title: Recognition. When the music stops.
abstract: Trade unions can no longer expect NHS employers automatically to recognise their role in negotiating employment terms and conditions on behalf of their members. NHS self-governing trusts are now free to set their own terms and conditions of employment--and to choose with whom they wish to negotiate. Roger Kline outlines the importance of recognition agreements.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Kline
mesh_terms: D003098:Collective Bargaining; D003284:Contract Services; D007750:Labor Unions; D013222:State Medicine / Q000458:organization & administration; D006113:United Kingdom