Nurses, cleaners, grocery store clerks and other unionized workers have been on the front lines of the fight against COVID-19. They should emerge from it with a greater level of respect.
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Even if employees don’t care about a particular cause to begin with, they will react positively or negatively to the reason they believe their organization is choosing to engage in that cause.
Internal documents reveal how police and government respond to protests or labour disputes that are framed as threats to national security, and how heavily corporations are involved.
Ordering Canada’s postal workers back on the job may hurt Justin Trudeau. CUPW could direct its anger directly at the Trudeau Liberals ahead of the 2019 federal election.
Ottawa has ordered postal workers back on the job, but is it constitutional? We should be circumspect about intervening in the bargaining process and skeptical about claims it’s in the public good.
Industrial action by Google workers shows collective representation is needed even in what is meant to be the best company in the world.
Did pride come before the fall for Ireland’s budget airline?
Do you reply to emails first thing in the morning and last thing at night? Your company should be insisting that you don’t.
The business models of the gig economy often stand in the way of implementing minimum wages or conditions.
The restaurant chain may well be trying to head off union pressure and sidestep collective action … but a win is a win.
We spend most of our waking hours at work, but are we really ourselves when we step through the door?
Back in 1663, it was all about staff getting the day off, now it’s all about boosting the coffers of the major stores.
We live in changing times. Let’s hope the power brokers work out how to manage them.
Israeli employers have always had a complicated relationship with Palestinian workers – and it’s getting worse.
The way the UK thinks about workplaces and workers means that those learning a trade are at a disadvantage. And that’s bad news as we attempt to add 3m apprentices to the mix.
When workers are living their lives online, it’s hard to see the joins between home and office. So how can employers answer the growing desire to seprate the seemingly inseparable?
The amount our workers produce has been stagnant for a while now, but there is a boost to be had in increasing labour force involvement in their jobs and the business.
Sovereign Wealth Funds have about $7 trillion to invest in the companies we work for – and new research shows that the biggest of them brings some extra benefits.
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Professor, Labour Studies, Brock University
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Associate Professor, Human Resource Management and Business Consulting, University of Guelph
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Professor of Finance, IE University
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Dean of Essex Business School, University of Essex
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Associate Professor of Labour and Employment Relations, DAN Department of Management & Organizational Studies, Western University
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Associate Professor, Labour studies, Brock University
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Professor of Accounting, Loughborough University
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Senior Research Associate, Nottingham Business School, Nottingham Trent University
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Principal Lecturer, Corporate Education, Faculty of Business and Law. Anglia Ruskin University. Human Resource Management, Anglia Ruskin University
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Professor of Human Resources Management, Henley Business School, University of Reading
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Professor, Sociology and Social Anthropology; Former Canada Research Chair in Sustainable Rural Futures for Atlantic Canada (2014-2025), Dalhousie University
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Professor of Law adn Social Justice, University of Sussex
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Senior Lecturer and Researcher in Innovation and Digital Leadership, University of Brighton
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Associate Professor UTS Centre for Business and Social Innovation, University of Technology Sydney
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Professor of Management, University of Leicester