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Trade Unions, Union Learning Representatives and Employer‐Provided Training in Britain
Author(s) -
Hoque Kim,
Bacon Nicolas
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
british journal of industrial relations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.665
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1467-8543
pISSN - 0007-1080
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-8543.2008.00681.x
Subject(s) - union density , trade union , training (meteorology) , industrial relations , non union , distribution (mathematics) , political science , empirical evidence , labour economics , business , public relations , economics , geography , law , collective bargaining , mathematics , medicine , mathematical analysis , philosophy , surgery , epistemology , meteorology
This article provides an empirical assessment of the relationship between trade union recognition, union density, union learning representatives (ULRs) and employer‐provided training in British workplaces using linked employer–employee data from the 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey. The results suggest that the relationship between union recognition and training is, at best, weak. We find no consistent relationship between union density and training or between the presence of ULRs and training. We do, however, find some evidence of greater equality in the distribution of training in ULR workplaces than in other workplaces.