with the union can lead to strikes. Additionally, power asymmetries, reputation-building, and internal union politics can …

councils are associated with reduced strike activity. However, where union members make up a majority of works councillors …, such union-dominated councils experience greater strike activity than do their counterparts with minority union membership …, and also more strikes than establishments with union workplace representation where union members are in a minority …

finished goods during a strike. Firms and the union are both risk neutral and have the same discount rate. It is shown that the … firm's threat point post-1982. Formal tests support the theory. Also consistent with the theory, it is found that union … wages decrease with inventories after 1982, but not before, and that the union wage gap is smaller after 1982 …

and taxpayer. Under this view, courts have characterized public employee union membership as "disloyal," "inimical to … the absence of a union; but are they raised above comparable levels in the private sector at the expense of taxpayers, or …