Open AccessTrends in official union membership : 1983- 1985
Author(s) -
Raymond Harbridge,
Susan Webber
Publication year - 1970
Publication title -
new zealand journal of industrial relations
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 0110-0637
DOI - 10.26686/nzjir.v12i2.3608
Subject(s) - political science , period (music) , union density , demographic economics , labour economics , law , economics , collective bargaining , physics , acoustics
This article examines union membership statistics for the period of voluntary unionism in 1984-85. It shows that large unions. lost proportionally more members than small unions that female-intensive unions did not lose a dispoprotionately high number of members and that employer deduction of union fees was a key factor in membership retention.