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Trade Union Responses to zero hours work in Ireland
Author(s) -
Murphy Caroline,
Turner Thomas,
O'Sullivan Michelle,
MacMahon Juliet,
Lavelle Jonathan,
Ryan Lorraine,
Gunnigle Patrick,
O'Brien Mike
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
industrial relations journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.525
H-Index - 3
eISSN - 1468-2338
pISSN - 0019-8692
DOI - 10.1111/irj.12271
Subject(s) - work (physics) , zero (linguistics) , irish , trade union , zero tolerance , collective bargaining , business , economics , labour economics , political science , law , engineering , mechanical engineering , philosophy , linguistics
This paper examines the strategies adopted by Irish unions in responding to zero hours work in four sectors. It concludes that rather than adopting either a passive or a uniform approach, unions have pragmatically varied their strategies to curtail zero‐hours work through actively combining both bargaining and regulatory approaches.