Union responses to restructuring and the growth of contingent labour in the Irish telecommunications sector
Economic and Industrial Democracy
2009
30
4
November
539-563
case study ; industrial restructuring ; labour relations ; precarious employment ; telecommunications ; trade union attitude
Industrial economics
English
Bibliogr.
"This article explores union responses to subcontracting in the context of the Irish telecommunications sector. Through a longitudinal case study the development of strategy is traced over a number of years as the union moved away from a policy of exclusion towards one of engagement. As the findings show, a three-tiered approach brought successes in terms of the retention and recruitment of workers on non-standard contracts. Yet this brought tensions over the role of the union in the regulation of the subcontracting process."
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