abstract: 'Purpose The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to reassert the

  persistent association of the decline in collective bargaining with the

  increase in income inequality, the fall in the share of wages in

  national income and deterioration in macroeconomic performance in the

  UK; and second, to present case studies affirming concrete outcomes of

  organisational collective bargaining for workers, in terms of pay, job

  quality, working hours and work-life balance.

  Design/methodology/approach The paper is based upon two methodological

  approaches. First, econometric analyses using industry-level and

  firm-level data for advanced and emerging economies testing the

  relationship between declining union density, collective bargaining

  coverage and the fall in the share of wages in national income. Second,

  it reports on ten in-depth case studies of collective bargaining each

  based upon analysis of collective bargaining agreements plus in-depth

  interviews with the actors party to them: in total, 16 trade union

  officers, 16 members and 11 employer representatives. Findings There is

  robust evidence of the effects of different measures of bargaining power

  on the labour share including union density, welfare state retrenchment,

  minimum wages and female employment. The case studies appear to address

  a legacy of deregulated industrial relations. A number demonstrate the

  reinvigoration of collective bargaining at the organisational and

  sectoral level, addressing the two-tier workforce and contractual

  differentiation, alongside the consequences of government pay policies

  for equality.

  Originality/value The paper indicates that there may be limits to

  employer commitment to deregulated employment relations. The emergence

  of new or reinvigorated collective agreements may represent a concession

  by employers that a ``free{''''}, individualised, deinstitutionalised,

  precarious approach to industrial relations, based on wage suppression

  and work intensification, is not in their interests in the long run.'
affiliation: 'Moore, S (Corresponding Author), Univ Greenwich, Business Sch, London,
  England.

  Moore, Sian; Onaran, Ozlem; Guschanski, Alexander; Antunes, Bethania; Symon, Graham,
  Univ Greenwich, Business Sch, London, England.'
author: Moore, Sian and Onaran, Ozlem and Guschanski, Alexander and Antunes, Bethania
  and Symon, Graham
author-email: s.moore@greenwich.ac.uk
author_list:
- family: Moore
  given: Sian
- family: Onaran
  given: Ozlem
- family: Guschanski
  given: Alexander
- family: Antunes
  given: Bethania
- family: Symon
  given: Graham
da: '2023-09-28'
doi: 10.1108/ER-09-2018-0256
eissn: 1758-7069
files: []
issn: 0142-5455
journal: EMPLOYEE RELATIONS
keywords: Collective bargaining; Wages; Trade unions
keywords-plus: INCOME-DISTRIBUTION; GROWTH; DECLINE; POLICY; WAGE
language: English
month: FEB 11
number: 2, SI
number-of-cited-references: '51'
orcid-numbers: Antunes, Bethania/0000-0003-3589-2347
pages: 279-295
papis_id: b21b6f4dbae191294f6203776abc519f
ref: Moore2019resiliencecollective
times-cited: '6'
title: The resilience of collective bargaining - a renewed logic for joint regulation?
type: article
unique-id: WOS:000462071200002
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usage-count-since-2013: '31'
volume: '41'
web-of-science-categories: Industrial Relations \& Labor; Management
year: '2019'