再论当好娘家人:协调劳动关系的工会视角

党的十一届三中全会以来,特别是推行经济体制改革以来,中国经济社会的巨大发展变化,给工会组织和工会工作提出了提出新的课题和要求.经过30多年的思考与实践,中国工会逐步完成了工会工作指导思想的重大转变.协调劳动关系的工会视角:工会的工资集体协商工作是在劳动力市场化之后,生产要素之间公平合理分配最有效的运行机制,是工会协调劳动关系,维护劳动者权益的基本方式;工会协调劳动关系一定要在法律的框架内进行,这也是工会在推进这项工作必须要遵守的原则.构建和谐社会,协调好劳动关系,不是工会一家的事情,必须有全社会的共同努力.工会协调劳动关系是维护职工群众合法权益的重要手段,是构建和谐社会的必由之路.     

根除作业陋习 确保安全生产

当前,一些企业管理干部安全意识淡化,职工的违章违纪和脱标作业屡禁不止.为解决这一问题,应从根除职工作业陋习入手,让职工养成遵章守纪习惯,这是提高职工素质确保安全生产的重要途径.     

发挥社区工会作用 促进社会管理创新——关于南京市社区工会工作的调查与思考

城市社区工会工作主要是依托社区平台,协同党政联动,在服务社区的各项工作和活动中发挥工会的职能作用.重视发挥城市社区工会的职能作用,对于推进工会组织的群众化民主化建设、促进社区居民和劳动者的全面发展、促进加强和创新社会管理、构建社会主义和谐社会具有重要意义.城市社区工会工作应当融入社区全局,协同党政联动,依托社区平台,体现工会职能,建立完善群众化民主化的社区工会工作组织和工作机制.上级工会要切实加强对城市社区工会工作的重视、指导和服务工作.     

深刻领会中国工会十六大精神推动工会工作创新发展

中国工会第十六次全国代表大会,是在我国进入全面建成小康社会决定性阶段召开的一次十分重要的会议.深刻理解和把握中央领导同志系列讲话精神和大会报告精神,对于更好地用党中央关于工人阶级和工会工作的新思想、新观点、新论断武装头脑、指导实践,更好地按照全总的统一部署推进工会工作创新发展,团结带领广大职工群众为实现中华民族伟大复兴的中国梦而奋斗具有重要意义.     

携手共建北京职工职业发展公共服务共享平台

首都职工素质建设工程启动开展以来,目标定位明确,组织体系健全,教育模式创新,在推进职工终身学习、提升职工队伍整体素质、增强企业核心竞争力和促进首都经济社会发展等方面发挥出显著作用.根据“十二五”期间,北京市职工发展的主要目标,北京工会将以素质工程为载体,形成公益性职工教育中心,创造更加开放的职工学习环境.重点通过实施在职职工职业发展助推计划,全面提升职工职业技能,让广大职工实现体面劳动.     

Globalization,Labor and the ‘Polanyi Problem’

As a consequence of the global economic crises of the 1970s, in Australia, micro-economic reform of the economy, and in particular the labour market, was seen as a key catalyst in providing a more competitive industrial base for the country. Underpinning this was a fundamental change in the conflictual industrial relations structure that had framed work patterns and practices since Federation. The Williamstown Naval Dockyard in Melbourne was the Australian Federal Government's premier dockyard. It had a long-standing reputation for poor productivity, inefficient work practices and industrial unrest and had been described as Australia's worst worksite. After several failed attempts to reform the dockyard, the Federal Government privatised this utility as a catalyst to reform the work culture. On 1 January 1988, the dockyard was transferred to the highly competitive private shipbuilding sector. As the first public utility sold by an Australian Federal Government and the first workplace to adopt micro-economic labour reforms, including enterprise bargaining, the dockyard provides an opportunity to examine the nature of workplace restructuring in the most radical time of change for labour and trade unions in Australia's history. The dockyard was seen at the time as at the vanguard of this change. This paper explores the reforms undertaken in the dockyard.     

Toxicity in the Details: The History of the Women's Office Worker Movement and Occupational Health in the Late-Capitalist Office

In the early years of the twentieth century Japanese employers, like their counterparts in the various Western countries, experimented with programs of firm-based social welfare and social insurance, often collectively identified as welfare capitalism. This essay examines these programs, focusing on those operated by the national railroad system. It argues that these programs were neither a distinctive emanation of traditional values nor simply a result of mimicry of Western-inspired programs. They were instead an instance of a global effort by employers everywhere to cope with rapidly changing conditions and the challenges of modern economic development. The essay also argues that these Japanese programs, like those in Western countries, influenced and helped to set the parameters of state-based health and welfare systems that emerged in the first half of the century.     

David Brody: Heir to the Wisconsin school

Recently, there has been a move to use a ‘fine-grained’ approach to the study of the multinational companies (MNCs). In this paper, we examine in depth a significant part of the maintenance activities in the process plants of petrochemical MNCs in the UK. While the MNCs have de-recognized their internal trade unions, and out-sourced maintenance to on-site contractors, we find that such work is still linked to trade union recognition. In this sector, the MNCs have in general adopted a national agreement for their on-site contractors. This paper discusses and evaluates the changing situation and provides a unique contribution to theory regarding the rationale behind trade union recognition in that isomorphism underlies the national recognition for trade unions in the sector and, given the changing political situation in the UK, we argue this is ultimately based on legitimacy-seeking.     

Reformers and revolutionaries: the battle for the working classes in Gibraltar and its hinterland, 1902–1921

Abstract

This article examines labour organisation in Gibraltar and its hinterland from c.1914 to 1921. It demonstrates that the traditionally strong links which had existed between organisations in Gibraltar and neighbouring Spain, links based upon a shared belief in anarchist ideas and practices, had, by 1921, broken down due to the adoption of gradualist and constitutionalist politics and industrial relations by workers on the Rock. Two principle agents drove this change. First, in 1919, the British Workers’ Union established a branch in Gibraltar which successfully worked to establish itself as principle negotiator and representative of workers on the Rock. Second, a reforming governor in Gibraltar undertook to open up political spaces in Gibraltar which offered the potential to work with, rather than against, the state in the colony. By the end of the period, anarchism, and anarchist ideas, was not extinguished in Gibraltar, but they would never again serve as the inspiration for industrial and political campaigns on the Rock, much to the delight of both Gibraltarian employers and the British colonial authorities. This case-study invites further consideration of how British style trade union activity in the empire displaced indigenous forms of organising, a subject which has heretofore received scant attention.     

试论新形势下的工会工作

党的十八大报告高屋建瓴,提出了一系列新思想、新观点和新论断,这些新思想、新观点和新论断是进一步推动中国特色社会主义建设事业的重要指导方针,也是推动工会工作的重要指导方针。在新的形势下,工会必须求真务实地开展工作,必须与时俱进、不断创新,必须发动职工群众,依靠职工群众,坚持党的群众路线。