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4 Poly L. Rev. 1 (1978-1979)

handle is hein.journals/polylawr4 and id is 1 raw text is: Volume 4 no 1 Autumn Poly Law Review Grunwick Jamie Ritchie The Central Arbitration Commit tee Professor k W Rideout Workplace Injuries and Occupatiol al Disease Bowes Egan Worker Participation in Occupational Safety Dr R W L Howells The Inefficacy of the Equal Pay Act Shelley Adams Student Unions and the Law Randy Fields The Effectivenesss of the European Convention on Human Rights -a conference report Lars Mosesson Constitutional Deviations and Ripening Revolutions Hamish Tristram Book Reviews Books Received 3 A trade union is a continuous association of wage earners for the purpose of maintaining or improving their working lives 9 Sidney and Beatrice Webb The role of trade unions is basically a defensive one. They exist to defend the interests of the workers whether in relation to 13 technical change or economic pressure. Necessarily that involves them in seeking increases in pay whether this is due to inflation or to an increase in total production. Equally, changes in hours 19 of work, holidays and age of retirement can represent both a taking of the share of increase production in this manner, or a defensive reduction in the number of days given to production 29 because of economic recession. Increasingly trade unionists play a larger role both at work and in 35 society. At work the spread of trade unionism from manual worker to staff, and now to manager, marks the growth of mergers and the distancing of top management from the scene of production. Thus trade unions are wider based and better equip- 41 ped to analyse and discuss corporate strategy. Industrial changes, whether technical or economic, press them to seek a voice in decisions. This is the genesis of the pressures for some form of Industrial Democracy. The argument now is what type of Indust- 45 rial Democracy, not whether there should be any. The arguments in the Movement over its form continue, but as practical expe- rience grows theory will be replaced by a core of hard earned knowledge. The relationship between Government and trade unions is an acid test. Destroyed by Fascists, absorbed by Communists, the exis- 50 tence of an independent trade union movement is the hallmark of democracy. Even in democracies relations between unions and Government vary amazingly. Trade unions apply three tests to Governments - are they basically hostile; are they prepared to co-operate towards common ends; do their policies aim at an increased standard of living that will benefit trade unionists? Governments that fear unions and legislate to restrict them ensure that industrial peace will not exist. Those, as in Germany and Sweden, that institutionalise co-operative relations with unions get the best return. Those Governments that organise the econ- omy in such a way that they fail to secure a continuing increase in living standards will have problems of the kind that currently beset the West-and will apply in the East as stagnation increas- ingly affects them. (continued on back cover) Contents COMMENT

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