This paper investigates the demise of unionisation in British private sectorworkplaces over the last quarter century. We show that dramatic union decline hasoccurred across all types of workplace. Although the union wage premium persistsit is quite small in 2004. Negative union effects on employment growth andfinancial performance are largely confined to the 1980s. Managerial perceptions ofthe climate of relations between managers and workers has deteriorated since theearly 1980s across the whole private sector, whether the workplace is unionised ornot.
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