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Inaccurate language in media reports about strike action misrepresents how unions work and denies members’ agency.
Recently announced government plans to lift a ban on hiring agency workers have been tried - and failed – as recently as 2015
Strikes have had a negative impact on Nigeria but private universities have benefited.
Increased funding for healthcare system would help the government quell incessant doctors’ strikes .
Sweden electrified at the turn of the 20th century, leading to over 8,000 work stoppages – but the strikers were no Luddites.
Farmers and their supporters are bringing Delhi and other cities to a standstill.
Delivery workers and others who ensure most people don’t have to go outside for essential goods are creating what economic theorists call an uncompensated ‘positive externality.’
Short answer: they don’t. But striking teachers often receive a bit of financial help during a strike from money they themselves have already paid to their unions.
French rail transport is grinding to a halt. Teachers, truck drivers, lawyers and judges are also threatening to strike indefinitely.
Should students get refunds during strike action? An education economist gives his thoughts.
The gradual withdrawal of state support for universities has been the largest, and quietest, privatisation in UK history, and most people don’t even know about it.
The university strikes show how a dispute around a fairly technical employment issue, pensions, can develop a momentum of its own and become a catalyst for a much wider expression of dissatisfaction.
Internal documents reveal how police and government respond to protests or labour disputes that are framed as threats to national security, and how heavily corporations are involved.
The odds are stacked against the striking workers at General Motors. A sociologist who’s studied the decline of the US auto industry explains why.
On Feb. 6, 1919, half of Seattle’s workforce went on strike over a demand for higher wages. A labor historian explains why it matters 100 years later.
Most people think of Martin Luther King Jr. as a civil rights leader who led the nation in addressing the evils of systemic racism. What many don’t know is that he also championed labor unionism.
Ordering Canada’s postal workers back on the job may hurt Justin Trudeau. CUPW could direct its anger directly at the Trudeau Liberals ahead of the 2019 federal election.
Striking 20th-century garment workers wore their best dresses and hats to send a message that they had the right to be taken seriously and have their voices heard.
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.
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Teaching Fellow in Human Resource Management, University of Sussex
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Affiliate Research Associate, School of Political and Social Sciences, University of Glasgow
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Professor of Work and Employment, University of Glasgow
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Associate Professor of Employment Relations, Grenoble École de Management (GEM)
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Associate Professor UTS Centre for Business and Social Innovation, University of Technology Sydney
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WISERD Research Associate, Cardiff University
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Professor of Industrial Relations, University of Wolverhampton
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Professor of Sports Law, Melbourne Law School, The University of Melbourne
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Director of Research and Professor of Educational Leadership and Policy Studies, School of Education, University of Nottingham
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Professor of International Employment Relations, Middlesex University
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Senior Research Fellow, Institute for Transport Studies, University of Leeds
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Professor of Organisation Studies, University of Bristol
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Professor of European Politics and Society, University of Bath
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Professor of Employment Relations and Director of the Work, Organisation and Employment Relations Research Centre (WOERRC), University of Sheffield
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Lecturer in Chinese Studies, University of Nottingham
