Three key ideas about how unions should best respond to declining union membership have become gospel in the United States labor community. First, unions should avoid the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), because it is hostile to worker rights. Second, the biggest problem facing unions is...

In this paper, we demonstrate that the court-developed doctrine which allows an employer to implement its final offer upon reaching an impasse has now become a tool for lawlessness and that this important explanation for the decline of union membership in the United States has been wrongly...

Despite the popularity of work force cutbacks in the 1990s, large-scale empirical studies at the bargaining unit level are rare. I explore some of the consequences of permanent work force reduction using data from both employer and union respondents. About 56 percent of employer participants and...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to investigate whether the adoption of information technology is associated with human resource management and organizational restructuring. Design/methodology/approach – SMEs in Nova Scotia were visited and complete data from 130 firms were obtained....