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| Author: | Woolfson, C. Beck, M. |
| Title: | Union recognition in Britain's offshore oil and gas industry: implications of the Employment Relations Act 1999 |
| Journal: | Industrial Relations Journal
2004 : JUL, VOL. 35:4, p. 344-358 |
| Index terms: | gas industry industrial relations offshore industry trade unions |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The Employment Relations Act 1999 (ERA) has provided trade unions in the UK with new opportunities for achieving recognition. After a long history of antiunionism in the offshore oil and gas industry, employers have voluntarily ceded recognition to Trades Union Congress (TUC)-affiliated trade unions. The legitimacy of this process has been contested by the non-TUC Offshore Industry Liaison Committee (OILC), an offshore workers' union, seeking to act as a recognised bargaining agent. The ERA may be promoting "business friendly" agreements at the expense of claims to recognition of other bargaining agents and of democratic employee choice. |
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