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Trade unions and the real Living Wage: survey evidence from the UK

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  • Edmund Heery
  • Deborah Hann
  • David Nash

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This article uses evidence from a survey of accredited Living Wage Employers to examine the extent to which trade unions have supported, campaigned for and been involved in the introduction of the voluntary or ‘real’ Living Wage in the UK. It reports that while unions tended to view the adoption of the Living Wage favourably and to support its introduction they typically were not heavily involved either in the initial decision to adopt the standard or in its implementation. This pattern of findings, it is suggested, is consistent with the union response to corporate social responsibility initiatives and provides only limited support for the commonly argued position that ‘economic justice’ movements provide fertile ground for the development of union‐community coalitions.

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  • Edmund Heery & Deborah Hann & David Nash, 2018. "Trade unions and the real Living Wage: survey evidence from the UK," Industrial Relations Journal, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 49(4), pages 319-335, July.
    • Handle: RePEc:bla:indrel:v:49:y:2018:i:4:p:319-335
    DOI: 10.1111/irj.12224
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    1. Mathew Johnson & Aristea Koukiadaki & Damian Grimshaw, 2019. "The Living Wage in the UK: testing the limits of soft regulation?," Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research, , vol. 25(3), pages 319-333, August.
    2. Eva Herman & Jill Rubery & Gail Hebson, 2021. "A case of employers never letting a good crisis go to waste? An investigation of how work becomes even more precarious for hourly paid workers under Covid," Industrial Relations Journal, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 52(5), pages 442-457, September.
    3. Reg HAMILTON & Matt NICHOL, 2023. "One hundred years of dynamic minimum wage regulation: Lessons from Australia, the United Kingdom and the United States," International Labour Review, International Labour Organization, vol. 162(3), pages 407-429, September.

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