A framework for analyzing collective bargaining and labor relations -- The historical evolution of the U.S. labor relations system -- The law and legal systems -- The role of the environment -- Management strategies and structures for collective bargaining -- Union strategies and structures for...

I establish four facts regarding the pattern of NLRB supervised representation election activity over the past 45 years: 1) the quantity of election activity has fallen sharply and discontinuously since the mid-70's after increasing between the mid-1950's and the mid-1970's; 2) union success in...