Partnershipamp;Organizing合伙amp；组织

Click to edit Master title style,Click to edit Master text styles,Second level,Third level,Fourth level,Fifth level,*,*,*,Partnership&Organizing,Edmund Heery,Centre for Global Labour Research,Relationship between partnership&organising,Partnership needs powerful unions,Employer-dominant partnership,Concession bargaining,Union-dominant partnership,Extension of bargaining/influence,Sources of power in effective partnership,Bargaining power;political influence;legal rights,Membership&collective organization,Relationship,Organising must be prioritised in all other union policies(mainstreaming),Union decline in Wales,All employees 1998-2006:-13.1%,Private sector 2003-2006:-11.4%,Public sector 2003-2006:-1.4%,Effects of decline,Loss of income,bargaining power&legitimacy,Can partnership help reverse decline?,Using partnership:,Organizing the employer,Offering a partnership agreement to establish a new workplace union,49%of officers reported occasional use of this tactic in 2002(n=572),Motives,Cost-effective recruitment,Means to recruit hard to organize groups,Out competing other unions by attracting employer support,Organizing the employer,Costs,Bidding down terms of recognition,Ineffective organizing price of employer support,Cases from the Organizing Academy,Manufacturing recruitment on basis of individual services in company,workwear,Communications blocking of organising campaign for fear of alienating agency partner,Retail management complaint about contravening partnership when issue-based organizing used,Using partnership:,organizing workers,Using the resources of the employer to contact&organize workers,Cardiff survey of organizing campaigns,98-05,Recruitment at point of induction:30%,Workplace recruitment meetings:50%,Use of employer provided list:66%(N=236),Benefits of employer support to organizing,Cardiff survey of organizing campaigns,98-05,Shorter,less resource intensive campaigns,Organizing around diversity&workplace learning,Outcomes:majority membership;recognition;strengthening of workplace organization,Organizing workers,Costs of employer supported organizing,Organizing message more likely to stress partnership&individual services,But,Campaigns no less likely to use issue-based organizing and stress collective strength,bargaining power,and protective function of unions,Organizers reassure members employer is supportive,Employer-supported organizing does not lead to ineffectual unionism,Questions for discussion,Is there a link between partnership&organizing in public services in Wales?,How is the partnership agreement with WAG being used to promote organizing?,What are the strengths&weaknesses of the approaches adopted?,How might partnership with WAG be used to strengthen&extend trade unionism in the future?,