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CEP discussion paper
Employee Voice and Private Sector Workplace Outcomes in Britain, 1980-2004

Non-union direct voice has replaced union representative voice as the primary avenue for employee voice in the British private sector. This paper provides a framework for examining the relationship between employee voice...Read more...

Alex Bryson, Rafael Gomez, Tobias Kretschmer and P Willman

April 2009

CEP discussion paper
Trading Places: Employers, Unions and the Manufacture of Voice

Using nationally representative workplace data for Britain we show that over the last quarter century union voice – especially union-only voice – has been associated with poorer climate, more industrial action, poorer fi...Read more...

Alex Bryson, Rafael Gomez and P Willman

August 2008

Manpower Human Resource Lab paper
From the Two Faces of Unionism to the Facebook Society: Union Voice in a 21st Century Context

Union membership has declined precipitously in the US over the past 40 years. Can anything be done to stem this decline? This paper argues that union voice is an attribute (among others) of union membership that is exper...Read more...

Alex Bryson, Rafael Gomez and P Willman

April 2008

CentrePiece article
In brief:Union Blues

Alex Bryson and Paul Willman chart the continuing decline of Britain's trade unions...Read more...

Alex Bryson and P Willman

October 2007

CEP discussion paper
Union Organization in Great Britain

Union membership and density in Britain has experienced substantial decline since 1979. The fall in private sector membership and density has been much greater than in the public sector. The size of the union sector, mea...Read more...

Alex Bryson and P Willman

January 2007

CEP discussion paper
Accounting for Collective Action: Resource Acquisition and Mobilization in British Unions

The paper uses two data sources to map trends in resource availability for trade unions in Britain. Union resources exist on the one hand in the form of subscription income and accumulated assets shown in union accounts ...Read more...

Alex Bryson and P Willman

December 2006

CentrePiece article
In brief: Circling the Wagons: Unions' Part in their Own Decline

The conventional explanation of union decline in Britain tends to stress the impact of outside forces. Manufacturing employment collapsed and there was massive membership loss. Unemployment rose. Hostile legislation impa...Read more...

P Willman

June 2005

CentrePiece article
In brief: New Opportunities for Britain's Trade Unions?

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 ...Read more...

John Kelly and P Willman

February 2005

CentrePiece article
How to Score Goals

Riccardo Peccei, Helen Bewley, Howard Gospel and Paul Willman look at the effects of disclosure of information to employees....Read more...

Helen Bewley, Howard Gospel, R Peccei and P Willman

February 2004

CEP discussion paper
Comparatively Open: Statutory Information Disclosure for Consultation and Bargaining in Germany, France and the UK

Information provision is an important part of all mechanisms which give employees voice at work. This paper considers the law on information disclosure for joint consultation and collective bargaining in three countries,...Read more...

Howard Gospel and P Willman

February 2004

CEP discussion paper
Is it Good to Talk? Information Disclosure and Organisational Performance in the UK Incorporating evidence submitted on the DTI discussion paper 'High Performance Workplaces - Informing and Consulting Employees'

The disclosure of information by management to employees varies significantly between workplaces. The effects of this variance on organizational performance are analysed using WERS98 data. The results show that the impac...Read more...

Helen Bewley, Howard Gospel, R Peccei and P Willman

December 2003

CEP discussion paper
Why Do Voice Regimes Differ?

In this paper we seek to explain the emergence of different voice regimes, and to do so by using approaches from institutional economics. In particular we analyse the emergence of different voice regimes as a contracting...Read more...

Alex Bryson, Rafael Gomez and P Willman

November 2003

CEP discussion paper
High Performance Workplaces: the Role of Employee Involvement in a Modern Economy Evidence on the EU Directive Establishing a General Framework for Informing and Consulting Employees

This paper contains evidence submitted on the DTI green paper 'High Performance Workplaces: The Role of Employee Involvement in a Modern Economy: A Discussion Paper'. This follows on the EU Directive establishing a Gen...Read more...

Howard Gospel and P Willman

February 2003

CentrePiece article
Consulting the Workers

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Howard Gospel and P Willman

October 2002

CEP discussion paper
The Viability of Trade Union Organisation: A Bargaining Unit Analysis

The paper develops a model of trade union behaviour based on the concept of the viable bargaining unit. Bargaining unit viability rests on five conditions; membership level, service level, membership participation, emplo...Read more...

P Willman

November 2000

CentrePiece article
The Right to Know: What Should Employers Tell Their Workers?

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Howard Gospel, G Lockwood and P Willman

October 2000

CEP discussion paper
The Right to Know: Disclosure of Information for Collective Bargaining and Joint Consultation

The legal obligation on employers to provide information to employees has grown since the early 1970s. At that time, the emphasis was on disclosure for collective bargaining. In the 1980s and 1990s, the emphasis shifted ...Read more...

Howard Gospel, G Lockwood and P Willman

April 2000