Union representation, collective voice and job quality: an analysis of a survey of union members in the UK finance sector

TY - JOUR

T1 - Union representation, collective voice and job quality: an analysis of a survey of union members in the UK finance sector

AU - Hoque, Kim

AU - Earls, John

AU - Conway, Neil

AU - Bacon, Nick

PY - 2017

Y1 - 2017

N2 - This article seeks to identify whether employee perceptions of job quality are better in instances where an onsite union representative is present. It also seeks to identify whether the relationship between onsite representative presence and job quality is explained by employee perceptions of union collective voice. The analysis, based on a survey of union members in the UK finance sector, demonstrates that employee perceptions of several dimensions of job quality are better where an onsite representative is present, and that this can be explained by the higher perceptions of union collective voice that onsite representatives engender.

AB - This article seeks to identify whether employee perceptions of job quality are better in instances where an onsite union representative is present. It also seeks to identify whether the relationship between onsite representative presence and job quality is explained by employee perceptions of union collective voice. The analysis, based on a survey of union members in the UK finance sector, demonstrates that employee perceptions of several dimensions of job quality are better where an onsite representative is present, and that this can be explained by the higher perceptions of union collective voice that onsite representatives engender.

U2 - 10.1177/0143831X14555707

DO - 10.1177/0143831X14555707

M3 - Article

SN - 0143-831X

VL - 38

SP - 27

EP - 50

JO - ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY

JF - ECONOMIC AND INDUSTRIAL DEMOCRACY

IS - 1

ER -