Union Responses to Restructuring and the Growth of Contingent Labour in the Irish Telecommunications Sector

Robert MacKenzie
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Robert MacKenzie: Leeds University Business School

Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2009, vol. 30, issue 4, 539-563

Abstract: This article explores union responses to subcontracting in the context of the Irish telecommunications sector. Through a longitudinal case study the development of strategy is traced over a number of years as the union moved away from a policy of exclusion towards one of engagement. As the findings show, a three-tiered approach brought successes in terms of the retention and recruitment of workers on non-standard contracts. Yet this brought tensions over the role of the union in the regulation of the subcontracting process.

Keywords: atypical employment; contingent work; deregulation of industrial relations; restructuring; telecommunications; trade unions (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1177/0143831X09342626

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