The authors examine competing theoretical arguments regarding whether union representation, shared governance, wage levels, and two features of the quality of labor relations--workplace culture and conflict in negotiations--lead to better or worse outcomes for airlines, and they test these...

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.)