Findings from the 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey by Mark Stuart and Andrew Robinson; Centre for Employment Relations, Innovation and Change University of Leeds

This report explores the potential effect of trade unions on training provision in the British workplace. It does this through an analysis of linked employeremployee data from the 2004 Workplace Employment Relations Survey (WERS). By disaggregating in terms of different levels of representation, the report shows that union recognition has a consistently positive effect not only on the extent to which employees are provided with training, but also on the amount of training they receive. We show that workplaces are more likely to offer higher levels of employee training (defined as 10 or more days of training per year) when they recognise trade unions, have some form of representative structure and where unions directly negotiate with management over training.

Mark Stuart and Andrew Robinson

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