Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations articles from September 2006

Relations Industrielles/Industrial Relations archives from September 2006

Pistes de renouveau syndical: defis et enjeux.
September 22, 2006... Introduction L'histoire est connue : la nouvelle economie entraine une remise en question des regles du jeu et place les syndicats dans une position de vulnerabilite et de dependance. Les restructurations d'entreprise, la precarisation de...

Paths to union renewal: challenges and issues introduction.
September 22, 2006... The story is well known: the new economy fundamentally changes the rules of the game and puts unions in a position of vulnerability and dependency. The restructuring of firms, the precariousness of employment, the burgeoning of the service...

Powerful community relationships and union renewal in Australia/La construction de liens avec la communaute et le renouveau syndical en Australie/relaciones poderosas con la comunidad y renovacion sindical en Australia.
September 22, 2006... Terms such as labour-community coalitions, community unionism and social movement unionism are important features of current strategies for union renewal. This article develops a three-part framework of union-community relationships, from ad...

Still 'regime competition'? ......(trade unions reaction to restructuring to a multinational)
September 22, 2006... Still 'regime competition'? Trade unions and multinational restructuring in Europe/Les syndicats et les restructurations dans les multinationales en Europe: la concurrence entre les regimes nationaux est-elle inevitable?/les syndicats et les...

When corporations substitute for adversarial unions: Labour Markets and Human Resource Management at Magna/Quand les entreprises se substituent au syndicalisme d'opposition: le marche du travail et la gestion des ressources humaines chez Magna/cuando las corporaciones remplazan los sindicatos hostiles : Mercados de trabajo y recursos humanos en Magna.
September 22, 2006... The industrial relations system at Magna International is an example of an integrated, coherent, non-union human resource management strategy. It includes significant mechanisms of worker voice and conflict resolution as substitutes for union...

Building democracy for women and sexual minorities: union embrace of diversity/Instaurer la democratie pour les femmes et les minorities sexuelles: une vision syndicale de la diversite/edificar la democracia para las mujeres y las minorias sexuales : los sindicatos adhieren a la diversidad.
September 22, 2006... This article assesses Canadian labour's response to changed demographics by considering the way unions have engaged with women and sexual minorities (gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people). Many unions have now adopted inclusive...

Critical unionism and institutional challenge: towards the individualization of militancy?/Syndicalisme critique et defi institutionnel Vers l'individualisation du militantisme?/sindicalismo critico y desafio institucional : ?hacia la individualizacion del militantismo?(Federation des syndicats Sud)
September 22, 2006... SUMMARY The French union movement welcomed a new member into its midst during the 1990s, the Federation des syndicats Sud (Solidaires, Unitaires and Democratiques), a breakaway group from the CFDT (Confederation francaise democratique du...

Trade union renewal in Mexico through the first government of transition/Le renouveau syndical au Mexique sous le premier gouvernement de transition/oportunidades de renovacion sindical en Mexico bajo el primer gobierno de transicion.
September 22, 2006... SUMMARY In 2000, for the first time in more than seventy years, a candidate from the opposition parties won the presidential election in Mexico against the PRI (Partido Revolucionario Institutional). Vicente Fox, from the PAN (Partido...

Le principe du droit au travail: juridicite, signification et normativite.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Le principe du droit au travail : juridicite, signification et normativite, par Dominic Roux, Montreal : Wilson & Lafleur, 2005, 563 p., ISBN : 2-89127-742-2. Dominic Roux propose a la reflexion une question audacieuse. Le droit au travail...

Justice on the Job: Perspectives on the Erosion of Collective Bargaining in the United States.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Justice on the Job : Perspectives on the Erosion of Collective Bargaining in the United States, sous la direction de Richard N. BLOCK, Sheldon FRIEDMAN, Michelle KAMINSI et Andy LEVIN, Kalamazoo, Michigan : W.E. Upjohn Institute for Employment...

Syndicats: lendemains de crise?(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Syndicats : lendemains de crise? par Jean-Marie PERNOT, Paris : Gallimard (collection >), 2005, 395 p., ISBN : 2-07-030914-2. L'ouvrage de Jean-Marie Pernot se detache heureusement dans 1' abondante documentation relative aux relations...

Guide pratique de l'arbitrage de grief au Quebec.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Guide pratique de l'arbitrage de grief au Quebec, par Jean-Serge MASSE, Cowansville : Editions Yvon Blais, 2005, 160 p., ISBN: 2-89451-899-4. L'auteur presente un guide pratique de l'arbitrage de grief au Quebec. Il s'agit en effet d'un...

American Multinationals in Europe: Managing Employment Relations across National Borders.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... American Multinationals in Europe: Managing Employment Relations across National Borders, edited by Phil ALMOND and Anthony FERNER, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2006, 346 pp., ISBN-10:0-19-927463-0 and ISBN-13: 978-0-19927463-5. This...

Pension Law.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Pension Law, by Ari N. KAPLAN, Toronto: Irwin Law, 2006, 657 pp., ISBN: 1-55221-088-X and ISBN-13: 978-155221-088-8. Pension Law is a highly valuable work which constitutes a sourcebook for those (scholars and practitioners alike) who have...

Restructuring Strategy: New Networks and Industry Challenges.(Book review)
September 22, 2006... Restructuring Strategy: New Networks and Industry Challenges, edited by Karel O. COOL, James E. HENDERSON and Rene ABATE, Malden, MA: Blackwell, 2005, 299 pp., ISBN: 1-4051-2601-9. This book is about corporate strategy. Its thesis is that...

Recent publications/Publications recentes.(labour relations, labour law, labour economics, human resource management, labour equity, occupational safety)(Bibliography)
September 22, 2006... * Relations du travail Labour Relations Nine Years of New Labour: Neo-liberalism and Workers' Rights, Paul Smith and Gary Morton, British Journal of Industrial Relations, 44 (3), 2006, 401-420. Special Issue: Consultation and...

Books received/Livres recus.(Bibliography)
September 22, 2006... AIT-ALI, Belaid et Gerard LESIEUR (SOUS la dir.), Maladies psychiques et vie sociale : reflexions sur l'emploi, Toulouse, OCTARES Editions, 2006, 189 p. ARTHURS, Harry W., Fairness at Work: Federal Labour Standards for the 21st Century,...