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Union recognition in Britain's offshore oil and gas industry: implications of the Employment Relations Act 1999
Matthias BeckCharles Woolfsonsubject
Liaison committeebusiness.industrymedia_common.quotation_subjectIndustrial relationsBusinessInternational tradeIndustrial relationsOffshore oil and gasLegitimacyDemocracyOffshore industrymedia_commondescription
The Employment Relations Act 1999 (ERA) has provided trade unions in the UK with new opportunities for achieving recognition. After a long history of anti-unionism in the offshore oil and gas industry, employers have voluntarily ceded recognition to Trades Union Congress (TUC)-affiliated trade unions. The legitimacy of this recognition process has been contested by the non-TUC Offshore Industry Liaison Committee (OILC), an offshore workers’ union, seeking to act as a recognised bargaining agent. The ERA may be promoting ‘business friendly’ agreements at the expense of claims to recognition of other bargaining agents and of democratic employee choice.
| year | journal | country | edition | language |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2004-07-01 | Industrial Relations Journal |