- Go slow
- Workers do jobs as slowly as possible
- Productivity decreases
- Overtime ban
- Refuse to work longer than standard working week
- Damaging for firms that rely on overtime to meet important orders on time
Trade union membership in decline
- 12 million in 1970s to 7 million now
- Laws in 1980s reduced power of unions
- Fewer people work in manufacturing
- Employment Relations Act (1999) increased union power
- Businesses behave in ways to make workers less likely to join unions
- Set up works councils to discuss concerns with management
- Consult workers about management decisions
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