Social Progress and Corporate Culture

Social progress through improved treatment of minority groups (e.g., forbidding racial or sexual harassment) may or may not spread to corporate cultures through competition. We provide a theory of corporate culture, and we show that emergent, progressive corporate cultures can displace existing, regressive ones only when the prevailing wage gap is large between majority and minority groups. Wider cultural differences between groups make progress less likely. The model provides testable predictions on racial and gender wage gaps across firms.

prevailing wage system toward the potential of trade unions in local situations

Impatience with the prevailing wage system - due to its components that place too much emphasis on non-monetary rewards and too much emphasis on age and seniority - is evident among young workers. The Directors strongly felt that the growing pool of trained workers in the city did not fit into the current system of relations in the factory. These feelings are expressed both in training programs intended to instill traditional values ??and in prevailing recruitment procedures. There are no examples of other types of tension and anxiety-caused by lagging the current factory system from (to) the changes taking place. In society at large - rather than the role of women in Japanese companies. Perhaps more than any other interaction. The relationship between men and women in Japan is very different from what has developed in the West. Perhaps more than any other type of relationship, the changes caused and accelerated by the events of the last years have influenced the roles, attitudes and behavior of Japanese women. The resulting tensions were evident in factories and in the offices of large Japanese companies.

The Plan

This chapter explains in detail what the new system would look like. It shows how public policy can actively support unions and encourage broad-based collective bargaining, and it explains how the newer elements of the modernized system would be layered on top of the existing system. The chapter discusses how the United States could adapt the “Ghent system” that several countries use to provide needed benefits to workers and a platform for unions to recruit members. It also describes how to move toward broad-based bargaining by promoting high union density as well as by creating supportive structures — including extending union contracts to similarly placed workers through more expansive use of prevailing wage laws and the creation of workers' boards in sectors with little or no union density. Examples from cities and states with these types of policies are highlighted. Finally, how unions would operate in the new system and build power in the workplace as well as in the larger economy is explored.

Do Project Labor Agreements Reduce the Number of Bidders on Public Projects? The Case of Community Colleges in California

Project labor agreements (PLAs) are commonly found on larger California public works in urban areas. Nonetheless, they remain a controversial public procurement practice. One issue not examined in the literature is whether as some critics suggest, PLAs reduce the number of bidders on public projects. Analyzing 263 bid openings for community college construction in California over the period 2007 to 2016, this first-ever study of PLA effects on the number of bids finds that controlling for the location where the project occurred, the size of projects, the business cycle and the season when the project was let, the number of bidders on a project was not altered by the presence or absence of project of PLAs. This study also finds that relative to engineer’s estimates available on 99 of these projects, the lowest bids on prevailing wage projects were not higher than the lowest bids on projects without PLA agreements.

Blocking the progressive city: How state pre-emptions undermine labour rights in the USA

While some US cities and states have taken the lead in protecting labour rights, a counter-trend is found in state pre-emptions – state laws that prohibit cities from making any ordinances or laws related to certain policy areas. What drives these state-level actions that undermine progressive city leadership in the USA? We examine recent state legislations that pre-empt city authority to regulate labour conditions and protect labour rights in the private and public sectors (i.e. minimum wage, paid leave, fair scheduling, right to work, prevailing wage). We use a 50-state regression model to explore what differentiates states with more pre-emption of labour rights and potential sources of pushback. States with low minimum wages, which have never had strong labour protections, pre-empt more. Unions can be sources of pushback – greater unionisation is linked to fewer pre-emptions. However, in Republican-controlled states, more unionisation is linked to more pre-emptions. We use Wisconsin as an example of a state that adopted anti-union policies – despite strong pushback from the public – to explore how strong labour protections can act as a ‘trigger’ for states to undermine labour rights.

KELAYAKAN USAHA TANI TUMPANG SARI KETELA UNGU (Ipomoea batatas L.) DENGAN BUNGA KOL (Brassica oleracea var. botrytis l.) (STUDI KASUS DI DESA KARANGLO, KECAMATAN TAWANGMANGU, KABUPATEN KARANGANYAR)

Sweet potatoes are generally planted in monoculture, but it is not uncommon for farmers to apply a system of intercropping sweet potatoes with other plants that are shorter than sweet potatoes. Intercropping is a growth of two or more plants together on one land. Cauliflower is a type of leaf vegetable that is cultivated by farmers, especially in the highlands with an altitude of 1,000 - 2,000 masl. Basic methods used in the study was descriptive. Research locations in Karanglo Village, Tawangmangu Sub-district, Karanganyar Regency because that location is the one of producer of sweet potatoes purple variety in Tawangmangu Sub-district. Data used in this research are secondary and primary data. Results of feasibility studies the analysis with an average land area 0,14 hectare that is total costs Rp 10.208.081,38, revenue Rp 19.150.220,00, income 14.576.654,00. with a profit Rp 8.942.138,62. Farming of Intercropping Purple Cilantro And Cauliflower feasibility to be developed because revenue (Rp 19.150.220) > BEP revenue (Rp 261.574,07), R/C (1,87) ? 1, ?/C (87,59 %) > prevailing bank interest 10,25%,), and labor productivity (Rp 369.909,60)> prevailing wage rate (Rp 80.000,00).

Unintended Consequences of Nevada’s Ninety-Percent Prevailing Wage Rule

In 2015, the State of Nevada reduced prevailing wage rates on education-related construction to 90 percent of the applicable rate for other state-funded construction. The examination of projects built for Clark County School District between 2009 and 2108 indicates that Nevada’s wage policy has no statistically significant effect on school construction costs or bid competition, taking into consideration bids placed before and after the 2015 policy change. However, prevailing wage reductions on education projects motivated union contractors to pursue other opportunities as Nevada’s building industry expanded after 2015. Reduced participation in district bidding by union contractors contributed to a 25-percent overall decrease in bid competition and a 20-percent increase in bid costs following the 2015 policy change. While the goal of the 90-percent prevailing wage rule was to reduce the cost of building public schools, unforeseen consequences contributed to decreased bid competition and increased construction costs.