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- Title
Does Non-Union Employee Representation Act as a Complement or Substitute to Union Voice? Evidence from Canada and the United States.
- Authors
Campolieti, Michele; Gomez, Rafael; Gunderson, Morley
- Abstract
This paper examines two central questions related to non-union employee representation (NER) in Canada and the United States. First, using Taras and Kaufman's (2006) four faces NER approach, we ask whether non-union and union forms of voice act as substitutes or complements for employees at the workplace? Second, we ask whether non-union forms of employee representation serve to deflect any latent desire for traditional union voice. We find that NER is negatively related to the presence of unionization at the workplace; it appears to reduce the desire to be unionized. This substitution effect proves to be stronger in Canada than in the United States.
- Subjects
UNITED States; CANADA; NONUNION employees; INDUSTRIAL relations; LABOR union personnel; LABOR organizing; SUBSTITUTION (Psychology); LABOR unions &; management; INDUSTRIAL relations research
- Publication
Industrial Relations, 2013, Vol 52, Issue S1, p378
- ISSN
0019-8676
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/irel.12007