scholarly journals Reconciling Agency Fee Doctrine, the First Amendment, and the Modern Public Sector Union

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Courtlyn Roser-Jones
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
First Amendment ◽  
Public Sector Union ◽  
Sector Union

Government, Management and Unions: the Public Service Under the Workplace Relations Act

1999 ◽  
Vol 41 (3) ◽  
pp. 446-467 ◽  
Author(s):  
John O'Brien ◽  
Michael O'Donnell
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Public Sector Union ◽  
Industrial Environment ◽  
The Public ◽  
Sector Union ◽  
Workplace Relations ◽  
Government Management

The paper argues that when governments seek to regulate the working conditions and wages of their own employees in n decentralising industrial environment there is potential for tension between the roles of government as employer ; as policy generator and as financial controller. The paper discusses the federal coalition govern ment's agenda in the Australian Public Service under tbe Workplace Relations Act 1996, and the potential for tensions to arise from a process that simultaneously insists on oversight from the centre and requires the exercise of greater responsibility by agency managements. Moreover; the paper examines the ability of the Community and Public Sector Union to retain its legitimacy at a workplace level in this contradictory environ ment, and its capacity to counter managerial attempts to marginalise the union during the first round of agreement making.

scholarly journals Card-Check Laws and Public-Sector Union Membership in the States

2011 ◽  
Vol 36 (4) ◽  
pp. 445-459
Author(s):  
Timothy D. Chandler ◽  
Rafael Gely
Keyword(s):  
Public Sector ◽  
Empirical Analysis ◽  
Union Membership ◽  
Public Employees ◽  
Public Sector Union ◽  
Sector Union ◽  
The Impact

We examine the impact of state card-check legislation on public-sector union membership. Based on an empirical analysis of data from 2000 to 2009, a time during which eight states enacted card-check legislation for public employees, we find significantly higher levels of public-sector union membership for states that passed card-check legislation in years after the laws were enacted relative to states that did not pass such laws. Moreover, average public-sector union membership increased for the states that passed card-check legislation after the laws were passed relative to their precard-check law union-membership levels.

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