shown considerable dynamism by implementing major changes to its structure, activities and internal operation. Its formal relaunch was in March 1994, characterized as a venture in 'managerial unionism'. However the contradiction between attachment to social partnership and the commitment to organizing trade unionism is unresolved.
Publication Name: British Journal of Industrial Relations
Subject: Human resources and labor relations
ISSN: 0007-1080
Year: 1998
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