Employee Voice in the Anglo-American World: An Overview of Five National Surveys

Abstract

Drawing on data from a linked series of large-scale worker surveys in the United States, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, this paper identifies and analyzes key features and developments in employee voice across the Anglo-American world. These include the extent and nature of unsatisfied demand for union membership and free-riding, as well as the diversity and variation in supply of and preferences for employee voice of different types, in the different countries.