Local Union Participation: A Re-examination

1979 ◽  
Vol 18 (1) ◽  
pp. 18-31 ◽  
Author(s):  
JOHN C. ANDERSON
Keyword(s):  
Local Union ◽  
Union Participation

Participation in Local Unions: A Comparison of Black and White Members

ILR Review ◽  
1987 ◽  
Vol 40 (3) ◽  
pp. 323-335 ◽  
Author(s):  
Michele M. Hoyman ◽  
Lamont Stallworth
Keyword(s):  
Civil Rights ◽  
Surprising Result ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Local Union ◽  
Sense Of Efficacy ◽  
Union Participation ◽  
Union Office

This article compares the participation of black and white union members in their local unions. Using more detailed measures of union participation than those employed in earlier studies, and focusing on members, not just leaders, the authors find little difference between the extent of participation by blacks and that by whites. This surprising result, which contradicts the finding of previous studies that blacks participate in unions less than whites, holds even with controls for gender, salary, education, number of years as a member, the presence of friends in the union, the strength of a sense of efficacy, confidence in the ability to gain local union office, and the liberalness of attitudes about civil rights.

Instrumental and Ideological Union Commitment: Longitudinal Assessment of Construct Validity

2001 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 98-111 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anders Sjöberg ◽  
Magnus Sverke
Keyword(s):  
Construct Validity ◽  
Temporal Stability ◽  
Strong Support ◽  
Internal Consistency Reliability ◽  
Measurement Model ◽  
Two Dimensions ◽  
Model Parameters ◽  
Longitudinal Assessment ◽  
Union Commitment ◽  
Union Participation

Summary: Previous research has identified instrumentality and ideology as important aspects of member attachment to labor unions. The present study evaluated the construct validity of a scale designed to reflect the two dimensions of instrumental and ideological union commitment using a sample of 1170 Swedish blue-collar union members. Longitudinal data were used to test seven propositions referring to the dimensionality, internal consistency reliability, and temporal stability of the scale as well as postulated group differences in union participation to which the scale should be sensitive. Support for the hypothesized factor structure of the scale and for adequate reliabilities of the dimensions was obtained and was also replicated 18 months later. Tests for equality of measurement model parameters and test-retest correlations indicated support for the temporal stability of the scale. In addition, the results were consistent with most of the predicted differences between groups characterized by different patterns of change/stability in union participation status. The study provides strong support for the construct validity of the scale and indicates that it can be used in future theory testing on instrumental and ideological union commitment.

Political Consciousness in a Local Union

1951 ◽  
Vol 15 (4) ◽  
pp. 692 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joel Seidman ◽  
Jack London ◽  
Bernard Karsh
Keyword(s):  
Political Consciousness ◽  
Local Union

Local versus Global: Activating Local Union Power in the Global Economy

2002 ◽  
Vol 27 (3) ◽  
pp. 39-65 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Levesque ◽  
Gregor Murray
Keyword(s):  
Global Economy ◽  
Union Power ◽  
Local Union

Il benessere organizzativo tra giustizia e motivazione

RISORSA UOMO ◽  
2009 ◽  
pp. 431-447
Author(s):  
Emanuela Chemolli ◽  
Margherita Brondino ◽  
Margherita Pasini
Keyword(s):  
Trade Union ◽  
Organizational Support ◽  
Indirect Effect ◽  
Perceived Organizational Support ◽  
Organizational Context ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Loosely Coupled ◽  
Local Union ◽  
Justice Perception ◽  
Organizational Constructs

- Organizational justices has often been studied as an antecedent of different organizational constructs concerning well-being but only in few studies it has been related with motivation at work. In this research we surveyed justice perception of 113 trade union members of a local union (defined also as loosely-coupled organization), their motivation at work and their perceived organizational support. We want to verify whether, in this atypical organizational context, justice is an antecedent of motivation as it seems to be in the few empirical studied on this topic. At the beginning, this relation was not present, but the inclusion of perceived organization support like mediation variable pointed out an indirect effect between justice and motivation.

Union Participation in Plant Decision-Making

ILR Review ◽  
1961 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. 83-101 ◽  
Author(s):  
Milton Derber ◽  
W. E. Chalmers ◽  
Milton T. Edelman
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Union Participation
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