Contemporary Developments in and Challenges to Collective Bargaining in the United States

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Delaney
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
The United States

scholarly journals Public Employment, Collective Bargaining and the Conventional Wisdom : Canada and U.S.A.

2005 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 406-435
Author(s):  
W. B. Cunningham
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Conventional Wisdom ◽  
Public Employment ◽  
The Public ◽  
State Of Affairs

The author states that the conventional wisdom has viewed collective bargaining in the public service as unnecessary, impractical and illegal. And he adds that, in general, and until recently, the prevailing practices in the United States and Canada have been in close harmony with the conventional wisdom. But the restless change of events threatens the existing state of affairs, described by the conventional wisdom, with progressive obsolescence. And the author answers the two following questions: Can the industrial relations system of the private sector be applied to public employment? To what extent does the nature of government employment raise unique problems? The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. J.K. GALBRAITH, « The Affluent Society »

scholarly journals Collective Bargaining Attitudes of Registered Nurses in the United States and Canada: A Wisconsin-Ontario Comparison

2005 ◽  
Vol 34 (3) ◽  
pp. 576-591 ◽  
Author(s):  
Allen Ponak ◽  
T. P. Haridas
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Registered Nurses ◽  
The United States ◽  
Low Rate

This paper compares the attitudes to collective bargaining of a sample of Ontario and Wisconsin registered nurses. Contrary to expectations (in view of the general low rate of American nursing unionism), the Wisconsin nurses who where surveyed viewed collective bargaining at least as favourably as their Ontario counterparts.

Factory Politics in Britain and the United States: Engineers and Machinists, 1914–1919

1985 ◽  
Vol 27 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-85
Author(s):  
Jeffrey Haydu
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Working Conditions ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
The United States ◽  
Work Practices ◽  
Organization Of Production ◽  
American Trade

The priorities of British and American trade unions center predominantly on the economic rewards received by union members. Collective bargaining and strikes typically focus on how much employers must pay for labor (in wages, pensions, and other benefits) rather than on how the labor, once purchased, may be used. Basic decisions regarding the organization of production are not considered by most unionists as legitimate issues for negotiation. Disputes over working conditions do arise, of course, but rarely concern securing for labor the rights of management. They involve instead efforts to protect jobs and work practices from encroachment by employers or poaching by other unions. In short, labor's goals are largely economistic, defensive, and sectional.

Private pensions in the United States: Gambling with retirement security

1973 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Merton C. Bernstein
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Las Vegas ◽  
The United States ◽  
Pension Plans ◽  
Private Pension ◽  
Private Pensions ◽  
Retirement Security

Reputedly some Las Vegas casinos set their roulette wheels so that overall ‘the house’ never loses although many play and some players win. In effect, the house sets the odds which remain unknown to the players. So it is with private pension plans in the United States, with the important difference that employees cannot decide whether to play or not; the decision is made for them by their employer or through collective bargaining.

scholarly journals Centralized Collective Bargaining : U.S.-Canada Experience

2005 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 38-63 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bryan M. Downie
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Decision Making ◽  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Initial Step ◽  
The United States

The author is concerned with bi-national bargaining which entails the delegation of decision-making power from Canada to the United States either through adherence to a U.S. pattern or standard and/or through the actual delegation of decision-making power in collective bargaining to U.S. officials. This paper attempts to take an initial step in the direction of increasing our understanding of what generates bi-national arrangements, what tactics and strategies are involved, and the implications.

Collective Bargaining as a Form of Employee Participation:

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Richard N. Block ◽  
Peter Berg
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Economic Efficiency ◽  
National Policy ◽  
Employee Participation ◽  
The United States ◽  
Worker Rights ◽  
Worker Participation ◽  
Economic Rationale ◽  
Work Scheduling

The purpose of this article is to examine the differing rationales for collective bargaining in the United States and Europe, and how these rationales affect the nature of participation through collective bargaining. The article shows how the basis for collective bargaining in the United States has been the removal of impediments to economic efficiency caused by disputes over union recognition, while in Europe it has generally been industrial pluralism and worker rights. In the United States, given the economic rationale for collective bargaining, in situations in which collective bargaining is perceived as impairing economic efficiency the scope of participation through collective bargaining is narrowed. On the contrary, the pluralistic and worker rights rationale for collective bargaining in Europe has resulted in deep collective worker participation at all levels on a range of matters ranging from national policy to work scheduling.

Conclusion

No Man's Land ◽  
2011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cindy Hahamovitch
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Government Intervention ◽  
Illegal Immigration ◽  
The United States ◽  
Immigration Reform ◽  
Foreign Labor ◽  
Two Systems ◽  
History Of ◽  
The 1950S

This concluding chapter considers the possibilities for change and improvement over current iterations of guestworker programs in the United States. If the history of guestworkers in the country demonstrates anything, this chapter argues, it is that guestworker programs are not an alternative to illegal immigration. Rather, the two systems of recruiting foreign labor have always existed in symbiosis. But can such an oppressive situation be reformed? The chapter turns to a few solutions; such as the adoption of the European guestworker programs of the 1950s and 1960s, collective bargaining and advocacy work, government intervention and worker vigilance, and finally and most importantly, immigration reform.

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