Steve Davies

Honorary Research Fellow Prifysgol Caerdydd

daviess27@cardiff.ac.uk 2920874435 @unioneyes

Mae'r cynnwys hwn ar gael yn Saesneg yn unig.

Current Research:

The public service ethos and trade union membership
Outsourcing public services to the third sector Union organising around global sports mega-events
Trade union use of International Framework Agreements along international supply chains
Public service reform in Wales

Trade Union Membership, Associational Life and Wellbeing

Overview This project builds on previous WISERD research into geographical variations in trade union membership in Wales. (Beynon, Davies and Davies, 2012). The research programme derives from this analysis, which suggested that in South Wales collective understandings, rooted in an earlier period of unionisation, are spilling over into the contemporary period. This work was supported…

Research Team: Alex Bryson (Adran y Gwyddorau Cymdeithasol, UCL), Helen Blakely (Prifysgol Caerdydd), Huw Beynon (Prifysgol Caerdydd), Rhys Davies (Prifysgol Caerdydd), Steve Davies (Prifysgol Caerdydd)

Undebau Llafur a’r Cyfryngau Cymdeithasol

Mae’r prosiect hwn ar hyn o bryd yn ystyried gwerth posibl dadansoddi patrymau rhithwir o ran trefn a symudiadau undebau llafur, ac, yn benodol, cyfraniad y cyfryngau cymdeithasol at ailraddio undebaeth lafur. Mae hyn yn cynnwys cysylltiadau rhithwir mudiad yr undebau llafur â mathau eraill o actifiaeth gymdeithasol a gwleidyddol, ynghyd â’r ffurfiau rhithwir ar…

Research Team: Helen Blakely (Prifysgol Caerdydd), Huw Beynon (Prifysgol Caerdydd), Rhys Davies (Prifysgol Caerdydd), Steve Davies (Prifysgol Caerdydd), Wil Chivers (Prifysgol Caerdydd)

Adroddiadau a Briffiau

Trade Union Responses to the Changing World of Work

This report focuses on the strategic capacity of unions to both develop old, and build new, resources and capabilities in response to the rapidly changing world of work. While there are important variations across countries and regions, a number of global trends present challenges to trade unions.

Arall

Investigating the Patterns and Prevalence of UK Trade Unionism on Twitter

This paper reports on on-going exploratory research into the prevalence and patterns of social media use by trade unions in the United Kingdom. Social media platforms, like Twitter, are used by unions to organize and mobilize existing and potential members by communicating relevant content, which often engages politicians and the news media. However, there is…

Data a Dulliau, Gwaith a marchnadoedd llafur, Y Gymdeithas Sifil | Undebau Llafur a’r Cyfryngau Cymdeithasol | Gorffennaf 2017

Adroddiadau a Briffiau

Labour is part of the team: A manual for campaigning in mega-sporting events

There are many ways of looking at global sports and the mega-events that they have created. This manual examines global sports mega-events from the point of view of the unions that represent the workers who make them possible – not the athletes and coaches, but primarily the construction workers who build the stadia and textile…

Anghydraddoldeb, Gwaith a marchnadoedd llafur | Mehefin 2017

Working Paper

Chinese multinationals: threat to, or opportunity for, trade unions? The case of Sinohydro in Ghana

There is a growing literature on global Chinese companies, but this tends to be at a very general level. There is little research to date on the effect of Chinese involvement on workers and their unions. Although focussed on one company, SINOHYDRO, this paper addresses questions of importance to construction unions globally: What is the…

Anghydraddoldeb, Gwaith a marchnadoedd llafur | Mai 2017

Erthyglau Cyfnodolyn

Sources of variation in trade union membership across the UK: the case of Wales

This article deals with issues relating to trade union density and the fact that while over the past 30 years, union densities have followed a declining path in all regions, this retreat was not uniform across space. Analysis of the Labour Force Survey reveals that Wales exhibits among the highest levels of union density in…

Gwaith a marchnadoedd llafur, Lleoliadau, Y Gymdeithas Sifil | Mai 2012

Newyddion Uncategorized

Y gorffennol yn y presennol: Ystyried gwaith codi glo a streic y glowyr yn 1984-85

18 Ebrill 2024 | Huw Beynon, Ian Rees Jones, Steve Davies

Ar 2 Mawrth 2024, cafodd y 40 mlynedd ers streic y glowyr ei nodi mewn cynhadledd WISERD yn Adeilad Bute, Prifysgol Caerdydd, gydag ymgyrchwyr, undebwyr llafur, ymchwilwyr a chynhyrchwyr ffilmiau’n bresennol. Agorwyd y gynhadledd drwy ddangos y ffilm, Breaking Point, a wnaed ac a gyflwynwyd gan y cyfarwyddwr enwog o Sweden, Kjell-Åke Andersson. Gwnaed y…

Anghydraddoldeb, Data a Dulliau, Gwaith a marchnadoedd llafur, Iechyd, Lles a Gofal Cymdeithasol, Lleoliadau, Y Gymdeithas Sifil

Yn yr wasg

Rhaglen ar ITV yn rhoi sylw i streic y glowyr rhwng 1984 a 85

8 Mawrth 2024 | Helen Blakely, Huw Beynon, Ian Rees Jones, Jean Jenkins, Martin O'Neill, Rhys Davies, Steve Davies

Yn dilyn ein digwyddiad diweddar, ‘Y gorffennol yn y presennol: Y diwydiant glo a streic y glowyr 1984-85’ cawsom sylw ar raglen arbennig ar ITV Wales, a ddarlledwyd dydd Llun 4 Mawrth yn canolbwyntio ar ddigwyddiadau 1984-85 a’u dylanwad o hyd ar economi, pobl, gwleidyddiaeth a chymunedau Cymru. Gwyliwch un o’n siaradwyr yn y digwyddiad,…

Gwaith a marchnadoedd llafur, Y Gymdeithas Sifil

Blogiau

Ton Streiciau’r Deyrnas Unedig: ‘ydy’r genie allan o’r botel’?

16 Mai 2023 | Helen Blakely, Steve Davies

Daeth 2023 â thon newydd o streiciau yn dilyn chwe mis o weithredu diwydiannol cynyddol ar draws y wlad. Pleidleisiodd mwy a mwy o weithwyr, gan gynnwys rhai mewn rolau allweddol yn y sector cyhoeddus, dros weithredu diwydiannol, yn aml gyda mwyafrifoedd enfawr ymhell dros ben y trothwy pleidleisio uchel a osodwyd gan ddeddfwriaeth y…

Gwaith a marchnadoedd llafur

Blogiau

Leverage campaigns and how they work

30 Medi 2021 | Steve Davies

In this third and final part of my blog series exploring the recent election of new Unite leader, Sharon Graham, I’ll be focusing on leverage campaigns and how they work. As a highly contentious topic, they form a key part of Graham’s strategy for organising Unite into a union of “strike ready workplaces”, but are…

Gwaith a marchnadoedd llafur

Blogiau

So who is Sharon Graham and what does she stand for?

30 Medi 2021 | Steve Davies

In the second part of this three-post blog series exploring the recent election of new Unite leader, Sharon Graham, I’ll explain a bit more about her priorities and approach. I’ll focus more on one particular aspect of her strategy in the final part of the series: Leverage campaigns and how they work. I interviewed her…

Gwaith a marchnadoedd llafur

Blogiau

Unite’s shock election result

29 Medi 2021 | Steve Davies

With both the TUC and Labour holding annual conferences one after the other, much attention was on the unions’ newest leader, Sharon Graham. Her election as general secretary of the UK and Ireland’s most important union, Unite, came as a shock to most of the commentariat. In this, the first part of a three-post blog…

Gwaith a marchnadoedd llafur

Blogiau

The pit closures of the 1980s – part of Mrs Thatcher’s green eco-strategy?

9 Awst 2021 | Steve Davies

The 1984-85 miners’ strike has once again hit the headlines, despite ending 36 years ago. This time what has grabbed the media’s attention is a claim by Prime Minister Boris Johnson that Margaret Thatcher’s closure of the pits after the strike was part of a green, eco-strategy of the Conservative government. On a visit to…

Gwaith a marchnadoedd llafur | Trade Union Membership, Associational Life and Wellbeing, Undebau llafur, actifiaeth llawr gwlad ac undod

Blogiau

COVID-19: the role of trade unions

8 Mehefin 2020 | Helen Blakely, Steve Davies

The impact of Covid-19 on the economy and the world of work is unprecedented: full or partial lockdown measures are affecting approximately 80 per cent of the global workforce, with the harshest effects falling disproportionately on unprotected workers and those working in the informal economy[1]. For trade unions, the Covid-19 pandemic has cast light on…

Gwaith a marchnadoedd llafur, Y Gymdeithas Sifil | Trade Union Membership, Associational Life and Wellbeing

Newyddion

WISERD yn lansio gwasanaeth UnionMaps rhyngweithiol

9 Medi 2019 | Alex Bryson, Helen Blakely, Huw Beynon, Rhys Davies, Steve Davies

Heddiw, mae WISERD yn cyflwyno gwasanaeth rhyngweithiol newydd sy’n galluogi defnyddwyr i weld data am aelodau undebau yn ardaloedd dros 400 o awdurdodau unedol a lleol Prydain. Mae UnionMaps yn galluogi defnyddwyr i gynhyrchu adroddiadau ardal o aelodaeth undebau ar gyfer lleoliad penodol neu edrych ar sut mae mesurau gwahanol o aelodaeth undebau yn amrywio…

Data a Dulliau, Gwaith a marchnadoedd llafur, Lleoliadau, Y Gymdeithas Sifil | Trade Union Membership, Associational Life and Wellbeing

Newyddion

Cyflwyniad WISERD yng Nghyngres 2019 y TUC

28 Awst 2019 | Helen Blakely, Katy Huxley, Rhys Davies, Steve Davies, Wil Chivers

Ddydd Llun 9fed Medi, bydd rhai o ymchwilwyr WISERD Prifysgol Caerdydd, Steve Davies, Rhys Davies, Helen Blakely, Katy Huxley a Wil Chivers, yn cyflwyno gerbron Cyngres y TUC ganfyddiadau diweddaraf ein hymchwil i aelodau undebau llafur y deyrnas. Bydd 151ain gynhadledd flynyddol y gyngres yng Nghanolfan Brighton a bydd yno gannoedd o gynadleddwyr i gynrychioli…

Data a Dulliau, Gwaith a marchnadoedd llafur, Lleoliadau, Y Gymdeithas Sifil | Trade Union Membership, Associational Life and Wellbeing, Undebau Llafur a’r Cyfryngau Cymdeithasol

Newyddion

Global trade union organisation recognises WISERD’s research impact

24 Gorffennaf 2018 | Helen Blakely, Steve Davies

The importance of a new report Trade Union Responses to the Changing World of Work, written by Dr Helen Blakely and Dr Steve Davies, which looks at the trade union responses to the changing world of work around the world, has been recognised by UNI Global Union. In a letter from UNI Global Union’s General Secretary,…

Anghydraddoldeb, Gwaith a marchnadoedd llafur, Y Gymdeithas Sifil | Trade Union Membership, Associational Life and Wellbeing

Newyddion

Young people are leading a growing movement against low pay and precarious work

28 Mehefin 2018 | Helen Blakely, Steve Davies, Wil Chivers

Strikes have taken place at McDonald’s and TGI Friday’s restaurants across the UK in recent months. These strikes are the first of their kind in the UK, instigated by a new generation of trade union members fighting for better pay and fairer working conditions. At the Wales Institute of Social and Economic Research, Data and…

Anghydraddoldeb, Gwaith a marchnadoedd llafur, Y Gymdeithas Sifil | Trade Union Membership, Associational Life and Wellbeing, Undebau Llafur a’r Cyfryngau Cymdeithasol

Blogiau

Trade Union responses to the changing world of work

29 Mai 2018 | Helen Blakely, Steve Davies

WISERD researcher Dr Helen Blakely is working with UNI Global Union to identify trade unions’ responses to the changing world of work from around the world. This work is being presented at UNI Global Union’s World Congress in June 2018, the largest single global union gathering in the UK in 2018. Here they outline some…

Gwaith a marchnadoedd llafur, Y Gymdeithas Sifil | Trade Union Membership, Associational Life and Wellbeing

Blogiau

How the UK’s first #McStrike was tweeted

27 Ebrill 2018 | Helen Blakely, Steve Davies, Wil Chivers

In September 2017, McDonald’s workers went on strike for the first time in the UK. Researchers at WISERD analysed the social media conversation that surrounded the ‘McStrike’ at the time. With a second McStrike scheduled for the 1st May Wil Chivers, Helen Blakely and Steve Davies outline key findings from this research. Young workers unite…

Anghydraddoldeb, Gwaith a marchnadoedd llafur, Y Gymdeithas Sifil | Undebau Llafur a’r Cyfryngau Cymdeithasol

Seminar

TUC Congress 2019 “The report of my death has been greatly exaggerated”: The resilience and renewal of trade unions

9 Medi 2019 | Brighton

Unions have faced decades of hostile legislation designed to make them ineffective, have seen the collapse of parts of the economy that were union strongholds and the growth of precarious work. They have been written off as out of date and out of time. Yet although union density and membership have declined since the 1980s,…

Cynhadledd

The UNI Leadership Summit on the Future World of Work

9 Hydref 2017

Helen Blakely presented findings from ongoing work with Steve Davies to an audience of over 100 experts, activists, and academics gathered at UNI Global Union’s headquarters for the “Future World of Work Leadership Summit,” a discussion on the challenges and solutions to digitization.

Hyfforddiant

Campaigning unions, Devolved government: reflections on state, unions and civil society

12 Tachwedd 2015 | Caerdydd

Based on a series of interviews with trade union leaders in Wales, this presentation examined how the changes around devolution have provided opportunities for trade unions in Wales to influence governmental decision making that do not exist in England. However there are limits to this, and the presentation also reviewed how trade unions in Wales are using…

Seminar

Fighting Back: What Lessons Can Be Learned From the Union Struggles of the 1980s?

28 Chwefror 2013 | Caerdydd

The 1980s was a time of mass closure of manufacturing and mining industries in Britain.