Workplace industrial relations in a developing environment: barriers to renewal within unions in Malaysia

• Main Authors: Naresh Kumar, Raduan Che Rose, Miguel Martinez Lucio
• Format: Indexed Article
• Published: Wiley 2013
• Online Access: http://discol.umk.edu.my/id/eprint/7481/; http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1744-7941.2012.00053.x/full

In this paper we examine the views of employees from unionized companies and trade union leaders on the barriers to trade union activities in Malaysia through reference to survey data. These barriers are political, social and economic. The system of Malaysian industrial relations is not necessarily...