Principal speaker
Michelle O'Sullivan
Abstract: This case study examines voice and non-unionism in a large non-union US multinational plant.
Regarding voice, we find that a majority took action to address problems but reported an unsatisfactory outcome. The case study also reveals why the low skill, blue collar employees did not collectivise despite the existence of grievances until mass redundancies.
Dr O’Sullivan discusses where inhibiting conditions dominate and where management control is pervasive in gaining worker consent and stifling the possibility of a collective response from workers.
Speaker: Dr. Michelle O'Sullivan is a Lecturer in Industrial Relations at the University of Limerick, Ireland and previously worked as a trade union official in the health sector.
She has published in the areas of wage setting in precarious work, employment equality law, employment relations in non-union companies and workplace bullying and is co-author of the textbook Industrial Relations in Ireland (2013).
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