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"Bargaining sequences, though vital to the real-world business strategies, are often treated as exogenously given. We examine bargaining sequences in the setting where a downstream firm makes a merger decision with an upstream partner and faces a negotiation with a union. When the downstream firm's power in the wage bargaining is weak, separation results and the input price bargaining proceeds prior to the wage bargaining. When the downstream firm's power in both negotiations is relatively equal, firms opt for separation and both negotiations keep on simultaneously. When the downstream firm's power in the wage negotiation is strong, the firms merge."

"This article discusses local trade union power in labour adjustment processes within the Nordic systems of industrial relations by comparing labour adjustment processes in construction and manufacturing in Finland and Norway. The quality of cooperative relations and the conditions for exchange – through co-decision mechanisms and procedures, as well as rules for temporary lay-offs and dismissal selections – are essential for union influence. Together with production technologies, the organization of work and employee competence, such institutions and regulations interact in influencing union power, providing more influence to the unions in the Norwegian cases than the Finnish ones, while the unions in the manufacturing cases were more influential than those in construction. "

"Galten Gewerkschaften lange Zeit als Reformbremsen, erfahren sie heute eine steigende Akzeptanz und sind zu gefragten Gesprächspartnern der Politik geworden. Die größte Einzelgewerkschaft IG Metall verzeichnet Mitgliedergewinne, stattliche Tarifabschlüsse führen zu Reallohnzuwächsen. Dieses Comeback der Gewerkschaften koinzidiert ausgerechnet mit der schwersten Wirtschaftskrise der Nachkriegszeit. Die Autoren erörtern die Frage, ob die gewerkschaftliche Erneuerung eine nachhaltige Entwicklung ist. Neben betrieblichen Praktiken betrachten sie die Wiederbelebung gewerkschaftlichen Interessenhandelns im internationalen Vergleich."

"Le pouvoir est au coeur des débats actuels sur l'avenir du syndicalisme. Le présent article fournit un cadre d'évaluation des ressources de pouvoir et des aptitudes stratégiques pour le renforcement des capacités d'action syndicales. Les auteurs identifi ent quatre ressources fondamentales de pouvoir : la solidarité interne, l'ancrage dans des réseaux, les ressources discursives qui encadrent les approches et les actions des syndicats et les ressources d'infrastructure (matériel, ressources humaines, processus, politiques et programmes). Les ressources seules ne suffi sent pas. Les syndicats doivent également être capables de les utiliser. Les auteurs identifi ent quatre aptitudes stratégiques : la médiation entre des intérêts en jeu afi n de favoriserune action commune et d'activer les réseaux, l'encadrement, l'articulation d'actions dans le temps et dans l'espace et l'apprentissage. Une expérimentation et une recherche accrues sur les interactions entre ces ressources et ces capacités dans des contextes particuliers sont nécessaires pour approfondir notre compréhension du renouveau du pouvoir syndical."

"The second in The Future of Trade Unions in Britain series, this book covers the variety of ways in which unions are trying to revitalize themselves. There is a strong emphasis on organizing new workplaces and fresh evidence on the responses of employers to union presence. The impact of partnerships with employers, both in private and public sectors, is explored and so too are union innovations in structure, including use of the internet. An exciting new contribution.
Synopsis
How have unions responded to the decline of membership and power that began in 1980? Have unions been able to use New Labour legislation to recover lost membership? What are the pros and cons of union-management partnerships in the public sector? Union Organization and Activity is the second book in our innovative The Future of Trade Unions in Britain series. Featuring substantial and original research on union strategies, this book offers readers a detailed analysis of the opportunities and problems faced by unions in using the new trade union recognition law. Offering new research on union strategies this is a book that will enrich policy debates with much needed evidence. Topics covered include: organizing campaigns across different sectors and their relative successes and failures; the TUC's Organizing Academy; public sector unions strategies including the use of partnership agreements; the structure of trade unionism as a potential barrier to union revitalization; costs and benefits for employers of recognizing unions ..."

"This article explains variation in the extent to which high skill, high wage workers are able to defend their job security in services-based production regimes. It compares two cases of downsizing at German multinational technology firms in the early 2000s, and shows how workers can protect their jobs against employer threats by building power in the workplace. I find that tech workers mobilize against downsizing when they creatively redeploy management's discourse to demonstrate the potential effectiveness of collective action in a discourse that resonates with their occupational identity as technical experts. Highlighting the significance of discursive strategies to worker power in the information technology sector advances research on the comparative political economy of liberalization, which tends to view weak labor as a structural characteristic of the knowledge economy. While the transition from manufacturing- to services-led growth has weakened labor, with union density declining and national institutions becoming less effective, successful resistance to downsizing demonstrates that these historical developments relocate and recast workers' power resources, rather than destroy them outright. This article focuses on political struggle in the workplace to offer empirical evidence that workers can develop considerable power even when they lack access to labor's traditional resources."

"Deux évènements majeurs marquent l'histoire syndicale récente aux États-Unis : une vague ininterrompue d'implantations syndicales au sein de la chaine de cafés Starbucks depuis décembre 2021 et l'implantation en avril 2022 d'un syndicat indépendant dans l'un des plus gros entrepôts d'Amazon à New York. Ces évènements confirment l'émergence d'un renouveau de l'activisme syndical, animé par une nouvelle génération de militantes et de militants soucieux de prendre eux-mêmes en charge leur destin sur les lieux de travail. Mais suffiront-ils à enrayer le déclin du syndicalisme ?"

"En septembre, le parti d'extrême droite Freiheitliche Partei Österreichs (FPÖ) pourrait accéder à la chancellerie. Les récentes élections des chambres des travailleurs sont alors vues comme des tests. L'extrême droite y fait désormais jeu égal avec la démocratie chrétienne. Si elle peine à s'implanter dans le syndicat, l'adhésion syndicale ne protège cependant plus du vote à l'extrême droite. Son retour au pouvoir pourrait alors menacer l'existence même des chambres des travailleurs, qui constituent le cœur du pouvoir syndical."