Decentralization of Collective Bargaining: An Analysis of Recent Experience in the UK

By Kate Tuck, John W. Leopold, Michael P. Jackson, et al.

After reviewing the rise and decline of the UK system of industry wide collective bargaining, the authors use five detailed case studies to examine the process of decentralising bargaining from industry to single employer level. In each industry management's reasons for withdrawal, the union response, details of the new structures and the experience of operation of the new system are analysed. Finally, the five industries are compared and contrasted and lessons for employers and unions in other industries are drawn.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0333574273
• ISBN13: 9780333574270
• Release Date: July 1993
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 197 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.5" x 8.5"