United Buddy Bears in Ljublijana, Slovenia, 2024. An exhibition symbolising the diversity of the global community and promoting...

How organisations manage change is a critical activity. Key to this is how employees and their representatives get their voices heard. In...

The unionised organisations that I work with want to have constructive relationships with their unions and often refer to this in their...

Over the last few years, I have enjoyed regularly hosting a group of UK-based HRDs and employment relations leaders in large, unionised...

I have noticed a recurring theme in 2024 amongst the organisations I work with - how to develop effective methods for collective employee...

The new UK Government seems determined to resolve the long standing pay disputes. For the first time in a long time, we have heard...

Since the UK election, there have been positive comments made about the first meetings between the Government and unions on some of the...

Recognising the lack of learning opportunities for HR and Employment Relations specialists working in unionised organisations, Joe and I...

Many HR directors who I talk to, who work in unionised workplaces, struggle to recruit into employment relations roles. I have been told...

Over the years (decades even….) I have undertaken numerous collective employment relations audits or reviews. One was requested by an HRD...

Conflict and breakdowns in relationships between union representatives and employers are a common occurrence. They are also financially...

In 2022, Joe and I launched our employee relations and engagement development programme and so far, nearly 50 delegates from 9 of the...

For a very interesting project with my colleagues @ Joe Perry and @ Richard Saundry, I have read more about collective employment...

This week Joseph Perry and I have run our strategic employment relations network and begun preparing for our third development programme...

Our second Employment Relations and Engagement development programme finished last week. We ask the delegates to tell us what they are...

· If you don’t understand the business, will you make the right decisions? Find the solution to the actual problem, not the one presented...

I often advocate joint training for union reps and managers. It can help build relationships - essential when you are working on real...

Progress seems to have been made in some of the industrial disputes in the UK, although we still don’t know if offers put to employees...

A quarter of the delegates on our current ER and Engagement development programme are line managers. With hefty responsibilities in...

Choosing how to engage your employees – with unions or without or a mixed model – is a strategic issue which requires some thought....