Discusses the experience and work of Illinois Governor Otto Kerner's Advisory Commission on Labor-Management Policy for Public Employees. Previous legislative enactments; Organizational developments; Example of formal collective bargaining. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)

The intellectual health of the field of industrial relations continues to be a matter of concern among its students. The two articles in this Discussion are contributions to this continuing self-examination. The first is an evaluation of some recent criticisms of the field, and contains both...

Replies to Melville Dalton's comments on an article about local union-management relationship. Basis for development of general theoretical framework for study of union-management relations; Comparison of relationships; Improvement of method of mass data collection. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)

In recent years, especially since the 1959 steel strike, there has been active concern about the "hardening" of labor-management relations. At issue is the definition of the territory of management functions or rights that will remain outside the scope of collective bargaining. Despite the...

Examination of the relationship between collective bargaining and budget-making process in public institutions in Illinois. Relationship between the bargaining process and legal requirements for establishing fiscal years; Budget making by schools; Budget making by municipalities; Policy...

Examines the relations between collective bargaining in the public sector and budget-making under economic stress. Differences between the negotiating parties in assumptions about the budget; Implication of the tight economic situation for the duration of the bargaining period; Description of the...

A variety of approaches to the study of union-management relationships--the historical, the case study, and the survey method, to mention several--have been attempted by students of industrial and labor relations. The authors of this article are identified with the first major attempt to extend...

In this article, the Israeli industrial relations system is examined, with special focus upon the nature of labor relations at the plant level. Conditions in Israel are of particular interest, due both to the very "mixed" nature of that country's economic system, and to the example it provides...

Focuses on study of union-management relations. Probing of the bargaining process; Components of union-management relationships; Environmental factors affecting union-management relations. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)