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Smale, Robert George. "Trade union identities and the role of niche unionism : exploring contemporary United Kingdom trade unions". Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 2017. https://researchportal.port.ac.uk/portal/en/theses/trade-union-identities-and-the-role-of-niche-unionism(1f450289-63f8-45ad-9467-70c0b539611b).html.
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This thesis explores three closely related questions in order to further the understanding of contemporary United Kingdom trade unionism and make an original contribution to knowledge. The first relates to understanding the distinct identities which trade unions project in the public domain. The second relates to those trade unions that display what will be called a niche union identity in order to organise a sector of the labour market, and which are therefore axiomatically not general in character. The third relates to what will be called niche unionism, which is a broader concept incorporating those unions that seek to organise niches through sectionalised structures. The work both acknowledges extant literature and advances knowledge in the field of industrial relations, and draws upon contributions from other disciplines where these inform the intellectual discussion. It is argued that existing theoretical approaches are inadequate for understanding the identities projected by contemporary UK Certified trade unions, and that the concept of niche in relation to trade unions has received minimal consideration in industrial relations literature. Therefore it is argued that a new conceptual framework is required. The methodological approach adopted was empirical pragmatism, with data being collected using mixed methods. The work was limited to certified unions operating within the United Kingdom and to data collected between October 2008 and August 2015. The work makes an original contribution to knowledge by introducing a multidimensional framework for the analysis of trade union identities based upon a limited number of ‘primary’ and ‘secondary’ sources that determine the territories within which unions organise, together with certain ‘additional’ sources. This framework then facilitates the recognition of both niche union identity and the practice of niche unionism.
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Bridgford, J. "French trade unions and the union of the left". Thesis, University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, 1988. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.234393.
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Himarios, Jane Smith. "Determinants of labor union members' satisfaction with their unions". Diss., Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1988. http://hdl.handle.net/10919/53531.
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This study investigates the determinants of union members' satisfaction with their unions. Two theories of member satisfaction are formulated. In the first, satisfaction is hypothesized to be a function of specific union performances. The second theory relates satisfaction to the relationship between unions and their members. Constitutional procedures, in addition to performance, are the predicted determinants of satisfaction.
A set of variables measuring union performance in various areas thought to be important to union members is constructed to test the first theory. In the second theory, labor union constitutions are viewed as explicit contracts between unions and their members, and various constitutional provisions are quantified and used as a set of satisfaction determinants.
Performance variables are found to be the primary determinants of satisfaction, explaining the majority of the measured variation in satisfaction.
The constitutional variables cannot be ignored, however, because when they are combined with performance variables they do contribute significantly, in a statistical sense, to the explanatory power of the union satisfaction model.
It appears that constitutional "contracts" which specify officer removal and officer election procedures do help to solve union members' agency problems and thus increase their satisfaction with their unions.Ph. D.
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Sherwood, Peter. "Withering unions: human resources conspiracies or ineffective unionism?" Thesis, Queensland University of Technology, 1993. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/226978/1/T%28BS%29%20192_Sherwood_1993.pdf.
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The purpose of this study is to investigate the phenomenon of declining trade
union membership density in Australia since the early 1980s. The study looks at
the various possible causes of that decline by attempting to apply the most
important theoretical approaches to industrial relations: unitarism, Marxism,
corporatism and pluralism. It examines the increasingly visible practical
approaches to employee relations generally subsumed under the heading of
Human Resources Management (HRM), and the influence of the New Right
both at the level of individual disputes and in terms of the changing macropolitical
scenarios shaping up for industrial relations in Australia in the 1990s.
All these influences will be borne in mind in examining a case study of an
industrial dispute in the Queensland tourism industry in the 1980s, in which
the union effectively self-destructed.
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Rubushe, Melikaya. "Trade union investment schemes: a blemish on the social movement unionism outlook of South African unions?" Thesis, Rhodes University, 2010. http://hdl.handle.net/10962/d1003119.
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South African trade unions affiliated to Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) have taken advantage of the arrival of democracy and newly found opportunities available through Black Economic Empowerment to venture into the world of business by setting up their own investment companies. The declared desire behind these ventures was to break the stranglehold of white capital on the economy and to extend participation in the economic activities of the country to previously disadvantaged communities. Using the National Union of Mineworkers and the Mineworkers’ Investment Company as case studies, this dissertation seeks to determine whether unions affiliated to the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) are advancing the struggle for socialism through their investment schemes. Secondly, the dissertation determines whether, in the activities of the schemes, internal democracy is preserved and strengthened. The theoretical framework of this dissertation emerges from arguments advanced by Lenin and Gramsci on the limitations of trade unions in terms of their role in the struggle against capitalism. In addition, the argument draws on the assertions by Michels regarding the proneness of trade union leadership to adopt oligarchic tendencies in their approach to leadership. Of interest is how, according to Gramsci, trade unions are prone to accepting concessions from the capitalist system that renders them ameliorative rather than transformative. Drawing from Michels’ ‘iron law of oligarchy’, the thesis examines whether there is space for ordinary members of the unions to express views on the working of the union investment companies. By looking at the extent to which the investment initiatives of the companies mirror the preferences of the ordinary members of the unions, one can determine the level of disjuncture between the two. The study relies on data collected through interviews and documentary material. Interviews provide first-hand knowledge of how respondents experience the impact of the investment schemes. This provides a balanced analysis given that documents reflect policy stances whereas interviews provide data on whether these have the stated impact. What the study shows is a clear absence of space for ordinary members to directly influence the workings of union investment companies. It is also established that, in their current form, the schemes operate more as a perpetuation of the capitalist logic than offering an alternative system.
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Oh, Wonsun. "Craft versus industrial unions : union organization within the work place". Connect to resource, 1989. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view.cgi?acc%5Fnum=osu1262877143.
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Alderton, Tony. "Trade unions and Japanisation". Thesis, University of Bristol, 1998. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.266998.
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Kgapola, Leslie Seth. "Trade unions service level and member satisfaction". Thesis, University of Pretoria, 2017. http://hdl.handle.net/2263/62678.
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Trade unions are juristic entities and volitional associations that have, historically and ideologically, represented the aggregate strength of labour to maximise their effectiveness in their endeavour to fulfil their core responsibilities and principal functions. However, Ceronie (2007) postulates that, in South Africa, there has been a loss of ideological support for unions since the dawn of democracy. The establishment of the democracy had the effect that a huge driving gear to belong to a union was lost. The mandate of trade unions is to, inter alia, protect, maintain, and improve the working conditions of their members. They fulfil this mandate by ensuring that they offer services that meet, if not exceed, members' satisfaction levels. Trade unions ultimately exist to protect both the work- and non-work-related interest of their members, whether these be economic, social, political, or environmental (Venter, 2003). Nel et al. (2005) asseverate that trade unions are membership organisations: They exist because of their members, they are made up of members, they serve their members' interest, and they are governed by their members. That is, they derive their authority and mandate from the members. Therefore, trade union are service providers. They must give employees enough reason to become attracted to them as members and to remain members. Simply put, trade unions, as the embodiment of workers' aspirations, owe a duty of care to their members, and thus should at all times, act in their best interests. Thus, the kind and quality of services offered by trade unions should be perceived by members as sufficient and satisfactory. Highly satisfied and committed union members are more likely to support and participate in trade union activities. Trade unions, like any other organisation that provides services, are faced with challenges of membership decline due to perceived poor services or the lack thereof, and are therefore required to devise remedial measures to mitigate the membership decline. Against the backdrop of the foregoing, the aim of the study was to examine if there is a relationship between the quality of services and benefits offered by unions to their members and member satisfaction. The sample comprised members of the three major unions within the public service of South Africa. Using the quantitative paradigm, primary empirical data were collected by distributing 500 questionnaires, which yielded a 48.9% response rate. Data were analysed using the SPSS Statistics 23 software program. The questionnaire was valid and reliable, with an overall scale reliability coefficient of α = .975. The findings revealed moderate levels of member satisfaction (56%) with low dissatisfaction (16%), and a significantly high participation rate in union activities (61%), and union effectiveness (80%). That is, the findings revealed that members were generally satisfied with their unions' performance. The findings affirm union instrumentality, union effectiveness, and member participation as antecedents of union commitment, and also confirm unions' performance and effectiveness as significant determinants of members' satisfaction with a union. Therefore, in a quest to maintain and/or increase their relevance, trade unions must examine their current services and benefits, in order to determine whether they still meet their members' preferences, and, if not, to develop and provide a new service mix that will not only appeal to unionised members, but will also attract non-unionised workers.Thesis (PhD)--University of Pretoria, 2017.
Human Resource Management
PhD
Unrestricted
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Lee, Fa-Hsien. "Trade unions and privatisation in Taiwan : a case study of the railway union". Thesis, Cardiff University, 2008. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/55757/.
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This thesis explores Taiwanese privatisation in the context of global neo-liberalisation. It is a study of the relationship between the state, capital and trade unions in relation to privatisation and the policy-making process in Taiwan and the Taiwan Railway in particular. It pays attention to exploring the three dimensions: first, how the state plays its role in the privatisation process second, what private capital does in order to extend its financial interests and third, whether trade unions have capacity to shape privatisation policies. The thesis draws upon extensive fieldwork that took place in Taiwan and the Taiwanese railway industry in particular between May 2005 and November 2007. It documents how Taiwanese public sector unions, dependent on the party-state system, sought to transform themselves into independent unions during the period of privatisation. Using qualitative and participant observation methods, including semi- structured interviews, fieldnote taking, and documentary analysis, this thesis provides, for the first time first-hand, rich, deep, holistic and contextual data on issues that had previously been hidden from public debate. These are discussed and analysed with particular reference to British and former Soviet Union's experience in the context of privatisation. Although the research was explicitly located in the context of Taiwan and the Taiwan Railway, it is hoped that it has more general significance. Taiwan's experience, until now neglected in debates on privatisation, could extend contemporary debates on the topic especially in relation to the various roles of the state, capital and trade unions. In particular, it raises for discussion the finding that under certain circumstances, instead of being marginalised by privatisation, certain trade unions could gain strong bargaining capacity, weakening the role of the state and private capital, and significantly shaping the policy process.
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Obel, Camilla. "Unions, Leagues and Franchises: The Social Organisation of Rugby Union in New Zealand". Thesis, University of Canterbury. Sociology and Anthropology, 2001. http://hdl.handle.net/10092/914.
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The thesis analyses the amateur game of rugby union by focussing upon the struggles for control between national and local unions and players. Using historical material and interviews with administrators, current players in the New Zealand national team, the All Blacks, and Canterbury, a local provincial union, I show how the game of rugby union consolidated as the national game. I follow these actors through the shift to a global professional game sponsored by television networks and show how the local advantages in the New Zealand game come to be reconfigured in this context.
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Bairstow, Samantha Jane. "'Outing the unions' : sexual identity, membership diversity and the British trade union movement". Thesis, University of Portsmouth, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.416229.
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Recent years have seen British trade unions regain some of the membership and influence lost during the 1980s and 1990s. During the same period, sexual orientation activism and other 'new' social movements have become increasingly prominent on the world stage. This thesis is an empirical examination of British unions' responses to the issues, concerns and priorities of lesbian and gay workers seeking to further their agendas through collective action. In response to the paucity of academic research in this area, this thesis presents an analysis of six unions' attempts to organise and represent diverse lesbian and gay interests within class-focused bureaucratic structures. Establishing a context for this study, the thesis considers historical and contemporary accounts of union organisation, the fusion of class with status-based identities and examples of gender, 'race' and disability action within British trade unions. Through interviews with key actors, the research uncovers the existence of separate 'safe spaces' for lesbian and gay organisation, structures connecting action to 'mainstream' activities, and top-down initiatives designed to promote acceptance of organisational diversity. This thesis examines anticipated 'pockets of resistance' within the unions to sexuality action, but finds the bureaucratic and hierarchic nature of union organisation a larger barrier to the effectiveness of action than any internal opposition. The need to recognise intra-group diversity and the dangers of centralised 'servicing' to the unions' future plans are discussed, in light of contemporary trends towards workplace organisation, partnership and the requirement to address members' heterogeneous needs, as are the questions such an analysis raises for conceptualisations of democratic practice. Through the examination of the unions' organisation of sexual minorities, this thesis refines and extends Kelly's (1998) mobilisation theory and presents an alternative framework of trade union action as 'mobilisation within mobilisation'. It closes by considering the implications for both social movements and continued union 'renewal' of organised labour's attempts to negotiate 'the bigger picture'.
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Egan, Noomi. "Communicating the Union: an examination of how three trade unions communicate with youth". Thesis, Malmö högskola, Fakulteten för kultur och samhälle (KS), 2016. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-21205.
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This thesis examines how trade unions are meeting the two-fold challenge of a fall in youth unionisation and a changed media usage amongst youth. The researcher attempts to answer this question by examining how three different trade unions (Sveriges Ingenjörer, SI, Kommunal and Hotell och Restaurang facket, HRF) are communicating with a younger generation for the purpose of recruiting them. The thesis is based on a theoretical framework derived from communications theories and practices specifically aimed at youth, as well as theories about union recruitment strategies, civic engagement and the logic of collective action (since unions represent collective interests). The researcher has applied a qualitative approach where the thesis rests on in-depth interviews with different respondents. The findings of the thesis reveal that all the unions have started to face up to the challenge of falling youth unionisation (by applying the advice put forward in literature on youth and health communications, and union recruitment literature). However, the findings note that the unions have applied the advice to varying extent, with Sveriges Ingenjörer being furthest ahead. In addition, the findings illustrate that the unions seem to be responding to the challenge of a changing media usage amongst youth. Yet, the researcher believes that the unions might do well in exploring a more participatory style of communication, since youth today have started to expect a higher degree of participation in their communication online. The findings also highlight that both Kommunal and HRF seem to be facing tougher challenges than Sveriges Ingenjörer in communicating with youth for the purposes of recruiting them because of differences between the sectors the unions organise.Finally, the findings reveal that the unions communicate with youth in accordance with Olson’s theory of logic of collective action (Congleton, 2015), which highlights that individuals will only join a union if there is an individual gain to offset the union fee.
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Martin, John Robert. "Amalgamation, Organising and Centralisation: A Study of Three Australian Unions". Thesis, Griffith University, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10072/366847.
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The research question discussed below was prompted by an observation of some, but by no means all, Australian unions seeking to centralise a number of functions in their federal office. Several countervailing factors impact upon the propensity of unions to centralise functions, which leads to some secondary research questions. The primary research question that this thesis seeks to answer is what has given rise to the centralisation of functions within three Australian unions?
The question is asked in the context of declining union membership in Australia and most other developed economies (Bodman 1998; Dabscheck 1995; Jerrard and Le Queux 2013; Peetz 1998; Sappey et al 2006; Watson et al 2003). The decline in union membership is of concern to many industrial relations scholars (Boyer 1995; Bramble 1995; Bramble 2001; Conrow and Delp 1999; Cooper 2001; Hyman 2004; Juravich and Bronfenbrenner 1998:281; Peetz 1998:175; Peetz, Pocock and Houghton 2007; Simms and Holgate 2008; Voss and Sherman 2000:311; Wooden 2000) and is quite obviously of significant concern to the labour movement (ACTU 2001). It is for this reason that the question is significant, whether the centralisation of functions and powers is of assistance, or is counter-productive to other union renewal strategies. Arising out of the Primary Research Question, there are a range of secondary questions.Thesis (PhD Doctorate)
Doctor of Philosophy (PhD)
Griffith Business School
Griffith Business School
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Murray, Gregor. "Trade unions and incomes policies : British unions and the social contract in the 1970s". Thesis, University of Warwick, 1985. http://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/39312/.
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This is an investigation of the trade union role in the Social Contract incomes policies in Britain during the 1970s. In the context of the general political economy of the period, the study looks at the development in the early 1970s of an accord between the Trades Union Congress (TUC) and the Labour Party known as the Social Contract, examines the trade union participation in the series of voluntary incomes policies that followed the election of the Labour Government in 1974, and charts the development or opposition to such participation oulminating in the collapse of the policy in the winter of 1978-1979 and the subsequent defeat of the Labour Government in the 1979 general election. More specifically, the study focuses on the experience of six individual unions within the context of TUC policy-making: the articulations between their approaches to incomes policy and their collective bargaining policies, the anatomy of their responses and policies towards the various phases of the Social Contract, the mobilization of consent and/or opposition to TUe and Government policy in each union, and the limits placed on relative union leadership discretion to participate in TUC policy-making by the political and industrial processes and organizational structure of each union. The research has involved a variety of sources and methods. First, there has been an attempt to draw on and link the diverse areas of the industrial relations literature which are concerned with the relationship between trade Unions and incomes policies. These include the separate literatures on incomes policy, on the link between trade unions and the Labour Party and Labour governments, on trade union government and the sociology of trade union organizations, and on the debate over 'corporatist' types of arrangements between trade unions and the state. Secondly, the research has involved the use of a wide range of primary and secondary trade union and political documentary sources on this period of history through the 1970s. Finally, the detailed case studies of the six sample unions have involved both primary documentary materials and extensive interviewing. Thus, the materials collected for the study constitute a unique source on different approaches to the 1970s pay policies, on their industrial impact and the political processes that they engendered within individual unions, and on the broader relations between British trade unions and the state during this period. The theoretical contribution of the study is primarily exploratory in nature. It identifies the constraints to which national union leaderships are· subject when they engage or attempt to engage in macro-economic and political exchanges with the state. Such constraints are explored in an examination of the upwards and downwards mediations that occur within trade unions as illustrated by the variations within and between trade unions in the mobilization of consent and opposition to the Social Contract incomes policies. This analysis informs debates about the limits and/or viability of other corporatist or 'Social Contract' types of arrangements. It also investigates the organizational implications of voluntary incomes policies and compares the internal political processes and industrial practices of British trade unions: at the level of the TUC as a whole, within individual affiliates and, in partiCUlar, in the articulations between TUC and individual union policy-making and bargaining behaviour.
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Jones, John D. (John David). "Social-structural and Election Level Determinants of the Outcome of Union Certification Elections, 1981-1990". Thesis, University of North Texas, 1992. https://digital.library.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metadc332495/.
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The purpose of this research is to identify major factors that can be used to explain and predict the process of growth in union membership as represented by union victories in certification elections. The emphasis of this research is on organization and social-structural level factors. The logistic regression procedure reveals that organization level variables are most significant in explaining union victories in certification elections. Among the organization level variables, Unit Size, as defined by the NLRB, is the most significant variable in each year of the study and across all industrial classifications.
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Prehoda, Lauren. "Teacher unions and student achievement". CONNECT TO ELECTRONIC THESIS, 2007. http://dspace.wrlc.org/handle/1961/4158.
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Gilles, Patrick. "Fiscal insurance in monetary unions /". Berlin : Dissertation.de, 2006. http://www.gbv.de/dms/zbw/515604461.pdf.
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Scott, Aisling M. "The Efficiency of Credit Unions". Scholarship @ Claremont, 2012. http://scholarship.claremont.edu/cmc_theses/348.
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The objective of this paper is to explain the variation in efficiency of credit unions over the past decade. This study creates an evaluation metric for credit union performance by using a nonparametric technique called data envelopment analysis (DEA). Efficiency is based on the credit unions ability to maximize the members’ benefits by providing adequate loans and savings accounts at low prices while minimizing the resources used. The sample consists of 704 credit unions from 2001 to 2010. Several environmental characteristics were found to influence efficiency. The findings demonstrate evidence for economies of scale as number of members, average savings size, and total assets all positively influence efficiency. The results also indicate that federal charter, number of branches, share of real estate loans, and average loan size negatively correlate with efficiency.
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Quinn, Barry Patrick. "Performance of Irish credit unions". Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2013. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.602930.
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This thesis is an exposition of the structural fragilities of the Irish credit union Movement focusing on relative performance and ICT technology adoption. To date Irish credit unions have evolved to a transitional stage of development and still embody a strong cooperative ethos with optimal membership value at is core. The evolution of the Irish credit union industry has stalled as the economic fallout from the Irish banking crisis has highlighted poor operating practices and their development as an industry has stagnated. In Ireland regulatory inadequacies have exacerbated poor investment decisions and loan book mismanagement in cred it unions. This has resulted in an escalation in loan arrears and losses in both investments and bad debt. Stagnation can also be partly attributed to the failure to create a common ICT platform, resulting in individual credit unions pursuing incompatible ICT solutions. The recent Commission Report provided Irish credit unions with a set of responses to these fragilities, two of which, sector restructuring and shared services through ICT adoption, are the themes of this thesis. The empirical analysis uses a novel panel dataset for the period 2002•2010 to firstly identify the sector's strengths and weakness by measuring a credit unions performance relative to some 'best practice' idea. Then using unique survey data, the diffusion of ICT technology, in the form of a website to provide information and services, is investigated to identify the determinants of adoption and its effects on a credit unions cost and performance over the period.
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Gutiérrez, Rufrancos Héctor Elías. "What do Mexican unions do?" Thesis, University of Sussex, 2017. http://sro.sussex.ac.uk/id/eprint/68412/.
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Solheid, Lacey. "Building community in student unions". Kansas State University, 2014. http://hdl.handle.net/2097/17391.
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Master of ScienceDepartment of Special Education, Counseling and Student Affairs
Christy Craft
For just over 100 years, student unions have served college campuses across the United States. These buildings have changed and progressed over time to offer services to fit the needs of students. Recently, the concept of community building has become increasingly more important to higher educational institutions. Student unions are at the very center of community building on college campuses. This report looks at one model of community building and offers design elements union administrators need to be aware of when designing student union spaces.
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KADLECK, COLLEEN. "POLICE UNIONS: AN EMPIRICAL EXAMINATION". University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK, 2001. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin997187643.
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Bagci, Abdullah. "Application Of Total Quality Management In Teacher Unions From The Perspectives Of Union Members". Master's thesis, METU, 2009. http://etd.lib.metu.edu.tr/upload/12611116/index.pdf.
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APPLICATION OF TOTAL QUALITY MANAGEMENT IN TEACHER UNIONS FROM THE PERSPECTIVES OF UNION MEMBERS
Bagci, Abdullah
M.S., Department of Educational Administration and Planning
Supervisor: Prof. Dr. Hasan SimSek
September 2009, 123 pages
The purpose of this study is to contribute to the understanding of the functioning of teacher unions and provide feedback to union managements, members of the unions, teachers, academics and education officials concerning TQM applications in teacher unions by investigating the implementation degree of TQM principles in teacher unions in Ankara. Several studies have been done on the implementation of TQM in the field of education mainly for state/private schools and state/private universitiesnevertheless, no researches have been carried out regarding TQM applications in teacher unions which is an important stakeholder in Turkish education system with more than 400.000 members. A Total Quality Management Questionnaire was developed by the researcher based on the existing literature on basic TQM principles to be applied to union members in state schools in Ankara. Descriptive statistics and Mann-Whitney U test were used to analyze the data obtained. The results revealed no difference between Egitim-Sen and Tü
rk Egitim-Sen members&rsquo
perceptions concerning the application of 38 TQM proposals in their unions. However, Mann-Whitney U results yielded significant differences on the application of 16 TQM proposals included in the questionnaire. Descriptive statistics results also revealed that more than half of the union members were not aware whether the TQM proposals were applied in their unions or not and about 40% of the members participated in the study perceive that TQM principles are implemented in their unions. Keywords: Total Quality Management, Teacher Unions, Egitim-Sen and Tü
rk Egitim-Sen
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Parodi, G. "Microeconomic approach to the analysis of trade unions affiliated to the Trades Union Congress". Thesis, University of York, 1985. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.356151.
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Badinger, Harald, i Kemal Türkcan. "Currency unions, export margins, and product differentiation: an empirical assessment for European Monetary Union". Wiley, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/roie.12094.
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This paper reconsiders the trade effects of the euro, providing a decomposition into its effects on the extensive margin and intensive margin. Furthermore, it relates the more disaggregated estimates for 93 two-digit HS product groups to the elasticity of substitution, thereby testing a key hypothesis of recent trade theory. The estimates for the period 1996-2011 suggest a trade effect of the euro of some 28 percent, which has mainly materialized through the intensive margin. For several product groups, we find a negative net effect of the euro on the extensive margin, supporting anecdotal evidence that firms have consolidated their product varieties in response to the elimination of exchange rate variability. Finally, the disaggregated estimates are in line with recent trade theory, suggesting that a large elasticity of substitution dampens the effect of a trade cost reduction on the extensive margin and amplifies its effect on the intensive margin.
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LaFreniere, Peter McNeel. "Social Movement Unionism: Through Teachers Unions' Mobilization in Opposition to Corporate Education Reform". Oberlin College Honors Theses / OhioLINK, 2017. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=oberlin1496425457204444.
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Tai, Hsiao-Hui. "The transition of trade unions in Taiwan : from paternalistic autonomy to responsibility for collective union and non-union representation". Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 2017. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/3545/.
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Paternalistic employment relations have been a tradition supported by the government in Taiwan whilst trade unions were brought in to support political development and economic growth. The government promulgated a ‘harmony culture’ in order to control employment relations, and in the 1980s set up the campaign of the ‘factory as one family, factory as one school’ to encourage employers to inculcate paternalistic beliefs in their employees’ everyday working lives. Authority, benevolence and morality, the characteristics of paternalistic management, make workers docile and loyal to management and stunt the sense of collective identity. This qualitative research selects one primary case, a privatised enterprise SteelCo and its union Steel-U, to conduct participant observation, in-depth interviews with union officers, labour representatives and management, surveys of union members, and documentary analysis of official documents and meeting minutes. One supplementary case is a state-owned enterprise SugarCo with its union Sugar-U; this mainly involved in-depth interviews with union representatives and limited access to some documents. Corporate trade unions take advantage of the paternalistic tradition to gradually develop their organisations as recognised by employers. Implementing nonunion representation is a practice of paternalistic ideology, offering trade unions another platform on which to work with management. Workers identify both themselves and the trade union as parts of the enterprise family rather than seeing the union as an agent of collectivity. The union has to be a service provider offering welfare and benefits to attract members before triggering any mobilisation. To conclude, paternalism has helped corporate trade unions to establish themselves in state-owned and privatised workplaces, and empowered trade unions to engage legitimately, effectively and autonomously in workplace affairs. To revitalise themselves from the paternalistic ideology, trade unions are expected to take the route of partnering unionism with the manipulation of nonunion representation in a top-down process of shaping labour’s collective identity.
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Brown, Karen M. "Trade union international solidarity, exploring the uneven development of grassroots solidarity funds within Canadian unions". Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1999. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk1/tape10/PQDD_0018/MQ49323.pdf.
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Lohe, Tanya. "The changing legitimate ambit of the union movement : politics, trade unions and the new assault /". Title page, contents and abstract only, 1992. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arl833.pdf.
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Goth, P. J. "Issues in credit union corporate governance : a comparative analysis of Canadian and irish credit unions". Thesis, Queen's University Belfast, 2005. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.419436.
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Wildeman, Russell Andrew. "Trade union reaction to privatisation : the case of the congress of South African trade unions". Thesis, Stellenbosch : Stellenbosch University, 2000. http://hdl.handle.net/10019.1/52037.
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Thesis (MPhil)--Stellenbosch University, 2000.ENGLISH ABSTRACT: The assignment examines the policy positions of the Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) on restructuring and privatisation. The assignment's theoretical point of departure is found in the work of Levitsky and Way (1998). Levitsky and Way (1998) examines the alliance between a political party and its labour ally in the context of neo-liberal economic reform. The context is usually a political party that has come to power with the aid of a powerful trade union federation. The authors are interested in establishing if the party-union alliance would be sustained if the political party embarks on drastic economic reforms that have the potential to undermine trade union federations. The two cases that are investigated are Poland and Argentina, because in both these cases, a political party has been swept into power with the aid of a powerful trade union federation. Against the background of neo-liberal economic reforms, both trade union federations initially supported the economic reforms. In the medium and long term however, labour defected from the alliance in Poland, whereas the alliance was sustained in Argentina despite the enormous costs to workers. Levitsky and Way (1998) then posit a number of material and institutional factors that explain both the initial convergence and the later divergence between the two test cases. The factors that are included in this framework are social linkages, party strength, leadership overlap, union competition and the degree of autonomy from either party leadership or the rank-and-file. These factors are hypothesised to explain the policy positions and behaviour of the trade union federation. It is this theoretical framework, which will be tested to establish if the framework permits enough conceptual leverage to explain the past and present policy positions of COSATU on privatisation. These factors have been given prominence because of its actual bearing on the status of the alliance relationship. The present study will therefore be using these factors of the framework, and barring one exception, it will be conceptualised in the same way. The second component of the study is to use the South African National Opinion Leader Survey of 1997/98 to study the actual attitudes and opinions of COSATU leaders on a range of privatisation issues. The survey is going to be used to determine if there is any degree of continuity between formal congress resolutions and the attitudes of COSATU leaders in the survey. This is also an indirect way of verifying the ideological loyalty of leaders to the official positions of the trade union federation. The second question returns to the alliance relationship by examining differences, if any between COSATU and ANC leaders on privatisation related issues. Factor analysis is used to build two indexes, namely a "privatisation index" and a "gear index." An interesting finding from the data is the relatively greater policy cohesion amongst COSATU leaders. These results permit speculations that do not necessarily indicate an imminent breaking up of the alliance, but rather continued discussions with possibly various policy compromises by COSATU and the ANC.
AFRIKAANSE OPSOMMING: Die werkstuk ondersoek die beleidsposisie van die Congress of South African Trade Unions (COSATU) oor herstrukturering en privatisering in Suid Afrika. Die werkstuk se teoretiese uitgangspunt word in die werk van Levitsky en Way gevind (1998). Hierdie skrywers ondersoek die alliansie tussen 'n politieke party en sy arbeidsvennoot in die konteks van neo-liberale ekonomiese hervorming. Die konteks is 'n politieke party wat aan bewind gekom het met die steun van 'n kragtige vakbondfederasie. Die skrywers wil vas stel of die party-vakbond-alliansie sal voortgaan wanneer die politieke party drastiese ekonomiese hervorming aanpak wat die potensiaal het om vakbond federasies te ondermyn. Twee gevalle, naamlik Pole en Argentinië word ondersoek. In albei gevalle het die regerende politieke party aan bewind gekom met die hulp van die vakbond federasie. Teen hierdie agtergrond van neo-liberale hervorming het albei vakbond federasies in Pole en Argentinië aanvanklik die proses gesteun. Gedurende hierdie tydperk het vakbonde in Pole weggebreek van die alliansie, terwyl die alliansie in Argentinië ten spyte van die groot koste vir die werkers voortgesit was. Levitsky en Way (1998) verskaf 'n aantal materiële en institusionele faktore wat die aanvanklike samevloeiing en die latere uiteenvloeiing in hul twee voorbeelde kan verduidelik. Die faktore wat in die ontleding gebruik word is sosiale verbindinge, partysterkte, leierskap oorvleueling, vakbond kompetisie en outonomie van of party leierskap en gewone werkers. Volgens die skrywers se hipotese sal hierdie faktore die beleidsposisies van die vakbond federasie verklaar. Dit is hierdie teoretiese raamwerk wat in die studie gebruik word. Daar word gepoog om vas te stel of hierdie raamwerk genoegsame konseptuele reikwydte het om COSATU se privatiserings beleid te verduidelik. Die tweede komponent van die studie is die gebruik van die Suid Afrikaanse Nasionale Menings Opname van 1997/98. Dit word gebruik om die houdings en die opinies van COSATU leiers oor n breë spektrum van privatiserings kwessies te ondersoek. Die doel is om vas te stel of daar enige graad van kontinuïteit tussen formele kongres resolusies en houdings van COSATU leiers bestaan. Dit is ook 'n manier om die "ideologiese getrouheid" van COSATU leiers te verifieer. Tweedens word daar teruggekeer na die alliansie verhouding deur die verskille tussen ANC en COSATU leiers betreffende privatiserings verwante kwessies te ondersoek. Faktor ontleding word gebruik om twee indekse te bou, naamlik 'n "Privatiserings indeks" en 'n "Gear-indeks". Interessante bevindinge wat dui op 'n groter beleidskohesie by Cosatu-meningsvormers as by ANC-meningsvormers kom na vore. Na aanleiding van bogenoemde model word daar gespekuleer dat hierdie meningspatrone nie noodwendig op 'n uiteenval van die alliansie dui nie, maar eerder op voortgesette gesprekke met verskeie beleidskompromisse by Cosatu sowel as die ANC-leierskap.
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Hur, Chan Y. "Trade unions and productivity: the impact of union presence on labour productivity in Korean manufacturing". Thesis, Aston University, 1991. http://publications.aston.ac.uk/10879/.
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This thesis examines the theoretical and empirical relationship between trade unions and productivity in the Korean auto and cement manufacturing industries, during the 1980s. It challenges the tenets of the existing debate by stressing the contingent nature of this relationship. In particular this thesis pinpoints inadequacies of econometric analysis as the only method of judging this association between union presence and productivity, because this ignores national and historical industrial relations contexts. Moreover, the polarity between positive and negative views of trade union influences on productivity is seen as needlessly limited, failing as it does to consider the full context of labour-management dynamics within the employment relationship. Empirically, this thesis focuses on the unionism and productivity during two contrasting political periods: the first a time of constraint on union action and the second a period of relative freedom. It examines these periods using a full range of quantitative and qualitative analysis. Of particular significant is the inclusion of attitude surveys of the relationship between the presence of unions and productivity conducted amongst workers, managers and trade union officials. The broad conclusion of the thesis is a rejection of the validity of continuing to examine the relationship between trade unions and productivity without locating this within national and historical industrial relations contexts.
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Pille, Peter. "Performance analysis of Ontario credit unions". Thesis, National Library of Canada = Bibliothèque nationale du Canada, 1998. http://www.collectionscanada.ca/obj/s4/f2/dsk2/tape15/PQDD_0004/NQ33913.pdf.
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Murray, Andrew. "Too much power? : Unions or capital /". Title page, abstract and contents only, 1993. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09AR/09arm981.pdf.
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Abu-Ghazalh, Nabilah Hani. "Finiteness conditions for unions of semigroups". Thesis, University of St Andrews, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/10023/3687.
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In this thesis we prove the following: The semigroup which is a disjoint union of two or three copies of a group is a Clifford semigroup, Rees matrix semigroup or a combination between a Rees matrix semigroup and a group. Furthermore, the semigroup which is a disjoint union of finitely many copies of a finitely presented (residually finite) group is finitely presented (residually finite) semigroup. The constructions of the semigroup which is a disjoint union of two copies of the free monogenic semigroup are parallel to the constructions of the semigroup which is a disjoint union of two copies of a group, i.e. such a semigroup is Clifford (strong semilattice of groups) or Rees matrix semigroup. However, the semigroup which is a disjoint union of three copies of the free monogenic semigroup is not just a strong semillatice of semigroups, Rees matrix semigroup or combination between a Rees matrix semigroup and a semigroup, but there are two more semigroups which do not arise from the constructions of the semigroup which is a disjoint union of three copies of a group. We also classify semigroups which are disjoint unions of two or three copies of the free monogenic semigroup. There are three types of semigroups which are unions of two copies of the free monogenic semigroup and nine types of semigroups which are unions of three copies of the free monogenic semigroup. For each type of such semigroups we exhibit a presentation defining semigroups of this type. The semigroup which is a disjoint union of finitely many copies of the free monogenic semigroup is finitely presented, residually finite, hopfian, has soluble word problem and has soluble subsemigroup membership problem.
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Kang, Wuran. "Trade unions, class consciousness and praxis". Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1994. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1251/.
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The aim of this thesis is to explore the ways in which class aspects of trade unions are formed in relation to their organisational properties. To achieve this aim, various assertions on the fundamental role of trade unions are first discussed, and criticised for treating trade unions as organisations that typically react to external stimuli and not as organisations that also generate goals and strategies on their own initiative. Then the focus moves to class consciousness as an effective measure of class capacity of both trade unions and their members, and in doing so, the concept of class consciousness is reformulated to embrace collective and action-oriented aspects of it. Having tested this reformulated concept initially by analysing the comparative characters and capacities of three national unions at different points in time in Korea, a class consciousness scale is developed to measure not only diverse aspects of class consciousness but also qualitatively different levels of it, and such research methods as text analysis and interviews are also employed for the main empirical survey of this thesis. The chief findings include the uneven development of class consciousness within as well as between the individuals, and the conspicuousness of the leadership effect/alliance factor, the less-then impressive effects of gender, size, union age, strike experience, and nationality of ownership on the overall level of class consciousness. Simultaneously, the potentially intriguing implications of the specific influences of those factors on certain aspects of class consciousness are discussed. The thesis is concluded with a recapitulation of the significance of the organisational factors investigated, suggestions on possible directions for further studies, and an urge to study trade unions as class organisations, with the emphasis on both words.
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Grandner, Thomas. "Unions in oligopolistic, vertically connected industries". Inst. für Volkswirtschaftstheorie und -politik, WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, 1999. http://epub.wu.ac.at/1240/1/document.pdf.
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A model of two unionized, vertically connected oligopolistic industries is analyzed. Economic performance, measured by consumer prices, depends on the institutional setting of wage bargaining. Two externalities may occur, namely an integration and a competition externality, which have contrary effects. With decentralized bargaining no externalities can be internalized resulting in low consumer prices. With bargaining at the industry level only the competition externality is internalized resulting in high prices. With centralized bargaining both externalities can be internalized resulting again in low prices. With at least two firms in each industry, the decentralized setting performs best. Performance improves with an increase in the competition of the product markets. (author's abstract)Series: Working Papers Series "Growth and Employment in Europe: Sustainability and Competitiveness"
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Jacob, Nikita. "Marital unions and human capital formation". Thesis, University of Essex, 2017. http://repository.essex.ac.uk/19141/.
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Marriage is one of the most private and critical decisions a person makes in their life. This has far reaching effects on an individual, their average quality of life and most importantly on the lives of their children. The development of young children, in terms of emotional, physical, social and learning skills, has a direct effect on their overall development and on the adults they will become. Comprehending the role played by marital unions and the elements that potentially shape children's human capital formation is intriguing and important, to acquire knowledge on where new initiatives are needed and how to design the optimal policies. This thesis consists of three chapters that all empirically investigate issues related to how families function in different environments, in order to understand the nature, causes and consequences of disparities in children's human capital. The first chapter focuses on India, while the second and third chapters are centred on the United States. Although different environments, different histories, varied cultures and different backgrounds, yet the one common theme of this thesis is the way in which families are rational players within households.
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Al, Musawi Mahmood Zinaddin Salih, i Musawi Mahmood Zinaddin Salih Al. "The Urban Role of College Unions". Thesis, The University of Arizona, 2016. http://hdl.handle.net/10150/622841.
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This research views college unions as social and physical constructs in the urban and cultural context. It argues that their role is broader than a campus territory. Unions are urban artifacts that function to hinge campus environment with the cityscape and which must be grounded to a location, a site, and an urban context. Unions are cultural nodes that interweave different ages, disciplines, and ethnicities in one place. This research also argues that the architecture of unions today has lost its historical intention while embracing a contemporary global approach. The research proposes criteria for future designs to help connect to the historical vision. These criteria were arrived at through investigative processes concerning the historical beginnings of college unions in the US, the chronological evolution of their theme concepts, the nature and scale of their programs, verbal and visual surveys, and interviews with people.The research is linked to a design process through which these criteria are applied, in an attempt, to test their validity through an architectural proposal. While both modes of research must be anchored to a site, they are sited in Portland, Oregon, tied to one of Portland's largest urban developments in a public university, the Oregon Health and Science University (OHSU). The research solidifies its future unions criteria to guide the design process into three core values: Gathering, Diversity, and Heart. Consequently, the process sought to open up the architectural form, in light of these core values, to accommodate public activities as well as private activities, and situate it in a connected urban context that anchors the project to its city/university. The research uses site, program, and regional technology as research topics to approach a synthetic architectural union concept. The research reflects upon the issues that were explored throughout this experiment, other issues that could be explored, and other possibilities that could differently approach union's urban role using the same criteria.
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Pocock, Barbara. "Challenging male advantage in Australian unions /". Title page, contents and abstract only, 1996. http://web4.library.adelaide.edu.au/theses/09PH/09php7409.pdf.
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Cuevas, Anthony Christopher. "Developing a business plan for Media Benefits Corporation: First Entertainment Credit Union's credit union service organization". CSUSB ScholarWorks, 2006. https://scholarworks.lib.csusb.edu/etd-project/2984.
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This project develops and analyzes a business plan for Media Benefits Corporation, a subsidiary of First Entertainment Credit Union. The business plan will address the recent trend to move certain services back to the credit union and make recommendations as to how Media Benefits Corporation should continue to exist. Issues concerning liability will also be addressed in the plan.
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Mapira, L. "Trade unions are 'their own obstacles' unions' responses to undocumented migrant labour in post-apartheid South Africa". Master's thesis, University of Cape Town, 2013. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/3862.
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Mavrikiou, Petros Andreas. "Aspects of European economic integration : the single market and the single currency". Thesis, McGill University, 1995. http://digitool.Library.McGill.CA:80/R/?func=dbin-jump-full&object_id=23724.
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This paper considers two major issues in the evolution of the European Union, the Single Market and the Single Currency. The first chapter deals with the projected effects of the 1992 Programme, and the second chapter deals with the collapse of the Exchange Rate Mechanism of the European Monetary System and examines the prospects for European Monetary Union given this collapse. The third chapter revolves around the concept of Central Banking under Monetary Union and focuses on the European Monetary Institute and the European System of Central Banks. Chapter four presents data regarding the progress of the European Union towards the target of the Single Currency, as well as other macroeconomic indicators.
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Cowgill, Kyler. "Local Teacher Unions and Their Relations with Their Members in a Context of Anti-Union Policies". The Ohio State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=osu1606067396276884.
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Blissett, Edward. "Inside the unions : a comparative analysis of policy-making in Australian and British printing and telecommunication trade unions". Thesis, Cardiff University, 2013. http://orca.cf.ac.uk/45549/.
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This thesis consists of a comparative analysis of policy making in Australian and British telecommunications and printing trade unions. It tests empirically the validity of different models of union policy making and behaviour, whilst also assessing the strength of the research hypothesis, that informal micro-political influences inside unions - such as personal friendships, enmities and loyalties - affect union policy making to a greater extent than is acknowledged in the literature. In order to address the subject the following research questions were posed: How, and why, do unions adopt specific policies? What factors explain the different behaviour of similar unions, when faced with comparable policy choices? To ensure that policies of strategic significance were focused upon, three key areas were selected for study: recruitment, amalgamations and union efforts to influence the labour process. As a former senior union officer I realised that trade unions were often loathe to publically disclose those factors which informed their policy making processes. For this reason a qualitative, interview rich, methodology was adopted, which involved a longitudinal study, in which over 220 officers and staff, of the relevant unions were rviewed. The research revealed that policy making in all the featured unions was a rich and complex process, in which occupational, geographical, ideological and personality based factional groups all had a significant influence on policy makers, along with the institutional and political context within which the unions operated. The empirical evidence also showed that micro-political factors, in particular enmities and personal loyalties, along with the individual beliefs, values and ideologies of policy makers, profoundly influenced their policy choices. Finally the research corroborated the assertion that strategic policy choices, made by trade unions, have a significant affect on their success or failure as organisations.
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Arimany, Serrat Núria. "Anàlisi comptable de les unions temporals d'empreses". Doctoral thesis, Universitat de Barcelona, 2006. http://hdl.handle.net/10803/1253.
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La motivació personal d'aquesta recerca prové d'una part, de l'actual realitat en l'àmbit de les empreses constructores que cada vegada més s'organitzen mitjançant UTE per portar a terme els seus projectes, i per altre part de la meva preferència per la comptabilitat de societats i la recerca d'informació comptable quan les societats mercantils realitzen UTE.La metodologia de la investigació es divideix en dos parts diferenciades:
1. Una part teòrica per estudiar en profunditat la figura de l'UTE.
2. Una part empírica que recull els resultats d'un qüestionari presentat a totes les empreses de la població objecte d'estudi i un anàlisi dels seus estats financers en els exercicis 2001-2003.
Finalment es presenten les conclusions a què s'arriba amb aquesta investigació.
El contingut està estructurat en cinc parts diferenciades:
1. La primera part, conceptual, defineix la figura de l'UTE, el seu origen històric, característiques i objectius. Es tracta de conèixer l'estructura i funcionament d'aquests negocis en participació.
2. La segona part, posiciona la figura de l'UTE dintre del marc jurídic, diferenciant la normativa mercantil i fiscal que afecta a aquesta figura associativa.
3. La tercera part, analitza la problemàtica comptable de les UTE amb especial referència a l'adaptació sectorial de les empreses constructores (PSEC), també en aquesta part es presenten les normes internacionals d'informació financera relacionades amb les UTE i es compara la normativa comptable espanyola, francesa i internacional referida als contractes de construcció.
4. La quarta part, inclou l'estudi empíric mitjançant els resultats obtinguts d'un qüestionari presentat a la població objecte d'estudi i l'anàlisi dels estats financers de la població esmentada. La població objecte d'estudi consta de 30 empreses constructores membres del SEOPAN (Asociación española de empresas constructoras de ámbito nacional) i engloba totes les empreses constructores que cotitzen a les diferents borses espanyoles, és destacable que són empreses que tenen per activitat principal la constructora, tot i que estan diversificant negocis actuant en sectors com l'immobiliari i els serveis. D'altra banda en aquest entorn empresarial es fan diverses fusions, la internacionalització dels mercats és cada vegada més present i aquestes empreses participen en moltes UTE. També és destacable que aquesta població executa la majoria d'obra civil i tota l'exportació espanyola.
5. En la quinta part i última part, es detallen les conclusions.
De la revisió realitzada de les UTE es poden deduir les conclusions següents pel que fa a la imatge fidel de la informació comptable d'aquestes associacions temporals en el sector de la construcció:
· La informació comptable de les UTE que es presenta en els estats financers de les empreses constructores partícips no segueix amb exactitud la normativa comptable del PSEC, concretament la informació de les UTE en la memòria és insuficient i dispersa, amb la conseqüència d'una difícil interpretació econòmica d'aquests negocis conjunts.
· Així doncs, la informació comptable de les UTE hauria de millorar i l'UTE hauria de presentar uns estats financers propis segons la legislació mercantil amb un reglament propi com el que pautava l'article 16.2 de la Llei 18/1982 mai publicat. A tal efecte, la futura reforma comptable espanyola pot ser una bona oportunitat per a introduir una major transparència informativa.
· L'UTE és molt utilitzada en el mon empresarial però és en el sector de la construcció on ha proliferat notablement en els últims anys, de manera que aquest sector punter de l'economia per l'efecte multiplicador sobre les restants activitats econòmiques i per la capacitat generadora d'ocupació ha de ser comptablement fidedigne.
· L'UTE és molt utilitzada per realitzar obra pública, però cal millorar la responsabilitat de l'UTE donant personalitat jurídica pròpia a aquesta associació temporal, doncs desenvoluparia la seva activitat com una unitat econòmica més, amb totes les facultats i responsabilitats pròpies, sotmeses als principis de control jurídic i comptables del resta d'ens jurídics.
· La responsabilitat de l'UTE ha de cobrir suficientment els riscs relacionats amb el tràfic empresarial, mitjançant els avals individualitzats per cada UTE, les corresponents provisions i els informes de responsabilitat social que posteriorment assumeixen les empreses partícips.
· Les empreses partícips en UTE en un 80% utilitzen el mètode del percentatge de realització per valorar l'obra en curs si els ingressos i les despeses es poden estimar raonablement i no hi ha riscs extraordinaris, si no és així el PSEC assenyala utilitzar el mètode del contracte acomplert i aquest no és admès per la NIC 11, però és seguit per un 20% de la població objecte d'estudi. D'altra banda l'estimació d'ingressos més utilitzada és la relació valorada, però la normativa internacional en limita l'ús i a més en la memòria no es detalla com s'apliquen aquests criteris.
· Hi ha una falta de control analític en les UTE, ja que les empreses membre poden utilitzar comptabilitats de gestió diferents i el control analític de l'obra realitzada en comú, junt amb la falta de transparència informativa financera pot provocar una liquidació poc fidedigne. Així doncs, el control de l'UTE ha de millorar des del punt de vista analític, de responsabilitats i financer, per reflectir amb exactitud les operacions realitzades en comú.
· La UTE és una figura diferent de l'AIE i els contractes de comptes en participació, en canvi les UTE s'assimilen als joint ventures que regula l'IASB en la NIC 31: "Informació financera d'empreses controlades conjuntament".
· Les empreses partícips en UTE haurien de tenir present la futura reforma comptable derivada de l'harmonització comptable a les NIIF i el seguiment del PSEC per part de les empreses partícips hauria de ser més estricte per poder portar a terme la citada reforma comptable.
· De l'anàlisi comparat de la normativa espanyola, francesa i internacional respecte els contractes de construcció es dedueix, que amb el procés de globalització calen informacions comptables harmonitzades i en sintonia amb les normes de l'IASB, per tant queda un important treball en l'àmbit estatal per aconseguir la necessària convergència normativa.
· Les UTE han de procurar l'execució d'un projecte i l'aplicació de noves tecnologies en el seu desenvolupament, amb la corresponent informació en els estats financers, per aconseguir qualitat i una bona posició en el mercat competitiu conjugant variables econòmiques i socials.
· Actualment la informació comptable derivada de les UTE no reflecteix la imatge fidel del patrimoni, de la situació financera i dels resultats d'aquestes associacions temporals.
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Reed, Anita A. C. "The biological activity of fracture non-unions". Thesis, University of Oxford, 2001. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.249459.
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Veliziotis, Michail. "Essays on the economics of trade unions". Thesis, University of Essex, 2011. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.542350.
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Ball, Christopher James. "Trade unions and redundancy : opposition and acquiescence". Thesis, London School of Economics and Political Science (University of London), 1990. http://etheses.lse.ac.uk/1195/.
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This thesis focuses on the collective responses of union members and unions to redundancy. It adopts a theory of trade union action based on the idea that workers react to violations of what they perceive to be "rights" in the employment context. "Rights" are to a degree inculcated into the minds of workers by "union cultures", which condition moral and ethical judgements of behaviour. Connections are drawn between "cultures", "ideologies" and "world views". Workers' responses to redundancy it is suggested should show evidence of the influence of union cultures in a sequence of events over long periods of time. This is borne out in the empirical chapters; Chapter 4 (which describes the historical background to the 1965 Redundancy Payments Act) quotes developments in union responses to redundancy since the 1930s. In a further section, Chapter 5, a case study of a series of redundancy events in the computer company, ICL, is provided, covering union responses to redundancy in the period 1969 to 1979. The evidence also calls into question the view expressed in some academic and policy work on redundancy, that the 1965 Redundancy Payments Act has defused union opposition to redundancy. The period before 1965, the evidence suggests, could not be characterised as a period of strong union opposition, and the years since the passing of the Act have not seen a predominance of union acquiescence. On this basis, too, Hardy's argument that managements have managed redundancy and closure by a process of legitimisation, is called in to question. Also, the work of neo-classical labour economists, who see workers and union attitudes towards redundancy in terms of the decisions of "economic man", is refuted by the evidence and the argument in the thesis, which emphasises the moral influence of unions and the practice of unionism.
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Ragoobur, Satiumsingh. "Trade unions in an era of globalisation". Thesis, University of Nottingham, 2004. http://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/11381/.
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The objectives of this thesis are twofold. First, to investigate the link between foreign competition and the decline of unionisation in Britain during the 1980s and early 1990s. Second, to examine the impact of international trade on the wage bargaining strength of trade unions as measured by the union wage gap of individual workers. The study focuses primarily on the manufacturing sector given that it has suffered the heaviest decline in unionisation and is the most tradable and open sector of the UK economy. An important aspect of the thesis is the data used. The empirical analyses are carried out using labour market information from large individual and firm level surveys such as the New Earnings Survey Panel Dataset and the Workplace Industrial Relations Survey matched with industry trade data compiled from the OECD's International Trade by Commodities Statistics. The results demonstrate that foreign competition had, at most, a weak impact on the extent of unionisation in UK manufacturing. It seems more likely that the anti-union policy pursued by Thatcher's Conservative Government restricted the exercise of union power whilst providing employers with the opportunity to reaffirm their prerogatives and marginalize the union movement. On the other hand, we do find that increased openness to international trade served to moderate union wage demands during the 1980s. Although, it would appear that the disciplining effect of foreign competition diminished over time as the union mark up was not adversely affected towards the mid-1990s.