Employee Relations: Volume 8 Issue 1

Trade Unions, Collective Bargaining and Reduced Working Time: A Critical Assessment

Paul Rathkey

Rising unemployment in the 1970s and particularly over the last six years (1979–85) has focused trade union strategies on the question of job creation. The initial response was…

The Impact of Contracting Out in the NHS

R. Mailly

The provision of services by private contractors in the National Health Service rather than by direct labour is not a recent phenomenon. Certain services, eg. the erection and…

Managing the Process of Negotiation

R.E. Fells

There is a growing literature on negotiation, much of which is directed towards negotiations which take place in the industrial relations context. However, negotiation is a…

Profit‐sharing and Employee Share Ownership: An Initial Assessment

Harvie Ramsay, John W. Leopold, Jeff Hyman

I point out also that there are 1,800,000 more owner‐occupiers since 1979 — a policy fought tooth and nail by the Labour Party; that there has been a dramatic extension of share…