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In brief: Public Service Unions: Challenges of the Reform Agenda

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  • Stephen Bach
  • Rebecca Kolins Givan

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The government's 'modernisation' agenda for the public services has put considerable pressure on unions in the sector, giving them the dual challenges of articulating a coherent national policy response and ensuring effective organisation and representation at workplace level. These challenges are exemplified in their responses to the private finance initiative (PFI), which is now the dominant system of procuring public infrastructure. UNISON estimates that 100,000 of its 1.3 million members have been transferred to a private contractor or not-for-profit provider in recent years.

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  • Stephen Bach & Rebecca Kolins Givan, 2005. "In brief: Public Service Unions: Challenges of the Reform Agenda," CentrePiece - The magazine for economic performance 180, Centre for Economic Performance, LSE.
    • Handle: RePEc:cep:cepcnp:180
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