Provides both quantitative and qualitative analyses of union membership rejections of tentative agreements reached by management and union leaders. Background and limitations; Outline of the basic facts disclosed by the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service study; Causes of rejections....

Discusses the need to provide more equitable treatment to government employees without their resorting to strikes and within the processes of political democracy. Ban on strikes of government employees; Differences in constraints between private and public employment; Civil service factor in...