Download or read book Reclaiming the Union Movement Through Union Dues A Postmodern Perspective in the Mirror of Public Choice Theory written by Harry G. Hutchison and published by . This book was released on 2001 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The National Labor Relations Board's (NLRB)seeming powerlessness to process dues objector cases has led to a proliferation of state sponsored "paycheck protection" laws and popular referenda devised to ensure that workers will not be obliged to pay dues for non-germane purposes. Recently, California captured national attention as the site of a richly contested paycheck protection referendum. Such proposals have electrified union advocates and have enlivened the debate over the proper use of union dues. In addition, recent attempts to reform campaign finance have run aground on the thorny issue of union political contributions (both in-kind and in cash). Concurrently, private sector unions continue to decline in significance as agents of change within the workplace. On the other hand, union influence within the political sector may be ascendant. This article inspects attempts to reclaim the labor movement and to enhance worker solidarity through expansive interpretations of the social and political meaning of union dues. By investigating whether the interests and identities of individuals or subgroups of workers are necessarily congruent with those of either the union majority or union leadership and by disputing dominant free-rider assumptions embedded in the Taft-Hartley Act, this approach, delegitimizes coerced transfers from union members and dues payers for political and other purposes. Methodologically, the article deploys postmodern insights, group cooperation theory and public choice theory to contest the prevailing view that individuals and identifiable subgroups of workers must sacrifice their particular interests and identities to the "greater totalizing goals of the working class." While postmodernism has its critics, the author argues that an expansive deployment of union dues to revitalize the union movement is inconsistent with the notion that the individual has the right to decide the proper ends of her life. Accordingly, the application of union dues to a variety of union efforts that are unrelated to collective bargaining, must inescapably be seen as a form of subservience to authoritarian unionist who seek to submerge both individual, ethnic, and gender identity and ideological diversity in support of hierarchical aims.
Download or read book A Clearing in the Forest written by Harry G. Hutchison and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book University of Michigan Journal of Law Reform written by University of Michigan. Law School and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 744 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Emory International Law Review written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 1318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book UC Davis Business Law Journal written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 526 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Why Journalists Favor Voluntary Unionism written by Chamber of Commerce of the United States of America. Labor Relations and Legal Department and published by . This book was released on 1963 with total page 76 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Unions in Transition written by Seymour Martin Lipset and published by San Francisco, Calif. : ICS Press, Institute for Contemporary Studies. This book was released on 1986 with total page 536 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The decline of the American labor movement has become a subject of some significance. This collection documents and analyzes labor's deterioration, particularly such issues as why union density is relatively low in the U.S., why unions lose certification elections at a high ratio, whether labor can reverse the current trends, and what labor's future role will be in the American economic and social system. A number of well-known experts have contributed to this volume: Lane Kirkland, Ray Marshall, Walter Galeson, and Richard Freeman. Among the topics discussed are the public image of unions, their economic impact, public sector bargaining, and unionism in an international and historical perspective. ISBN 0-917616-73-1 (pbk.): $12.95.
Download or read book Unions in Crisis written by Michael Schiavone and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2007-12-30 with total page 165 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Unionism in the United States was quite successful during and after World War II, especially during the golden years of American capitalism (1947-73) as workers' wages increased quite dramatically in a number of industries. For example, average hourly earnings for workers in meatpacking rose 114% between 1950 and 1965, those in steel 102%, in rubber tires by 96%, and in manufacturing 81%. At the same time as union members' wages were increasing, union membership was declining. Yet, the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) argued that organizing new members was not a priority. By concentrating on the existing membership and bread-and-butter issues, and not organizing new members, unionism could not deal with the attack on the social contract by employers and the government beginning in the United States in the late 1970s. However, while many people are claiming that organized labor is a dinosaur, Schiavone argues that a strong union movement is needed now more than ever. Unionism in the United States was quite successful during and after World War II, especially during the golden years of American capitalism (1947-73) as workers' wages increased quite dramatically in a number of industries. For example, average hourly earnings for workers in meatpacking rose 114% between 1950 and 1965, those in steel 102%, in rubber tires by 96%, and in manufacturing 81%. At the same time as union members' wages were increasing, union membership was declining. Yet, the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) argued that organizing new members was not a priority. By concentrating on the existing membership and bread-and-butter issues, and not organizing new members, unionism could not deal with the attack on the social contract by employers and the government beginning in the United States in the late 1970s. Following that attack, there was a significant decline in U.S. workers' wages and conditions in real terms, and there was a corresponding decline in union membership. However, while many people are claiming that organized labor is a dinosaur, Schiavone argues that a strong union movement is now needed more than ever. If unions make major changes as outlined in this book, the U.S. labor movement may regain some of its strength. By fighting for workplace (such as higher wages) and non-workplace issues (such as the fight for adequate childcare or against racism), unions in America and Canada that embraced what Schiavone calls social justice unionism have improved society for all. On purely bread-and-butter issues, these unions have achieved better collective bargaining agreements than their rival mainstream unions, as well as organizing more new workers per capita. How much strength organized labor will regain by embracing social justice unionism is uncertain, but it is a beginning.
Download or read book Current Law Index written by and published by . This book was released on 2002 with total page 950 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book What Unions No Longer Do written by Jake Rosenfeld and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2014-02-10 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From workers’ wages to presidential elections, labor unions once exerted tremendous clout in American life. In the immediate post–World War II era, one in three workers belonged to a union. The fraction now is close to one in ten, and just one in twenty in the private sector—the lowest in a century. The only thing big about Big Labor today is the scope of its problems. While many studies have attempted to explain the causes of this decline, What Unions No Longer Do lays bare the broad repercussions of labor’s collapse for the American economy and polity. Organized labor was not just a minor player during the “golden age” of welfare capitalism in the middle decades of the twentieth century, Jake Rosenfeld asserts. Rather, for generations it was the core institution fighting for economic and political equality in the United States. Unions leveraged their bargaining power to deliver tangible benefits to workers while shaping cultural understandings of fairness in the workplace. The labor movement helped sustain an unprecedented period of prosperity among America’s expanding, increasingly multiethnic middle class. What Unions No Longer Do shows in detail the consequences of labor’s decline: curtailed advocacy for better working conditions, weakened support for immigrants’ economic assimilation, and ineffectiveness in addressing wage stagnation among African-Americans. In short, unions are no longer instrumental in combating inequality in our economy and our politics, and the result is a sharp decline in the prospects of American workers and their families.
Download or read book The Impact of the Union written by David McCord Wright and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Twilight of the Old Unionism written by Leo Troy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2004 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This controversial but well-documented and deftly argued study analyzes the present and future prospects for organized labor in the private sector. The book takes the decline and ultimate disappearance of old style labor unions--not just in the United States but throughout the developed world--as fact. The author views the Democratic political party as the future of a redefined union movement in the United States. He elaborates on the extent and reasons for the current decline of unions by addressing four vital questions: Can private-sector unions ever make a comeback? If organized labor cannot recover, what are the consequences for both unionized and non-unionized workers, for the economy, and for unionism itself? What is the experience of other countries, particularly Canada whose industrial relations parallels that of the United States? What explains the international decline of unions and the change in character of unionism?
Download or read book Labor Union Theories in America written by Mark Perlman and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1976-09-30 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Five basic theories of unionism are examined: Protestant Christian Socialist and Roman Catholic Christian social movements, the Marxian socialist movements, the environmental psychology discipline, and the jurisprudential history discipline.
Download or read book The Political Imperative written by Gus Tyler and published by New York : Macmillan. This book was released on 1968 with total page 336 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Study of cooperative and theoretical aspects of trade unions in the USA - covers traditional conceptions of the corporation, historical and political aspects, aspects of philosophy, aspects of leadership of unions (incl. Political leadership), legal aspects, sociological aspects, etc.
Download or read book The Case for Right to work Laws written by Edward A. Keller and published by . This book was released on 1956 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Errata slip inserted. Bibliographical footnotes.
Download or read book New Unionism written by Charles C. Heckscher and published by Perseus Books Group. This book was released on 1988-04-05 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his visionary analysis, Charles Heckscher argues for "associational unionism", a model outside the tradition of American labor law. Rejecting the usual boundary between workers and management, Heckscher defines a genuinely new system of representation that encourages multilateral negotiation involving management, different groups of employees, and other interested parties such as consumers or environmentalists.
