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...

The American labor market faces many deep-rooted problems, including persistence of a large low-wage sector, worsening inequality in earnings, employees' lack of voice in the workplace, and the need of employers to maximize flexibility if they are to survive in an increasingly competitive...

After decades of stability, labor-management relations are undergoing dramatic changes. The contributions collected in this book provide the best and most up-to-date summary of the extent and causes of this upheaval in industrial relations. They discuss challenges to union organizing, employer...

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...