Employee forums in the UK: friend or foe of trade unions?
Bibliographic record
Abstract
"With a tradition of informing and consulting employees resting on a single \nunion channel, the 2002 EU Information and Consultation (ICE) Directive \nwas bound to have a significant impact on employee relations in the UK \nUndoubtedly, the works council as an institution, or employee forum as it \nis often referred to in the UK, represents a totally new departure in UK \nemployment relations. The article specifically focuses on the repercussions \nemployee forums might have for trade unions. We focus on two \ncompanies which have both recently founded employee forums to comply \nwith ICE regulation. We ask whether such forums should be considered as \nposing a threat to British trade unions, or platform for revitalising their \nposition within the workplace." (author's abstract)
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.007 | 0.001 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.007 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.035 | 0.016 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Open science | 0.013 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; both teacher heads agree on what is shown here.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".