Voluntarism to post voluntarism

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Voluntarism to post voluntarism

• Bert Clough

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Three Stages

• 1960s 1970s neo-corporatist system underpinned
  by formal tripartite social partnership
• 1980s-late 1990s employer-dominated system with
  unions marginalised
• Late 1990s present increasingly centralised
  government system with informal partnership
  arrangements

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Unions in a Cold Climate

• TECs
• National education and training targets
• NVQs
• IIP
• Bargaining for Skills

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New Labour Institutions

• ILAs
• University for Industry
• LSC
• RDAs
• SSCs
• Commission for Employment and Skills

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Post Voluntarism

• Employer-led (not employment-led) institutions
• Little regulation of labour market
• Management prerogative still determines demand
• Intervention when market failure -Train to Gain
• Entitlements to training for low skilled
• Possible employer obligation in future
• No statutory collective bargaining over training
• Enhanced union capacity- ULRs/ULF/ unionlearn