Add to ORKGRecent pay reform efforts in Zambia have sought to generate more competitive wages and benefits for workers in the public sector. However, these efforts have been characterised by inconsistent policy decisions during wage negotiations. Such decisions produce distortions in the pay structure that result in industrial unrest from unions in the public sector. Previous literature has not examined how public sector unions influence these outcomes in Zambia. This article examines factors that affect public sector unions’ influence in Zambia. Seven factors were identified after analysing the 2013 wage negotiations and subsequent nurses’ strikes at the University Teaching Hospital (UTH) as an extended case study. Most variables decreased union infl...
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Collective bargaining has been regarded as the best method for determining wages and other employmen...
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The paper examines Trade Unions the role they have been playing in promoting good working conditions...
Although the aim of collective bargaining is to eventually reach a mutual agreement, there is usuall...
Being based on oral interviews, archival records and much of the published literature on the topic a...
This article discusses the strategic responses by public-sector unions to new public management (NPM...
Trade unions represent the employees' interest to the employers. The right to form and join a trade ...
In Zambia, the privatisation of state owned companies is challenging job security, working condition...
Philosophiae Doctor - PhDThe thesis examines the implications of Public Sector Reform (PSR) for publ...
This study analyses a baseline dataset collected for an evaluation of a co-operation project that as...
<p>This paper reports a study undertaken to investigate the negotiation strategies that the Universi...
The focus of this study centered on investigating the perceptions and opinions surrounding the erupt...
In much of Africa, people look to trade unions for leadership, especially at times of economic downt...
Collective bargaining has been regarded as the best method for determining wages and other employmen...
This paper analyzes the impact of trade unions on remuneration in the Estonian public sector. In thi...
This is a study of some of the major aspects of the development of post-colonial labour policy in Za...
This article analyses how, through adopting responsibility for their co-workers’ livelihoods, workpl...
The paper examines Trade Unions the role they have been playing in promoting good working conditions...
Although the aim of collective bargaining is to eventually reach a mutual agreement, there is usuall...
Being based on oral interviews, archival records and much of the published literature on the topic a...