Trade unions and transport

Geraint Harvey and Peter Turnbull

A chapter in Elgar Encyclopedia of Transport and Society, 2025, pp 396-397 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Trade unions represent the interests of their members. In so doing, it is argued that they are either an unnecessary drain on organisational resources or that they make a positive contribution to performance, imposing beneficial constraints on management. Trade unions have faced difficulties in representing workers in the transportation sector because of the changing nature of work relationships at the national level and the problems arising from representing workers within transnational operations that are able to ‘regime shop’. Trade unions continue offer one of the few lines of defence against employers’ pursuit of cost minimisation.

Keywords: Regime shopping; Faces of unionism; Beneficial constraints; Multinational organisations; Globalisation; Transnational legislation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
ISBN: 9781035330515
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