Worker voice in the context of the re-regulation of employment: employer tactics and statutory union recognition in the UK

Robert Perrett
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Robert Perrett: University of Bradford, r.perrett@bradford.ac.uk

Work, Employment & Society, 2007, vol. 21, issue 4, 617-634

Abstract: Since the introduction of the statutory recognition procedure the vast majority of new agreements have been voluntary in nature, yet increasingly employers are using this ambiguous state regulation as a means of avoiding recognition.The legislation allows for the game of voluntarism to be enshrined within the micro level politics and social relationships of work and employment: it crystallizes the culture and history of voluntarism in the regulation itself. It is, in effect, ironic in how it balances change with tradition. It makes the new regulation pliable and difficult to see as a step to a state-led approach.There is a resistant trend to unions generally even if recognition cases may vary in terms of employer orientations.This article focuses on such issues by addressing a broader understanding of regulation through an ethnographic case study analysis.

Keywords: ethnographic; recognition; regulation; union avoidance; voice; voluntarism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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DOI: 10.1177/0950017007082873

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