Collective Bargaining Beyond the Boundaries of Employment
Collective Bargaining Beyond the Boundaries of Employment

Author: Shae McCrystal

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 38

ISBN-13:

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Labour laws are designed in part to provide workers with adequate minimum labour standards, including access to collective voice and representation in establishing working conditions. They generally focus on 'employees' but an increasing number of workers are not employees. As Judy Fudge has observed, 'the forms of work and numbers of workers outside the scope of labour law has proliferated'. For example, in highly developed countries, self-employment ranges from 'freelance professionals to women who provide childcare in their homes, and to men who drive trucks or operate franchises for a living'. Collective bargaining laws that only empower 'employees' (which may be narrowly defined) to organise and bargain as a collective may leave many workers subject to more restrictive rules of contract, commercial and competition law. This article examines how jurisdictions in Australia and Canada have dealt with the question of collective bargaining by self-employed workers. The article develops a typology of regulatory models, outlining the features of each type of model and considering, in particular, the manner in which these models differ from widely applicable models of employee collective bargaining. It assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the models from the perspective of facilitating worker access to collective bargaining.

Higher Education Collective Bargaining
Higher Education Collective Bargaining

Author: City Univ. of New York, NY. Bernard Baruch Coll. National Center for the Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and the Professions

Publisher:

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13:

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This collection of 17 papers addresses current issues related to collective bargaining in higher education and the professions. The papers include: (1) "The American Academic Model Abroad" (Irwin H. Polishook); (2) "The European Perspective" (Gerd Kohler); (3) "Economic Integration in the North American Region: Implications for Higher Education" (Hugo Aboites); (4) "The Revolution Is Being Televised: Distance Education and the University of Maine System" (Samuel J. D'Amico); (5) "Threats to Tenure: Rhetoric and Reality" (Mary Alice Burgan); (6) "Union Activism: The Response to Regression" (Solomon Barkin); (7) "Public Higher Education Funding in the Jaws of Balanced Budget Conservatism" (William E. Scheuerman and Sidney Plotkin); (8) "Funding Higher Education in a Global Economy" (Christine Maitland); (9) "Fiscal Realities in Higher Education" (Gordon K. Davies); (10) "Dealing with Sexual Harassment in the Academic Environment" (Cynthia Adams); (11) "Sexual Harassment and Academic Freedom: A Faculty Union Perspective" (Judith Anderson); (12) "Sexual Harassment and Academic Freedom" (Ralph S. Brown); (13) "Faculty Collective Bargaining at Historically Black Colleges and Universities" (Stephen L. Finner and Marcella A. Copes); (14) "The Changing Nature of Professionalism: The Case of the Police" (Barbara Raffel Price); (15) "Campus Bargaining and the Law: The Management Perspective" (Susan L. Lipsitz); (16) "Campus Bargaining and the Law: The AAUP's Perspective" (Ann H. Franke); and (17) "Employer Militancy in Professional Sports" (Ira Berkow and Eugene Orza). (MDM)

The Role of Collective Bargaining in the Global Economy
The Role of Collective Bargaining in the Global Economy

Author: Susan Hayter

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2011-01-01

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1849809836

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The book examines the ways in which collective bargaining addresses a variety of workplace concerns in the context of today.s global economy. Globalization can contribute to growth and development, but as the recent financial crisis demonstrated, it also puts employment, earnings and labourstandards at risk. This book examines the role that collective bargaining plays in ensuring that workers are able to obtain a fair share of the benefits arising from participation in the global economy and in providing a measure of security against the risk to employment and wages. It focuses on a commonly neglected side of the story and demonstrates the positivecontribution that collective bargaining can make to both economic and social goals. The various contributions examine how this fundamental principle and right at work is realized in different countries and how its practice can be reinforced across borders. They highlight the numerouschallenges in this regard and the critically important role that governments play in rebalancing bargaining power in a global economy. The chapters are written in an accessible style and deal with practical subjects, including employment security, workplace change and productivity and working time.

Negotiating Our Way Up Collective Bargaining in a Changing World of Work
Negotiating Our Way Up Collective Bargaining in a Changing World of Work

Author: OECD

Publisher: OECD Publishing

Published: 2019-11-18

Total Pages: 270

ISBN-13: 9264362576

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Collective bargaining and workers’ voice are often discussed in the past rather than in the future tense, but can they play a role in the context of a rapidly changing world of work? This report provides a comprehensive assessment of the functioning of collective bargaining systems and workers’ voice arrangements across OECD countries, and new insights on their effect on labour market performance today.