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"This research conducted under the auspices of the Industrial Relations Section at the Sloan School of Management at the Masschusetts Institute of Technology."

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...

In 1997 Kaiser Permanente (KP) and a coalition of 26 local unions representing nearly 70,000 Kaiser employees created what is now the nation's largest and most ambitious labor-management partnership. In 2000, the parties faced the major challenge of negotiating their first labor agreement under...