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Book Synopsis Unionism Comes to the Public Sector by : Richard Barry Freeman
Download or read book Unionism Comes to the Public Sector written by Richard Barry Freeman and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper argues that public sector labor relations is best understood in a framework that focuses on unions' ability to shift demand curves rather than to raise wages, as is the case in the private sector. It reviews the public sector labor relations literature and finds that: (i) public sector unionism has flourished as a result of changes in laws; (2) the effects of public sector unions on wages are likely to have been underestimated; (3) public sector unions have a somewhat different effect on wage structures than do private sector unions; (4) compulsory arbitration reduces strikes with no clearcut impact on the level of wage settlements; (5) public sector unions have diverse effects on non-wage outcomes as do private sector unions. In terms of evaluating public sector unionism, the paper argues that by raising both the cost of public services (taxes) and the amount of services public sector unionism involves a different welfare calculus than private sector unionism.
Book Synopsis When Public Sector Workers Unionize by : Richard B. Freeman
Download or read book When Public Sector Workers Unionize written by Richard B. Freeman and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2007-12-01 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1980s, public sector unionism has become the most vibrant component of the American labor movement. What does this new "look" of organized labor mean for the economy? Do labor-management relations in the public sector mirror patterns in the private, or do they introduce a novel paradigm onto the labor scene? What can the private sector learn from the success of collective bargaining in the public? Contributors to When Public Sector Workers Unionize—which was developed from the NBER's program on labor studies—examine these and other questions using newly collected data on public sector labor laws, labor relations practices of state and local governments, and labor market outcomes. Topics considered include the role, effect, and evolution of public sector labor law and the effects that public sector bargaining has on both wage and nonwage issues. Several themes emerge from the studies in this volume. Most important, public sector labor law has a strong and pervasive effect on bargaining and on wage and employment outcomes in public sector labor markets. Also, public sector unionism affects the economy in ways that are different from, and in many cases opposite to, the ways private sector unionism does, appearing to stimulate rather than reduce employment, reducing rather than increasing layoff rates, and developing innovate ways to settle labor disputes such as compulsory interest arbitration instead of strikes and lockouts found in the private sector.
Book Synopsis The New Unionism in the New Society by : Leo Troy
Download or read book The New Unionism in the New Society written by Leo Troy and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1994 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Describes the growth of public sector trade unions from 1960 to 1991, their dedication to social reform, and their potential impact on income redistribution.
Book Synopsis The New Unionism in the New Society by : Leo Troy
Download or read book The New Unionism in the New Society written by Leo Troy and published by Univ Publ Assn. This book was released on 1994-05-31 with total page 237 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leo Troy describes and analyzes the changes in the economy and labor markets and the subsequent and continuing changes in unions. He contrasts new and old unionism, detailing the characteristics of the new union movement and patterns of organization. He sets this discussion in the context of the new industrial relations system and compares and contrasts the old and new philosophies of unionism. The book concludes with an examination of the philosophy of the new unionism and its consequences.
Book Synopsis Public Workers by : Joseph E. Slater
Download or read book Public Workers written by Joseph E. Slater and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2017-04-15 with total page 271 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the dawn of the twentieth century to the early 1960s, public-sector unions generally had no legal right to strike, bargain, or arbitrate, and government workers could be fired simply for joining a union. Public Workers is the first book to analyze why public-sector labor law evolved as it did, separate from and much more restrictive than private-sector labor law, and what effect this law had on public-sector unions, organized labor as a whole, and by extension all of American politics. Joseph E. Slater shows how public-sector unions survived, represented their members, and set the stage for the most remarkable growth of worker organization in American history. Slater examines the battles of public-sector unions in the workplace, courts, and political arena, from the infamous Boston police strike of 1919, to teachers in Seattle fighting a yellow-dog rule, to the BSEIU in the 1930s representing public-sector janitors, to the fate of the powerful Transit Workers Union after New York City purchased the subways, to the long struggle by AFSCME that produced the nation's first public-sector labor law in Wisconsin in 1959. Slater introduces readers to a determined and often-ignored segment of the union movement and expands our knowledge of working men and women, the institutions they formed, and the organizational obstacles they faced.
Book Synopsis Redefining Public Sector Unionism by : Mike Terry
Download or read book Redefining Public Sector Unionism written by Mike Terry and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2012-09-10 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book brings together contributions from both expert academics and leading figures of UNISON in an in-depth analysis of the union's achievements to date. As the largest and most influential trade union in the public sector, UNISON is an ideal case-study for the possible future development of UK unions in the twenty first century.
Book Synopsis Government Against Itself by : Daniel DiSalvo
Download or read book Government Against Itself written by Daniel DiSalvo and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Daniel DiSalvo contends that the power of public sector unions is too often inimical to the public interest"--
Book Synopsis Public-Sector Unionism by : Eileen Norcross
Download or read book Public-Sector Unionism written by Eileen Norcross and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the larger policy debate over the role of public sector unions, there is a tendency to blur the lines between the history and goals of the private sector union movement and those of the public sector union movement, and thereby misunderstand their unique effects. The public sector union movement shares a link to the history and institutional structure of private sector unionism, yet they are also distinct movements, differing in origins, goals, approaches to bargaining, philosophies, and effects. These two unionisms operate in different spheres. Private unionism operates as a labor cartel within the market economy and thus affects the profitability of firms, economic growth, the demand for labor, and consumer prices. Public sector unions function as a monopoly provider of labor within a bureaucratic-political realm. Public sector unionism introduces an unelected body into policy-making, thereby undermining the sovereignty of the state. Public sector employees are able to influence through political lobbying their --employer-sponsors‖ or politicians, who may seek to enhance union employment as a means of expanding their constituency. This study reviews the origins, goals, and fiscal effects of public sector unionism.
Book Synopsis Success While Others Fail by : Paul Johnston
Download or read book Success While Others Fail written by Paul Johnston and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Case studies of how some companies (including Xerox, General Electric, Goodyear, and Manpower, Inc.) are designing and implementing training practices to make their organizations more competitive. Thin bibliography. Johnston (sociology, Yale U.) compares and analyzes the experiences of several different public and private sector workforces engaged in new social movement unionism in recent decades, and examines the consequences of employment in political bureaucracy for the demands and the resources of public worker's movement. Discusses the public worker's movement in history, the mobilization of women, and the nurses' strike for comparable worth. Focuses on San Francisco and its suburban areas. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Book Synopsis The Future of Private Sector Unionism in the United States by : James T. Bennett
Download or read book The Future of Private Sector Unionism in the United States written by James T. Bennett and published by M.E. Sharpe. This book was released on 2002 with total page 436 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces union membership in the private and public sectors in the period 1900-2000. Indicates possible future developments of union survival and revival in light of current human resources management practices and worker desires.
Book Synopsis Public Sector Labor Relations by : David Lewin
Download or read book Public Sector Labor Relations written by David Lewin and published by Jossey-Bass. This book was released on 1988 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Police Unionism: Power and Impact in Public-sector Bargaining by : Hervey A. Juris
Download or read book Police Unionism: Power and Impact in Public-sector Bargaining written by Hervey A. Juris and published by . This book was released on 1973 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Research monograph on the trade union power and impact of police trade unionism in the USA, with particular reference to the collective bargaining frameworks applicable to this branch of the public sector - covers police occupational organizations, Black officers organizations, etc., and examines the impact of trade unions on professionalism and on law enforcement policy. References.
Book Synopsis Divided Unions by : Alexis N. Walker
Download or read book Divided Unions written by Alexis N. Walker and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2020-01-10 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 2011 battle in Wisconsin over public sector employees' collective bargaining rights occasioned the largest protests in the state since the Vietnam War. Protestors occupied the state capitol building for days and staged massive rallies in downtown Madison, receiving international news coverage. Despite an unprecedented effort to oppose Governor Scott Walker's bill, Act 10 was signed into law on March 11, 2011, stripping public sector employees of many of their collective bargaining rights and hobbling government unions in Wisconsin. By situating the events of 2011 within the larger history of public sector unionism, Alexis N. Walker demonstrates how the passage of Act 10 in Wisconsin was not an exceptional moment, but rather the culmination of events that began over eighty years ago with the passage of the Wagner Act in 1935. Although explicitly about government unions, Walker's book argues that the fates of public and private sector unions are inextricably linked. She contends that the exclusion of public sector employees from the foundation of private sector labor law, the Wagner Act, firmly situated private sector law at the national level, while relegating public sector employees' efforts to gain collective bargaining rights to the state and local levels. She shows how private sector unions benefited tremendously from the national-level protections in the law while, in contrast, public sector employees' efforts progressed slowly, were limited to union friendly states, and the collective bargaining rights that they finally did obtain were highly unequal and vulnerable to retrenchment. As a result, public and private sector unions peaked at different times, preventing a large, unified labor movement. The legacy of the Wagner Act, according to Walker, is that labor remains geographically concentrated, divided by sector, and hobbled in its efforts to represent working Americans politically in today's era of rising economic inequality.
Download or read book Vallejo Con Dios written by Don Bellante and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rates of unionization in the United States today are at historic lows and are unlikely to rebound. However, there is one sector in which organized labor is growing in strength: government. This has severe implications for the future of public finances for state and local governments across the nation, and for the nature of organized labor itself. High rates of unionization in the public sector have led to very high labor costs in the form of generous collective bargaining contracts. Now state and local governments are under increasing financial pressure, as a worsening national economy has led to decreased revenues for states and municipalities -- many of which remain locked into the generous contracts negotiated in more flush times. Thus, as businesses retrench, governments find themselves in a financial straitjacket. In addition, as government unions grow stronger relative to private-sector unions, their prevalence erodes the moderating influence of the market on the demands that unions make of employers. Now, as an economic downturn threatens state and local government revenues, officials who want to keep their fiscal situations under control would do well to look skeptically at public-sector bargaining -- especially since the existing political checks on it have proven ineffective. Public officials should eschew public-sector bargaining when possible, or at the very least, seek to limit its scope. As keepers of the public purse, legislators and local council members have an obligation to protect taxpayers' interests. By granting monopoly power to labor unions over the supply of government labor, elected officials undermine their duty to taxpayers, because this puts unions in a privileged position to extract political goods in the form of high pay and benefits that are much higher than anything comparable in the private sector. This paper shows how the unionization of government employees creates a powerful, permanent constituency for bigger government -- one that is motivated, well-funded, and organized. It also makes some recommendations as to how to check this constituency's growing power -- an effort that promises to be an uphill struggle.
Book Synopsis Public Sector Unions in the Age of Austerity by : Stephanie Ross
Download or read book Public Sector Unions in the Age of Austerity written by Stephanie Ross and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For decades, public sector unions in Canada have been plagued by austerity, privatization, taxpayer backlash and restrictions on union rights. In recent years, the intensity of state-led attacks against public sector workers has reached a fevered pitch, raising the question of the role of public sector unions in protecting their members and the broader public interest. Public Sector Unions in the Age of Austerity examines the unique characteristics of public sector unionism in a Canadian context. Contributors to this multi-disciplinary collection explore both the strategic possibilities and challenges facing public sector unions that are intent on resisting austerity, enhancing their power and connecting their interests as workers with those of citizens who desire a more just and equitable public sphere.
Download or read book Government Union Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 246 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Primer on Public Sector Unionism by : Philippines. Bureau of Labor Relations
Download or read book Primer on Public Sector Unionism written by Philippines. Bureau of Labor Relations and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 12 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: