Unions have long advocated for a ban on replacement workers, arguing their use unduly shifts power to employers and gives the boss an unfair advantage in collective bargaining.
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We need a new agreement between employers and employees in the B.C. ports that will allow both sides to enjoy the benefits of new workplace technologies.
My research shows that UK price rises are likely to have been caused by high profits, falling wages and weak production over decades
Concerns about the credibility of pay review bodies could boost collective bargaining on worker pay.
Results already in from the first direct leadership election in the UAW’s 88-year history present a sharply divided leadership.
The trade union movement’s proposal to allow ‘multi-employer’ collective bargaining has won crucial support from small business advocates.
Collective bargaining carried out by unions can ultimately benefit employers, not just employees.
Workers, particularly at the beginning of their careers, don’t know their rights in the workplace, and often fear asserting them.
When it comes to dealing with Uber’s difficult working conditions, Uber drivers are on their own.
Lower real living standards now represent the price of being in paid work.
The reasons have a lot to do with the nature of unions as representative of workers’ views, as well as the importance of protecting their right to bargain.
Across the United States, police are shielded from both public and departmental accountability by multiple layers of contractual and legislative protections.
The federal NDP is missing an opportunity to put workers’ rights firmly on the agenda during this election campaign.
Unions should move their focus away from traditional collective bargaining and instead embrace new ways to attract new members, such as by offering discounted benefits and engaging in more advocacy.
Research suggests union membership by default could help reduce income inequality and its associated social ills.
Secure and appropriate compensation for judges is a constitutionally recognized component of judicial independence. Here’s why politics must not be allowed to interfere with it.
Ottawa has ordered postal workers back on the job, but is it constitutional? We should be circumspect about intervening in the bargaining process and skeptical about claims it’s in the public good.
Tech companies overseas are signing collective agreements with their employees. Might Australia be next?
Even with the most favourable laws, unions will still need to confront the reality of a dramatic transformation in the world of work.
Trump has attacked NAFTA, saying that cheap, under-regulated Mexican labor hurts American workers. If he’s right, then NAFTA negotiations could be a chance to push Mexico on workers’ rights.
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Professor of Management, Co-Director of the MIT Sloan Institute for Work and Employment Research, MIT Sloan School of Management
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Distinguished Professor of Workplace Law, RMIT University
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Professor Emeritus of Management, Colorado State University
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Affiliate Research Associate, School of Political and Social Sciences, University of Glasgow
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Professor of Law, Texas A&M University
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Professor of Economics and Political Economy, University of Leeds
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Associate Professor, Smart Systems Group, Heriot-Watt University
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Professor of Management, Faculty of Business and Economics, The University of Melbourne
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Sessional Lecturer, Australian Catholic University
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Senior Lecturer in Management, The University of Melbourne
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Professor, Griffith Business School, Griffith University
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Senior Lecturer in Human Rights, Constitutional Law and Legal Theory, University of Wollongong
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Professor of Economics, Smith College
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Emeritus professor, University of Newcastle
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Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, School of Education, University of Nottingham
