Examination of a system of compulsory arbitration that has regulated labor relations for all public school teachers in British Columbia from 1937 through 1973. Description of the environment of labor relations in the country; Discussion of labor-management negotiations in British Columbia;...

Asserts that compulsory interest arbitration can provide benefits and impose various kinds of bargaining and political costs in a unionized workplace. Bases for denying public employees the right to strike; Discussion of some tests of the effectiveness of arbitration; Components of arbitration...

To test the hypothesis that government regulation of an industry's product market increases union power in that industry, this study first compares earnings and the "scores" of union contracts in airlines and manufacturing, and then compares negotiated wage rates and union contract scores in the...

Previous research and conventional wisdom suggest that the practice of collective bargaining, the availability of interest arbitration, and the use of arbitration when available all have a positive effect on salaries. In this study, believed to be the first to incorporate all those variables,...

This paper examines and assesses the behavioral content of industrial relations research in a variety of social science disciplines. The authors compare economic research on the wage and productivity consequences of unionism with psychological research on worker attitudes toward unions;...

This paper examines and assesses the behavioral content of industrial relations research in a variety of social science disciplines. The authors compare economic research on the wage and productivity consequences of unionism with psychological research on worker attitudes toward unions;...

Discussion of the expansion of the collective bargaining system in the public sector in the United States during the 1960s and early 1970s. Discussion of the types of third-party intervention to resolve work stoppages in the public sector; Comparison of the effectiveness of a conventional and a...

Examines the lack of union activity among white-collar employees in the private sector in Mexico. Background on the country's economic growth and political stability; Information on labor movement and industrial relations; Legal status of white-collar workers; Details on the existing management...

Focuses on the National Labor Relations Act and its significance to the development of multiplant units in the United States. Factors that led to the development of multiplant units; Decision made at the General Motors; Disadvantages of the act. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)