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Resistance to privatisation — social dialogue, US-style

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  • Brendan Martin

    (Independent policy and research consultant specialising in the labour and social dimensions of privatization and public service reform. He is the author of the recently reprinted In the Public Interest?: Privatization and Public Sector Reform (Zed Books, 1993) and of the forthcoming In the Public Service, also to be published by Zed in 2002.)

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This article looks at US experiences of the contracting-out form of privatisations, the problems it can cause and the forms of resistance that have developed among public service unions. It focuses in particular on how the municipal workers’ union in Indianapolis combined resistance with partnership to avert privatisation and achieve improved service, employment guarantees and better pay and working conditions. It then details, with reference to airport security, some of the perils of allowing privately owned companies, with their limited business preoccupations, to manage an area with a major public-good component.

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  • Brendan Martin, 2002. "Resistance to privatisation — social dialogue, US-style," Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, , vol. 8(2), pages 279-291, May.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:treure:v:8:y:2002:i:2:p:279-291
    DOI: 10.1177/102425890200800211
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