Workplace Partnership and Employee Voice in the UK: Comparative Case Studies of Union Strategy and Worker Experience

Andy Danford, Michael Richardson, Paul Stewart, Stephanie Tailby and Martin Upchurch
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Andy Danford: University of the West of England
Michael Richardson: University of the West of England
Paul Stewart: University of the West of England
Stephanie Tailby: University of the West of England
Martin Upchurch: University of Middlesex

Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2005, vol. 26, issue 4, 593-620

Abstract: This article addresses the role of ‘employee voice’ in workplace partnership. Drawing on two organizational case studies from the UK’s aerospace sector, it analyses employee experiences of two key dimensions of worker participation in partnership environments: joint consultation and union representation. Specifically, it investigates what consultation and union representation actually mean for employees in the context of different union responses to employer-driven partnership agendas. The article finds predominantly negative patterns of employee experience and attributes this partly to management control strategies and the short-termist dynamic of British manufacturing capital.

Keywords: consultation; employee participation; high performance workplace; partnership; trade unions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2005
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DOI: 10.1177/0143831X05057503

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