The percentage of workers who choose not to join the union available to them at their
workplace has been rising in Britain and New Zealand. Using comparable data for both …

The New Zealand Worker Representation and Participation Survey, drawing on earlier
surveys in the USA and Britain, charts the incidence, location and nature of demand for …

This article uses individual-level data from the New Zealand Election Study surveys to
analyse trade union membership decline between 1990 and 2002. The abrupt decline in …

The orthodox interpretation of trade union development in New Zealand (and Australia)
holds that the unique antipodal systems of compulsory arbitration produced dependent …

This article details how New Zealand public policy changes have fostered employment
relations arrangements which are dominated by workplace bargaining, individual …

A union default would empower unions to extend membership and representation to
nonunion employers but still allow workers to opt‐out and, thereby, free‐ride. Though most …

The purpose of this report is to examine the factors that have influenced recent changes in
collective bargaining. This is in the context of section 134 (1)(b) of the Fair Work Act 2009 …

This article questions the perception of non-union workers as rather rigid and out-of-reach
non-unionists by using research conducted in New Zealand. It explores whether, under new …

While there is a strong logic favouring co-operation, it faces a central problem: the “free
rider” or “cheat.” Collectives find ways of promoting norms of solidarity and seek regulation …

Union security has long been an industrial relations controversy. While compulsory
unionism supporters say it benefits the working class, right-to-work advocates denounce it …