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Crafting a Statutory Union Recognition Procedure that Works for the UK

In: Unions in the 21st Century

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  • Stephen Wood
  • Sian Moore

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At least 700 Union recognition agreements were signed in the UK between 2001 and 2002, according to the records of the Trade Union Congress (TUC). This contrasts starkly with the 1990s, when throughout the whole decade the number was less than 100 per year. The signs of a reversal of fortunes for the trade unions became apparent in 2000 when the TUC recorded around 150 new agreements. This rise in voluntary recognitions suggests that the Labour Government’s statutory recognition procedure, introduced under the Employment Relations Act in 2000 (ERA), is stimulating recognitions as the trade unions had hoped it would. The Department of Trade and Industry (2003: 28) in its Consultative Document on the Review of the Employment Act, which it published in February 2003, in fact used the evidence of a general rise in voluntary recognition agreements as the main support for its claim that ‘the procedure is, overall, working well’. In this chapter we review the operation of the system in order to assess this conclusion.

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  • Stephen Wood & Sian Moore, 2004. "Crafting a Statutory Union Recognition Procedure that Works for the UK," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Anil Verma & Thomas A. Kochan (ed.), Unions in the 21st Century, chapter 6, pages 75-90, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-0-230-52458-3_6
    DOI: 10.1057/9780230524583_6
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