加强工会自身建设 树立工会良好形象

加强工会自身建设是工会工作创新发展的内在动力,工会工作要与时代同步,就必须把自身建设摆在更加突出的位置,不断推进工会工作群众化、民主化、制度化,全面加强工会组织的干部队伍建设、工作活力建设、民主管理建设。     

西方工会利益整合的表达特点及发展趋势

西方工会作为独立的社会组织,在利益表达方面文武兼备、注重源头维护、程序安排更为合理;当前西方工会虽然面临着一些困难,但通过加强相关制度机制建设和国际合作,在利益整合的表达方面将继续发挥积极的作用。在我国,随着市场经济的逐步完善,改革开放的稳步推进,工会在社会利益整合表达方面的功能也需要进一步加强,研究西方工会的特点和发展趋势,有助于对我国工会的完善提供一些参考。     

社会化专职工会工作者管理工作探析

在社会主义市场经济条件下,社会化是基层工会干部队伍建设的发展趋势。解决社会化专职工会工作者的编制、工资待遇、职业发展、队伍稳定及能力素质等问题;增强基层工会组织的活力,在管理工作上多措并举,建设一支长期稳定发展的干部队伍,是全总"两个普遍"、"面对面、心贴心、实打实服务职工在基层"等重点工作的要求。     

职工需求是确立工会工作重点的现实依据

工会是个群众组织,其最大的工作特点是自下而上开展工作,所以工作重点的确定必须走群众路线,倾听广大会员与职工的呼声与要求,将工作重点置于解决职工群众最关心最直接最现实的利益维护上,以促进劳动关系的和谐稳定,充分调动职工积极性。     

非法人社团的独立财产权——以工会的独立财产权为中心

非法人社团虽然不具有法人资格,但在某种意义上,并不影响其享有独立的财产权,这一点,对于具有社会公共职能的社团而言,更具有现实价值。工会作为协调劳资关系,保护劳动者权益的重要社团,其独立财产权的享有是其生存和发展的根本所在。这充分表明,不具有法人资格的工会组织也可以准用独立财产权规则。这种准用得到了大陆法和英美法的理论和制度的支持。     

对建构企业民主管理制度体系的几点思考

职工群体事件的频发,究其原因,主要是由于一些企业不重视职工民主管理,职工缺乏知情、参与、决定权。有效整合企业民主管理的各种制度资源,从而最大化、最优化地发挥企业民主管理的综合作用,,实现“制度联建、实施联动、功能互补、效果叠加”的工作思路,促进企业职工各项权益的落实,对构建和谐劳动关系,推进企业和谐发展具有基础性作用。     

从《劳动合同法》角度看工会及其新作为

我国工会是维护劳动者合法权益的群众组织。工会权利和工会作用在《劳动合同法》中被放在突出的位置上,力图通过工会权利的运用和工会作用的发挥使劳动者与用人单位的劳动合同关系达到权利与义务的平衡,更好地维护劳动者的合法权益。     

关于工会组织公信力的思考

工会组织公信力是工会组织赢得职工群众认可和社会信任的关键能力,是工会组织取得社会合法性的基础力量.当前我国工会的组织体制和运行机制还不能适应市场经济条件下维护职工合法权益的形势需要,使得工会尤其是基层企业工会作用发挥有限、部分职工和社会公众对工会工作的认可度不高,从而造成了工会组织公信力低下的状况.面对这一问题,工会组织需要调整传统的工作理念、工作模式与工作方法,主动作为,通过理念创新、组织创新、机制创新与工作创新,大力推进组织服务力建设.     

Labor rights are civil rights: inter-racial unionism and the struggle to unionize Nissan in Canton,Mississippi

Abstract

On 4 August 2017, workers at Nissan’s plant in Canton, Mississippi, voted 2244 to 1307 against being represented by the United Automobile Workers of America (UAW). The organizing campaign in Canton – which began shortly after the plant opened in 2003 – was one of the most important in recent labor history, and it attracted national and international media coverage. It also mobilized some high-profile supporters, including actor Danny Glover, musician Common, Democratic National Committee chair Tom Perez, and presidential contender Bernie Sanders. This article uses interviews with Nissan workers and UAW staffers, together with the records of the long organizing drive, to provide the first detailed examination of this landmark campaign, revealing problems that press accounts did not cover. While the UAW and its supporters blamed Nissan’s fierce opposition for the outcome, this article reveals that the reasons for the loss were more complex. Apart from corporate opposition, community hostility, the increasing number of temporary workers – who were unable to vote in the election – and racial divisions were all important factors. Most of the UAW’s supporters were African-American, and they were mobilized by a campaign that declared that, ‘Labor Rights are Civil Rights.’ This slogan alienated many whites, however, weakening the union. While the UAW pledged to fight on, the defeat was another blow to its long campaign to organize foreign-owned automakers in the U.S., an increasingly important sector.     

Purposive derecognition? Empirical evidence of managerial strategy

ABSTRACT

Various authors have referred to the use of ‘purposive’ or ‘strategic’ approach to proactively excluding trade unions from collective bargaining. The assumption has been that exclusion is an end in itself, a return to managerial prerogative, a move back from involvement with trade unions. However, there is a ‘lacuna’ of research into negotiating processes. This research study aims to fill that lacuna in using a case in the UK where access was given to relevant documents and staff over a period of months following the derecognition process in a major process plant; this comprised two separate derecognition processes: internal and external, both affecting two craft unions. This empirical evidence questions the simple dichotomy of ‘purposive’ versus ‘reactive’ derecognition and illustrates the complexity of the processes. Further, the care with which this firm approached the issue of improving productivity illustrates that managerial power is a dynamic, not a static necessary condition for coercive change.