Cai, Minjie ORCID: 0000-0003-1739-0474, Moore, Sian, Ball, Chris ORCID: 0000-0001-7743-4577, Flynn, Matt and Mulkearn, Ken (2022) The role of union health and safety representatives during the COVID-19 pandemic: a case study of the UK food processing, distribution, and retail sectors. Industrial Relations Journal, 53 (4). pp. 390-407. ISSN 0019-8692 (Print), 1468-2338 (Online) (doi:https://doi.org/10.1111/irj.12377)

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Abstract

This article highlights the weakness of the UK's occupational health and safety infrastructure exposed by the COVID-19 pandemic. Utilising a political economy perspective, it captures the critical role of workplace union safety representatives in mitigating risk and contesting the expropriation of health and recommodification of labour, specifically inadequate sick pay.

Item Type:	Article
Uncontrolled Keywords:	employment relations; occupational health and safety; health and safety representation; trade union representation
Subjects:	H Social Sciences > HD Industries. Land use. Labor > HD61 Risk Management J Political Science > JN Political institutions (Europe) > JN101 Great Britain
Faculty / School / Research Centre / Research Group:	Faculty of Business Faculty of Business > Centre for Work and Employment Research (CREW) Faculty of Business > Department of Human Resources & Organisational Behaviour
Last Modified:	25 Jul 2022 09:18
URI:	http://gala.gre.ac.uk/id/eprint/36760

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