DEVELOPMENTS IN TRADE-UNIONISM IN THE FINANCIAL SECTOR IN BRITAIN

This article puts forward evidence to argue that finance workers, espe cially bank workers, in Britain are becoming more 'unionate'. This is not to argue that these workers are becoming 'militant' for while the developments are significant they remain cautious and uneven. An exami nation is made of why these developments have occurred and how they re late to the employers' human resource policies, why the growth in trad e unionism in the financial sector runs counter to a trend of decline elsewhere and why significant differences in trade unionism exist with in the different components in the financial sector.