Unionism and collective bargaining among U.S. state and local government employees are being widely debated, and some of these governments have sharply reduced or eliminated public employee unionism and bargaining rights. Such actions are based on a belief that fiscal adversity facing state and...

This study analyzes the relationship among plant-level measures of industrial relations performance, economic performance, and quality-of-working-life programs. The analysis employs pooled time-series and cross-section data from 18 plants within a division of General Motors for the years...

This paper compares the Butler and Ehrenberg analysis of the narcotic effects of impasse procedures, presented in the preceding article, with the purposes, methods, and empirical results of the authors' earlier paper on the same subject. The authors use the differences in the two papers to argue...

Analyzes collective bargaining among police and firefighter units in New York between 1968 and 1976 to test a model of the determinants of reliance on impasse procedures. Determinants of impasses; Environmental sources of impasse; Data and methods used; Implications. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)

Discusses the nature of the collective bargaining process in city governments in the United States. Concept of multilateral bargaining; Determinants of multilateral bargaining; Measurement of multilateral bargaining. (Abstract copyright EBSCO.)

Reports on the experience under the dual impasse procedures that govern bargaining in the Canadian federal sector under a 1967 law. Law and impasse procedure covering Canadian federal employees; Theoretical framework for assessing the factors affecting the ability of parties to reach settlements...

This paper explores the decline of union membership within partially organized firms. Using data from two Conference Board surveys of labor relations practices (1977 and 1983), the authors test a series of propositions concerning the effects of corporate industrial relations values and...

The authors examine competing theoretical arguments regarding whether union representation, shared governance, wage levels, and two features of the quality of labor relations--workplace culture and conflict in negotiations--lead to better or worse outcomes for airlines, and they test these...

Presents a quantification of both the wage and nonwage terms of union agreements designed to permit rigorous analysis of the determinants of collective bargaining outcomes. Cross-sectional analysis of the outcomes of bargaining between a sample of city governments and locals of the International...