Contributors analyze private-sector labor relations during the period since 1979. Case studies detail changes such as declining unionization, workplace innovations, decentralization in bargaining structures, declining real wages, and heightened concern for job security, and their roots in economic s
Contributors analyze private-sector labor relations during the period since 1979. Case studies detail changes such as declining unionization, workplac...
Have the speed, informality, and low cost of the grievance and arbitration system deteriorated? Has the system become too adversarial? Has it lost its problem-solving character? This book examines the nature and degree of change in workplace dispute resolution in the context of ongoing changes in work and in labor relations.
The volume begins with an editors' introduction that provides context and offers a political perspective on the current state of dispute resolution in the workplace. The chapters that follow contain critiques of the existing legal framework surrounding mandatory...
Have the speed, informality, and low cost of the grievance and arbitration system deteriorated? Has the system become too adversarial? Has it lost its...
In recent years, much attention has focused on the growth of nonstandard and contingent employment (including part-time work) which involves up to 30 percent of the total U.S. labor force. There is little agreement on either the causes or the effects of this trend. Some researchers emphasize the advantages: employees may explore the job market and obtain work that does not necessarily involve rigid schedules, while employers enjoy greater flexibility and lower costs. Others point to the disadvantages for employees, such as lack of job security, fewer benefits and chances for promotion, and...
In recent years, much attention has focused on the growth of nonstandard and contingent employment (including part-time work) which involves up to 30 ...
Social insurance and employee benefits are key elements of society's safety net for workers. Social Security, although popular and successful, is under attack by critics who advocate privatization and benefit cuts. In health care, the United States...
Social insurance and employee benefits are key elements of society's safety net for workers. Social Security, although popular and successful, is unde...
Private-sector collective bargaining in the United States is under siege. Many factors have contributed to this situation, including the development of global markets, a continuing antipathy toward unions by managers, and the declining effectiveness of strikes. This volume examines collective bargaining in eight major industries airlines, automobile manufacturing, health care, hotels and casinos, newspaper publishing, professional sports, telecommunications, and trucking to gain insight into the challenges the parties face and how they have responded to those challenges.The authors suggest...
Private-sector collective bargaining in the United States is under siege. Many factors have contributed to this situation, including the development o...
The public sector currently employs around 40 percent of all union members in the United States. Pressures for cost-effective and quality government services have placed new demands on the labor-management relationship. A fluctuating set of expectations about the appropriate responsibilities of government and a shifting political culture are severely testing the ability of the public sector to meet demands for increased accountability and expanded services.
Especially in an age of knowledge workers, the traditional division between labor and management regarding leadership and work...
The public sector currently employs around 40 percent of all union members in the United States. Pressures for cost-effective and quality governmen...
Ever since the emergence of industrial relations as a field in the late 1920s, three different approaches to labor problems have been focal points for research and debate, according to Bruce E. Kaufman. What he refers to as "employers" solutions involve personnel management; workers rely on unionism and collective bargaining; and the third component, the community, depends on government regulation in the form of protective labor legislation and social insurance programs. Kaufman contends that government regulation has contributed significantly to the remarkable progress made during the...
Ever since the emergence of industrial relations as a field in the late 1920s, three different approaches to labor problems have been focal points for...
The public sector seems to be in the early stages of a profound transition, similar in scale to the transformation of private sector industrial relations in the 1970s and 1980s. This volume analyzes elements in what is variously described as...
The public sector seems to be in the early stages of a profound transition, similar in scale to the transformation of private sector industrial relati...
