HR MANAGEMENT AND UNION RELATIONSHIP

  Union Strategy , Trade unions have immense challenges ahead of them. It is hard to be a union member today, Technological and economic changes alter the nature and type of jobs (Visser, 2019) . Membership in traditional unions has sharply declined over the past two decades in the Figure 1.   Figure: 1 – Trade union density among employees.                                                                  (Source: Resolution Foundation, 2017)   In the face of this rejection of conventional bargaining efforts, several attempts have been made to create alternative “quasi-union” or “alt-labor” relationships between workers and employers (Hirsch and Seiner, 2018) . ·        Quasi-union: Wide range of organizations that have developed to represen...

  HR MANAGEMENT AND UNION RELATIONSHIP.   Management Strategy, Management has become more powerful by hindering the trade unions through approaches like downsizing, subcontracting, and outsourcing (Dhal, 2015). ·         Downsizing, The most lucrative organizations, use downsizing more strategically as part of an overall workforce policy. Layoffs become just one tool in a portfolio of alternatives to improve firm performance (Cascio, 2009) . Downsizing the workforce will weaken the trade unions as they lost members, thereby indirectly adding more power to management (Dhal, 2015). ·        Subcontracting and outsourcing, Subcontracting/Outsourcing are based on an obligation to provide results; the service provider takes entire responsibility for the management of the outsourced activity (Guers, Martin and Wybo, 2015) . This will allow employer to achieve the target with a smaller number of employees directly under ...