Industrial Relations

Running head: INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS
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Introduction
The field of academia that focusses on the study of employment relationship is known
as Industrial relations (Lavelle 2019). The purpose of the paper is to compare the industrial
relations in between USA and UK. The comparison of the industrial relations will
demonstrate the differences and similarities regarding the features and application of
Industrial Relations. The paper will present examples regarding the features of industrial
relation of the Pacific Island country by reflecting its similarity and differences from USA
and UK. The paper will be concluded by presenting a summary regarding the overall
perspective of contrasting and similar features regarding industrial relations.
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Employers' association:
In United Kingdom, most of significant employer’s association have been acquired by
women. The concept of industrial relations reflects the collective meaning of administering
and governing employment relationships, specifically collective bargaining. The increasing
Human Resource Management Practices portrayed challenges on the easy assumptions and
resulted in the state of debate in UK and US. The reasons behind challenge can be the
dilemma of industrial relations being a subset under Human Resource Management and
possess declining significance due to the weakening of roles and importance of unions in
organization of United States and United Kingdom (Gooberman, Hauptmeier and Heery
2019). In United States, the service offerings of helping and informing labor union in regards
with labor law and legal matters, was suppressed by the Supreme Court. Employers
association both in United Kingdom and United States are weak in relation to the contribution
to employee welfare rights.
The employer association in countries like Vanuatu is better than U.K.

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Trade Unions:
The membership rate of trade or labor union in UK started declining in 1980s and in
1990s, from around 13 million in the year 1979 to approximately 7.3 million during 2000.
The data of September 2012 was lowest since 1940s, less than 6 million. Usually the
membership subscription is paid through DOCAS (Deduction of Contributions at Source).
The potential regulation of incorporating the practice of Deducting Subscriptions through
wages in Public Sector was delayed for 2019. The trade union memberships in United
Kingdom is around 6.35 million.
The state of Union membership of U.S. was similar to UK as the numbers were
decreasing at a faster rate. The data of 2016 of around 14.6 million memberships as compared
to 17.7 million during 1983 demonstrated the decline. The 2018 data of union membership in
U.S. is around 14.7 million.
Union memberships in Pacific Island countries like Vanuatu is declining with
minimum groups.
Role of the State:
The government of Britain was heavily affected by EU, which can be considered as a
state as the British parliamentary system review each law and regulations before execution.
With Britain approaching towards the decision of Brexit, the influence and role of state on
industrial relation in United Kingdom from EU will decline.
On the other hand, the influences of US state on industrial relations is practiced
beyond the role by projecting rules for terms and conditions in employment and by regulating
the interaction between management and labor. ‘Employment at will’ is practiced in United
States which results in job insecurity. In countries like Samoa, the state, employer and
employee groups determines the rules of workplace together unlike U.S.