The objective of this exercise is to teach you how to critically read, and understand, academic articles on HRM, and to be able to relate them to contemporary problems in the workplace.

Read the following article (available on the Moodle site):

Litwin, Adam Seth & Shay, Or (2021) What do unions do… for temps? Collective bargaining and the wage penalty. Industrial Relations, 61 (2): 193-227 Answer the following questions IN YOUR OWN WORDS (do NOT copy and paste sections of the article):

What is the article about?
Typically, temporary workers receive fewer benefits than permanent ones. Unions aim to secure better benefits for temporary workers. Research shows that unionized temporary workers generally earn higher wages than non-unionized counterparts. However, the actual impact depends on the relationship between the union and the employers. Sometimes, the effectiveness of unions in improving wages for temporary workers can be influenced by the dynamics of cooperation or conflict between the union and the employers. So, while unions can be beneficial for temporary workers, the specific outcomes vary based on these relationships

• What is the article’s argument?
  DO the Union Help the Temp staff get more ad
  Usually, they will get more when the Union have better relationship with the Employer
  Employer more intoward to win
• What are the strengths and weaknesses of this argument?
  S-confrontation represt work out the

• What data does the article use to support its argument?
  These aspects make WERS6 a robust and versatile dataset for analyzing the interplay between collective bargaining, labor relations orientation, and the temp wage penalty in the British workplace landscape.Management quest and employee quest, looking at the employment issues.
• What does the article conclude?
  Encourage to join Uion , yet not encourage uion to be confrontational
• Are you convinced by the article’s conclusions? Why or why not?
• How is this article similar to, and different from, the news article you read for Workshop Exercise 1?

Similar- same interest
Different – quality & qty
Different in 2 workshops

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