.../methodology/approach The paper employs an international comparative approach comparing conflict data and employment relations models in Britain, France, Italy, Portugal and Poland. Findings Collective disputes are at lower levels in the 2000s than in earlier periods in each of the countries studied...

... Britain National Health Service Industrial relations Pay Work organization For 18 years successive Conservative governments implemented a series of initiatives to reform employment practices in the public services. In the NHS, by the late 1990s, the division between purchasers and providers...

... questions: 1. Do CAB volunteers fulfil a role which resembles that of the steward? 2. To what extent are CABx replacing representation through stewards? 3. Are CABx rival or complementary organisations in the area of employment advice? © MCB UP Limited 1998 Britain...