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MOU Convergence: Trade Union Discourse and Practice

MOU Convergence: Trade Union Discourse and Practice
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Copyright: 2019
Pages: 23
Source title: Social Partnership and Governance Under Crises
Source Author(s)/Editor(s): Carol Nelson (University of the West Indies, Jamaica)
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-5225-8961-7.ch008

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Abstract

Several historical, sociocultural, and political dimensions have shaped the development and the discourse and practice of the trade union movement. The characteristics of “traditional” trade union discourse and practice are explored, providing a contextual understanding for the contest, challenge, and change evidenced by the process of translation into the MOU actor network. There are several implications for the “identity,” “relational,” and “ideational” aspects of trade union discourse and industrial relations practice by convergence with the MOU actor network. However, while relationships within the black box of network interaction affords the union movement prominence and access to the powerful halls of leadership and governance, the union constituency becomes contested in acceding to discoursal change and practice resulting in “boxing and dancing” within the new context of diminished adversarialism.

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