Trade Union Recognition

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This paper evaluates the implication of trade (TU) union recognition within the Insignia Hotel group. It examines the route that can be taken to TU recognition, including its advantages and disadvantages. It analyzes the hotel and catering sector and discusses why union decline has been a large characteristics of the industry - focusing on employee relations. It also looks at the impact that TU's could have on the HRCT sector and proposes some alternative approaches to employee relations.

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"The Hotel and Catering sector represents a changing part of the service sector, accounting for 70% of employment in the UK (Euromonitor, 2002). Low pay has always been a well-documented characteristic of the industry, not to mention the unsociable hours and high demands of the job. Trade unions (or rather lack of them) have been an issue of considerable interest to industry experts. To date the HRCT remains poorly organized regardless of the degree to which employees and employers have been supportive towards Trade Union recognition. Consequently in the absence of recognized trade unions decisions about pay for example are traditionally taken at establishment level."

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