Statutory Regulation and Employment Relations: The Impact of Statutory Trade Union Recognition

A comprehensive socio-legal evaluation of the 2000 statutory recognition procedure over ten years of its operation. Whilst exploring its implications for the so-called UK 'voluntarist' approach to regulating industrial relations, the authors argue that the effectiveness of the procedure was constrained by its design. Sian Moore, Sonia McKay and Sarah Veale Introduction 1. Locating the 2000 Statutory Recognition Procedure 2. A Legislative Prompt? The TUC Perspective on the 2000 Recognition Procedure 3. Third Time Lucky? - The Operation and Outcomes of the Statutory Recognition Procedure 4. Challenging Recognition - The Legitimacy of Employer Behaviour 5. Organising for Recognition - Union Strategies 6. Be Careful What You Wish For - Unfair Practices and the Law 7. The Fragmentation of Representation - 'Contract-based Recognition' 8. The Future for Statutory Recognition