Union membership

Scholars of the European Union (EU) have a strong interest in the concept of European Union identity (Cram, 2009). The ‘European union’ identity can be identified nowadays, although there are still conflicts between national identities and a shared European identity which can be illustrated by the data from Eurobarameter and other sources. Most people perceive themselves as Europeans, as Anderson (1991) state, there is no contradictory between Europe and nation-state, ‘country first, but Europe,

BREXIT: Uncertainty Following Britain’s Exit from the European Union Officially known as The United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, the UK (or simply Britain) is home to over sixty-five million diverse people. The UK has been a member of the European Union for 43 years and has seen its economy do quite well during this time. During the summer of 2016, UK citizens made a decision to leave the EU. This decision shook the entire global economy, raised many uncertainties and now leaves

2004, the European Union sought to establish cordial partnerships with its immediate neighbouring countries. The European Neighbourhood Policy (ENP) is a set of policies aimed at approaching those immediate neighbours of the EU. As Article 8 of the Treaty of the European Union explicitly states: “The Union shall develop a special relationship with the neighbouring countries, aiming to establish an area of prosperity and good neighbourliness, founded on the values of the Union and characterized by

“The trade union movement represents the organized economic power of the workers... It is in reality the most potent and the most direct social insurance the workers can establish.” Samuel Gompers. A trade union is an organization of workers who have come together to achieve common goals such as protecting the integrity of its trade, improving safety standards, achieving higher pay and many benefits. Unions are a great benefit for workers and communities as being in a union delivers better pay alongside

employee hours distribution, new hires and healthcare eligibility. The bill addressed contracting matters with airlines and service charges and tips with hospitality workers. It also offered employers benefits for allowing employees to organize into unions. There was also a provision in the bill for the law to be strictly enforced if employers didn’t follow the rules. The law would potentially give airline employees and service workers in SeaTac a livable income,

Union renewal depends largely on increased member participation, generating and maintaining strong collective identities and mobilization of union resources. It was further contended that collective identities are not given, but constructed and sustained through narrative framing and engagement of individuals. These processes highlighted the importance of trade union leaders’ ability to construct and sustain workers’ collective identity and interest via strategies which seek to broaden the relevancy

Second World War, Germany was divided in two: a free western Germany, and the communist East Germany. West Germany flourished while East Germany struggled to breathe under the heavy shadow of the Soviet Union. In 1990, after the Berlin Wall fell, Germany finally became one again with the union of East

Influence of the EU on Democracy in the UK One of the objectives of the creation of the European Union was to develop a single market and remove trading barriers so there would be standardisation of technical regulations and convergence of conditions between European markets. With this in mind, it saw the need for employers and employees to work together in order to achieve this. The main statement of the European social policy is the Social Charter (approved by 11 of the then 12 member states)

Every day millions of Americans turn on their radios, IPods, or some other device which allows them to listen to their favorite musicians and have no idea that there is a union standing guard to ensure the rights of those very musicians. The average American may think their favorite musicians are rolling “dough” and not realize that for the past hundred and fourteen years the American Federation of Musicians, aka AFM, has worked to improve the professional lives of musicians across North America

This report will provide an overview of the shift in Human Resource Management from collective to individualised approaches to Employee Relations and will also explain the concept of the psychological contract and consider its importance for contemporary Employee Relations practice. “The terms ‘human resource management’ (HRM) AND ‘human resources’ (HR) have largely replaced the ‘personnel management ‘as a description of the processes involved in managing people in organisation’s” (Armstrong, 2009