Mélanie Laroche
Biographic Data
| ID | 3772898 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mélanie Laroche |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mélanie |
| FAMILY NAME | Laroche |
| SIGNATURE | LAROCHE M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Université de Montréal |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Workers as climate actors: What can unions do about climate change? Introduction
Climate change is an existential threat requiring mitigation and adaptation efforts likely to affect workers, their workplaces and their communities. The introduction to this thematic issue of Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research explores how workers and their unions become climate actors. In addition to presenting the seven studies featured in this issue, we identify cross-cutting themes emerging from them. These include: the importa…
How do workers and their unions become climate actors? A research framework
This article develops a research framework for understanding workers and their unions as strategic actors in the climate transition, emphasising the centrality of their agency. While climate change poses profound challenges such as job losses, work reorganisation, and health risks, workers are often described as passive recipients of state or employer-led decisions. We conceptualise union engagement along two dimensions: the strategies they pursu…
Gender equality in the workplace in Quebec: Strategic Priority for Employers or Partial Response to Institutional Pressures
Purpose This paper examines the challenges posed for employers by gender equality in the workplace, in a seemingly favourable institutional context (the province of Quebec, Canada), and the reasons why employers adopt (or not) gender equality measures (GEMs) exceeding legal requirements. Design/methodology/approach The approach draws on both institutional theory and the strategic human resource management (SHRM) approach. Our research is based on…
Understanding the dynamics of inequity in collective bargaining: Evidence from Australia, Canada, Denmark and France
Unions and collective bargaining are generally considered to be the main vehicles for ensuring equity at work. This article questions this assertion by examining distinct forms of inequity between workers in unionised workplaces and, more specifically, the role of collective bargaining in creating, maintaining, reducing or avoiding them. Based on a study conducted in Australia, Canada (Québec), Denmark and France, the situations of inequity exami…
Les disparités de traitement entre nouveaux et anciens salariés: L’institutionnalisation des inégalités de rémunération au Québec
Cet article traite d’une pratique de rémunération répandue en Amérique du Nord que l’on nomme two-tier wage ou two-tier compensation . Appelée disparité de traitement au Québec, cette pratique prévoit un traitement distinct au chapitre de la rémunération entre les employés selon leur date d’embauche. Cet article présente un portrait des différentes disparités observées dans les conventions collectives d’établissement et de leur développement au Q…
Time is on whose side? Determining the duration of collective agreements in a decentralized collective bargaining system
This article examines how the union and management determine the duration of the collective agreement in a decentralized bargaining system characterized by the absence of a rule establishing a maximum duration. Based on information on a population of over 5000 collective agreements and bargaining pairs from the Canadian province of Québec, our analysis reveals that establishment-level collective agreement duration is the result of general economi…
When Collective Bargaining Leads to Inequality: Determinants of Two-Tier Provisions in Canadian Collective Agreements
This study examines two-tier provisions-a form of labor segmentation in firms that is increasingly formalized in collective agreements. Drawing on a large population of Canadian collective agreements from the private sector, the authors show that the adoption of these provisions is related more to industrial relations context than to economic uncertainty. Also, depending on whether the two-tier provisions focus on compensation or on job security,…
Revitalizing Union Representation through Labor Education Initiatives: A Close Examination of Two Trade Unions in Quebec
This article aims to explain whether and to what extent formal and informal labor education and training initiatives help increase union participation among young members. Between 2009 and 2014, twenty-two interviews were conducted with ten national union leaders and twelve young leaders in two trade union organizations operating in the public and private sectors in Quebec. To complement these data, fifty-three focus group discussions were held, …
Jeunes et syndicalisme. Une intégration réussie ou un divorce annoncé ? Regard critique sur deux organisations syndicales au Québec
Les jeunes syndiqués québécois seraient-ils réticents face aux opportunités de participation syndicale ? Saisissent-ils les opportunités d'action que leur offrent les Comités jeunes, une forme avancée d'implication syndicale ? Contrairement à une idée reçus, nos données empiriques nuancent la prétendue apathie des « jeunes ». En fait, un retour à l'action syndicale de proximité semble essentiel pour stimuler leur participation et leur éveil syndi…
Action collective patronale sur fond de crise: Vers une reconfiguration du modèle associatif
Cet article propose une analyse des stratégies déployées par une association patronale pour s'adapter aux multiples transformations de son environnement. Il montre la capacité des acteurs, considérés comme des entrepreneurs institutionnels, à transformer les institutions du travail pour qu'elles soient plus représentatives de leurs besoins et intérêts. Le cas de l’Association des manufacturiers du vêtement pour hommes au Québec (AMVQ) permet de l…
Revitalizing Union Representation through Labor Education Initiatives: A Close Examination of Two Trade Unions in Quebec
This article aims to explain whether and to what extent formal and informal labor education and training initiatives help increase union participation among young members. Between 2009 and 2014, twenty-two interviews were conducted with ten national union leaders and twelve young leaders in two trade union organizations operating in the public and private sectors in Quebec. To complement these data, fifty-three focus group discussions were held, …
Action collective patronale sur fond de crise: Vers une reconfiguration du modèle associatif
Cet article propose une analyse des stratégies déployées par une association patronale pour s'adapter aux multiples transformations de son environnement. Il montre la capacité des acteurs, considérés comme des entrepreneurs institutionnels, à transformer les institutions du travail pour qu'elles soient plus représentatives de leurs besoins et intérêts. Le cas de l’Association des manufacturiers du vêtement pour hommes au Québec (AMVQ) permet de l…
Action collective patronale sur fond de crise: Vers une reconfiguration du modèle associatif
Cet article propose une analyse des stratégies déployées par une association patronale pour s'adapter aux multiples transformations de son environnement. Il montre la capacité des acteurs, considérés comme des entrepreneurs institutionnels, à transformer les institutions du travail pour qu'elles soient plus représentatives de leurs besoins et intérêts. Le cas de l’Association des manufacturiers du vêtement pour hommes au Québec (AMVQ) permet de l…
Jeunes et syndicalisme. Une intégration réussie ou un divorce annoncé ? Regard critique sur deux organisations syndicales au Québec
Les jeunes syndiqués québécois seraient-ils réticents face aux opportunités de participation syndicale ? Saisissent-ils les opportunités d'action que leur offrent les Comités jeunes, une forme avancée d'implication syndicale ? Contrairement à une idée reçus, nos données empiriques nuancent la prétendue apathie des « jeunes ». En fait, un retour à l'action syndicale de proximité semble essentiel pour stimuler leur participation et leur éveil syndi…
Revitalizing Union Representation through Labor Education Initiatives: A Close Examination of Two Trade Unions in Quebec
This article aims to explain whether and to what extent formal and informal labor education and training initiatives help increase union participation among young members. Between 2009 and 2014, twenty-two interviews were conducted with ten national union leaders and twelve young leaders in two trade union organizations operating in the public and private sectors in Quebec. To complement these data, fifty-three focus group discussions were held, …
When Collective Bargaining Leads to Inequality: Determinants of Two-Tier Provisions in Canadian Collective Agreements
This study examines two-tier provisions-a form of labor segmentation in firms that is increasingly formalized in collective agreements. Drawing on a large population of Canadian collective agreements from the private sector, the authors show that the adoption of these provisions is related more to industrial relations context than to economic uncertainty. Also, depending on whether the two-tier provisions focus on compensation or on job security,…
Les disparités de traitement entre nouveaux et anciens salariés: L’institutionnalisation des inégalités de rémunération au Québec
Cet article traite d’une pratique de rémunération répandue en Amérique du Nord que l’on nomme two-tier wage ou two-tier compensation . Appelée disparité de traitement au Québec, cette pratique prévoit un traitement distinct au chapitre de la rémunération entre les employés selon leur date d’embauche. Cet article présente un portrait des différentes disparités observées dans les conventions collectives d’établissement et de leur développement au Q…
Time is on whose side? Determining the duration of collective agreements in a decentralized collective bargaining system
This article examines how the union and management determine the duration of the collective agreement in a decentralized bargaining system characterized by the absence of a rule establishing a maximum duration. Based on information on a population of over 5000 collective agreements and bargaining pairs from the Canadian province of Québec, our analysis reveals that establishment-level collective agreement duration is the result of general economi…
Understanding the dynamics of inequity in collective bargaining: Evidence from Australia, Canada, Denmark and France
Unions and collective bargaining are generally considered to be the main vehicles for ensuring equity at work. This article questions this assertion by examining distinct forms of inequity between workers in unionised workplaces and, more specifically, the role of collective bargaining in creating, maintaining, reducing or avoiding them. Based on a study conducted in Australia, Canada (Québec), Denmark and France, the situations of inequity exami…
Gender equality in the workplace in Quebec: Strategic Priority for Employers or Partial Response to Institutional Pressures
Purpose This paper examines the challenges posed for employers by gender equality in the workplace, in a seemingly favourable institutional context (the province of Quebec, Canada), and the reasons why employers adopt (or not) gender equality measures (GEMs) exceeding legal requirements. Design/methodology/approach The approach draws on both institutional theory and the strategic human resource management (SHRM) approach. Our research is based on…
Workers as climate actors: What can unions do about climate change? Introduction
Climate change is an existential threat requiring mitigation and adaptation efforts likely to affect workers, their workplaces and their communities. The introduction to this thematic issue of Transfer: European Review of Labour and Research explores how workers and their unions become climate actors. In addition to presenting the seven studies featured in this issue, we identify cross-cutting themes emerging from them. These include: the importa…
How do workers and their unions become climate actors? A research framework
This article develops a research framework for understanding workers and their unions as strategic actors in the climate transition, emphasising the centrality of their agency. While climate change poses profound challenges such as job losses, work reorganisation, and health risks, workers are often described as passive recipients of state or employer-led decisions. We conceptualise union engagement along two dimensions: the strategies they pursu…
Labor Movements and Unions (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Collective bargaining (4 works) · Digital Economy and Work Transformation (4 works) · Employment and Welfare Studies (4 works) · Law (4 works) · Social Sciences and Governance (4 works) · Bargaining power (3 works)