Trade Union Responses to Ageing Workplaces
Lessons from the UK
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 13018151 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Chris Ball (0000-0002-4950-7561, Newcastle University), Matt Flynn (0000-0003-4754-9837, University of Hull, corresponding author) |
| Editors | Heike Schröder (0000-0001-8973-7954) |
| Year | 2020 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 273-287 |
| Publication date | 2020-12-05 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Work Aging and Retirement (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2054-4650 • E-ISSN: 2054-4650 |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press (OUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1093/workar/waaa033 |
| OpenAlex | W3124271552 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 37 |
In 2017, European-level unions and business associations agreed a framework for national and workplace level employers and union representatives to take collaborative action to design workforce responses to demographic ageing. This article discusses how unions are responding to pressures to extend working life in the UK. Drawing on industrial relations and social movement literature, it argues that unions pursue the twin strategies of working in partnership with like-minded employers to reorient workplaces towards an age friendly model while organizing and campaigning with members to secure conditions consistent with active and healthy ageing. Resisting an erosion of pension and retirement rights and extending employment protection are examples of this approach, but numerous lower profile initiatives by workplace representatives are also reflective of their having an age friendly agenda. Using qualitative data from focus group discussions with union representatives in two sectors, the article shows that union responses are rooted in both of the dominant models of British unionism—the organizing and partnership models—and argues that literature on social movements helps to understand how union representatives reconcile the competing pressures
Ageing · Economics · General partnership · Healthy ageing · Industrial action · Labour economics · Pension · Political science · Public relations · Social partners · Social Partnership · Trade union · Workforce · Employment and Welfare Studies · Labor Movements and Unions · Medicine · Retirement, Disability, and Employment · Industrial Relations · Law · Public Administration
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| Citations per year | 0.2 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2021 - 2021 (1) |
| Highly cited | No |