Using a comprehensive collective bargaining data set, we examine dispute resolution patterns of all bargaining units in the province of Ontario over a 10-year period. A central finding is that bargaining units covered by legislation requiring compulsory interest arbitration arrive at impasse 8.7...

Public sector unions operate in politically challenging environments. Recent limitations on collective bargaining rights in Wisconsin and attempts to curtail collective bargaining in Ohio are illustrative of union vulnerability to shifts in the political climate. In Wisconsin, only months after...

Chapter 1. Introduction: What is Concession Bargaining? -- Chapter 2. The World of Concession Bargaining -- Chapter 3. The First Wave: Concession Bargaining in the 1980s -- Chapter 4. The Second Wave: The Ultra-Concession Bargaining of the Past Decade -- Chapter 5. The Message Behind the New...

The recent transformation of industrial relations in further education in England and Wales is examined, in particular the role of the national 'Silver Book' dispute over lecturers' conditions of service in causing the erosion of national bargaining in the sector. The experience of further...