The passage of the 1999 Employment Relations Act arguably signified the recovery of trade unions' political influence after many years of exclusion from policy-making under the Conservatives. As a new CEP book edited by John Kelly and Paul Willman shows, the Act has been very important in stimulating increased union organising and a pragmatic accommodation to union recognition by many employers.

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February 2005     Paper Number CEPCP176

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