Collective Barganing in the Private Sector
Private-sector collective bargaining in the United States is under siege. Many factors have contributed to this situation, including the development of global markets, a continuing antipathy toward unions by managers, and the declining effectiveness of strikes. This volume examines collective bargaining in eight major industries-airlines, automobile manufacturing, health care, hotels and casinos, newspaper publishing, professional sports, telecommunications, and trucking-to gain insight into...
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Introduction - Private-Sector Collective Bargaining: Is This the End or a New Beginning?1Ch. 1Airlines: Can Collective Bargaining Weather the Storm?15Ch. 2Autos: Continuity and Change in Collective Bargaining55Ch. 3Health Care: A Growing Role for Collective Bargaining91Ch. 4Hotels and Casinos: Collective Bargaining During a Decade of Expansion137Ch. 5Newspapers: Collective Bargaining Decline Admidst Technological Change179Ch. 6Professional Sports: Collective Bargaining in the Spotlight217Ch. 7Telecommunications: Collective Bargaining in an Era of Industry Reconsolidation263Ch. 8Trucking: Collective Bargaining Takes a Rocky Road311Ch. 9Practitioner Commentary343Ch. 10Practitioner Commentary361About the Contributors375
\ From the Publisher"The authors propose that collective bargaining is developing differently in the various profiled industries, and that although there are contrary forces at work there may be new opportunities for union growth."-ILR Connections, Winter 2004\ "Collective Bargaining in the Private Sector is a valuable resource for scholars, students, practitioners, and policy-makers wanting to learn about the contemporary state of US private sector industrial relations in the eight industries described. This volume will also have enduring value for scholars and practitioners in future years who can use it to look back and see what US industrial relations was like at the start of the new millennium."-John Budd, University of Minnesota, The Journal of Industrial Relations 46:1, March 2004\ \ \
