Union representation, collective voice and job quality: An analysis of a survey of union members in the UK finance sector

Kim Hoque, John Earls, Neil Conway and Nick Bacon
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Kim Hoque: Warwick Business School, UK
John Earls: Unite the Union, UK
Neil Conway: School of Management, Royal Holloway University of London, UK
Nick Bacon: Cass Business School, City University London, UK

Economic and Industrial Democracy, 2017, vol. 38, issue 1, 27-50

Abstract: This article seeks to identify whether employee perceptions of job quality are better in instances where an onsite union representative is present. It also seeks to identify whether the relationship between onsite representative presence and job quality is explained by employee perceptions of union collective voice. The analysis, based on a survey of union members in the UK finance sector, demonstrates that employee perceptions of several dimensions of job quality are better where an onsite representative is present, and that this can be explained by the higher perceptions of union collective voice that onsite representatives engender.

Keywords: Collective voice; finance sector; job quality; trade unions; union representative (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1177/0143831X14555707

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