Employee Relations: Volume 9 Issue 1

Why Nothing Much has Changed:: Recession, Economic Restructuring and Industrial Relations since 1979

John MacInnes

Despite high unemployment, a collapse in manufacturing output and employment, a government‐engineered fall in international competitiveness that has resulted in an unprecedented…

Contract Caterers and Public Sector Catering

Clare Kelliher, Steve McKenna

The impact of Government moves to put public sector catering out to competitive tender will severely affect some relationships between public sector catering management and staff…

Industrial Restructuring and Union Density:: The Experience in One Large Corporation

P.B. Beaumont

Between 1977–1985, total employment in one United Kingdom corporation, which initially had 20,000 employees with an overall trade union density of 65 per cent, fell by 45 per…

Computerising: Lessons from the DHSS Pensions Strike

Leslie Willcocks, David Mason

Personnel specialists from both employers and unions should be given, or, if necessary, should seize influential roles in the planning and implementing stages of computerisation…

Pension Funds in the UK — Danger Ahead?

Bernard Foley

Three major sources of danger threaten UK pension rights and/or expectations of scheme members — “pension holidays” or a rebate of contributions by the firm, the winding‐up of a…