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Changing the Rules: Pressures on Trade Union Constitutions

In: Trade Unions and their Members

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  • Mairi Steele

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The focus of this chapter is trade union rules. Moreover, it is concerned primarily with the pressures which lead to significant changes being made to those rules and consequently to the structure and organization of trade unions. Following a general introduction discussing the changing nature of legal intervention in the internal affairs of trade unions and previous research in this area, the various pressures which lead to rule changes are analysed in detail. The chapter then examines the extent of rule changes which have taken place in the 1980s drawing on case study and questionnaire evidence. It is argued that the rules revision process is often overlooked in the analysis of trade unions. The level of rule change activity demonstrates that trade unions are not unwilling to change and adapt to new legislative, economic and industrial circumstances and that, as a consequence, union members are now more aware of the significance of their rule book.

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  • Mairi Steele, 1990. "Changing the Rules: Pressures on Trade Union Constitutions," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: Patricia Fosh & Edmund Heery (ed.), Trade Unions and their Members, chapter 3, pages 52-74, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-349-11931-8_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-349-11931-8_3
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