Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations articles from June 1999

Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations archives from June 1999

Implications of Small Bargaining Units and Enterprise Unions on Bargaining Disputes: A Look into the Future?
June 22, 1999... The Wagner Act, upon which most labour legislation in North America is still based, dates back to an industrial relations environment characterized by large bargaining units of predominantly male, full-time workers engaged in standardized mass...

Grievance Resolution: Perceived Goal Interdependence and Interaction Patterns.
June 22, 1999... In North American unionized workplaces, formal grievance procedures are typically used to resolve alleged violations of rights to which employees or employers are entitled by collective agreements or law (Gordon and Miller 1984; Kochan and Katz...

From Job-based Pay to Skill-based Pay in Unionized Establishments: A Three-Plant Comparative Analysis.
June 22, 1999... Skill-based pay (SBP) is a rapidly spreading pay innovation that compensates for the range, depth and types of employee skills, rather than for the jobs employees perform. A recent study of the prevalence of SBP reported that more than half of...

The Production of Flexible Attitudes in the Canadian Pulp and Paper Industry.
June 22, 1999... In its treatment of the issue of employment security, most industrial relations writing has been closer to sociology than to economics. In the calculative world of modern economic theory employment security is likely to be viewed as an obstacle...

Labor Market Regimes and Patterns of Flexibility: A Sweden-Canada Comparison.(Review)
June 22, 1999... by Axel VAN DEN BERG, Bengt FURAKER and Leif JOHANSSON, Lund: Arkiv, 1997, 264 p., ISBN 91-792-4099-2. The basic question posed in his book by the authors is "does labour market security raise or lower workers' adaptability to various...

International and Comparative Employment Relations, 3rd ed.(Review)
June 22, 1999... edited by Greg J. BAMBER and Russell D. LANSBURY, 3rd edition, London: Sage Publications, 1998, 442 p., ISBN 0-7619-5592-5 (hbk) and 0-7619-5591-7 (pbk). When I reviewed the first edition of this book in Relations industrielles/Industrial...