In October 2007, the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform (BERR [1]) published a report (1.27Mb PDF) [2] outlining initial findings from a research project examining the implementation of the UK’s Information and Consultation of Employees (ICE) Regulations 2004 [3] (UK0502103N
The spring and summer of 2001 witnessed a flurry of debate about the relationships between the trade unions and the Labour Party, focusing in particular on the unions' financial support for the party. A number of trade unions, in particular those in the public sector, openly started to wonder why
The shop steward is perhaps the best-known figure in British industrial relations - the lynch-pin of a decentralised, enterprise-based system of collective bargaining. Shop stewards are elected directly by their fellow workers and act as their representatives in individual and collective dealings
Since the election of the Labour government in May 1997, much has been made of the idea of "partnership" as the new "third way" for UK industrial relations - representing, for its advocates, a modern alternative both to the entrenched adversarialism of traditional collective bargaining and to the
The incompatibility between the UK's traditional "single-channel" system of trade union representation and the universal employee rights to information and consultation increasingly embodied in EU law has been widely commented upon (see, for example, UK9812166F [1]). As trade unionism and union