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Law commentary: discrimination in union influenced employment recruitment
Author(s) -
Khan Andy,
Spencer Bruce
Publication year - 1986
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/j.1468-2338.1986.tb00534.x
Subject(s) - appeal , order (exchange) , political science , law and economics , law , sociology , business , finance
This article examines union influenced employers’ recruitment practices in the light of a recent Court of Appeal case. It argues that unions need to acknowledge traditional practices can, even unintentionally, be racist and sexist and that in order to defend union influence, those practices must change.