What is it about?
This article complements the literature by furthering the understanding of an ‘African dimension’ of multinational enterprise (MNE) union avoidance. The evidence suggests that MNEs engaged in both union suppression and union substitution strategies by (i) exploiting young employees’ apathy to promote opposition and indifference for union organisation (evil stuff), (ii) implementing union member-centred employee retrenchment (fear stuff), (iii) using enterprise-level collective bargaining arrangement to suppress union bargaining power (fear and fatal stuff), (iv) exploiting the fragmented labour union environment to suppress union organisation (fatal and evil stuff) and (v) promoting individual employee voice and involvement mechanisms (sweet stuff). Although MNEs in Ghana engaged in both union suppression and union substitution strategies, they appear to particularly favour the adoption of ‘union suppression’ strategies and what might be termed as ‘corridor tactics’.
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Why is it important?
Our article highlights four transitional issues underpinning the emerging success of ‘corridor tactics’ in union suppression in a less developed host country.
Perspectives
This article contributes to the understanding of an ‘African dimension’ of multinational enterprise (MNE) union avoidance literature as there is a dearth of research that examines the processes of union substitution and union suppression in developing economies in sub-Saharan Africa
Dr Desmond Tutu Ayentimi
University of Tasmania
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This page is a summary of: Union suppression and union substitution strategies of multinational enterprises in Ghana, Industrial Relations Journal, July 2019, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/irj.12264.
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