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Does Employee Ownership Weaken Trade Unions? Recent Evidence from the UK Bus Industry

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  • Andrew Pendleton
  • Andrew Robinson
  • Nicholas Wilson

    (University of Bradford Management Centre)

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This paper examines the impact of employee ownership on trade unions and collective bargaining in firms adopting the ESOP form of collective ownership. The paper addresses the proposition found in earlier literature on employee ownership that union functions will be undermined by a combination of attitudinal change and by the introduction of new forms of representation and participation. Focusing especially on the latter issue the paper reports the findings of research into employee ownership in the UK bus industry. It is found that union membership and functions survive intact, and that in some respects the union role may have been widened and strengthened by employee ownership.

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  • Andrew Pendleton & Andrew Robinson & Nicholas Wilson, 1995. "Does Employee Ownership Weaken Trade Unions? Recent Evidence from the UK Bus Industry," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 16(4), pages 577-605, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:ecoind:v:16:y:1995:i:4:p:577-605
    DOI: 10.1177/0143831X95164005
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    1. Patrick P. Mchugh & Joel Cutcher-Gershenfeld & Michael Polzin, 1999. "Employee Stock Ownership Plans: Union Influence and Stakeholder Interests," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 20(4), pages 535-560, November.
    2. Roger Spear, 1999. "The Rise and Fall of Employee-Owned UK Bus Companies," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 20(2), pages 253-268, May.

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