Download or read book Labor Union Mergers written by Gary N. Chaison and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Labor Union Mergers written by Gary Chaison and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-05-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Brief examines the way that labor unions have been able to use mergers to survive the trend of sharply declining size and bargaining power. Using the metaphor of a ship adrift in a stormy sea, the author addresses the often-asked questions of why unions merge, how unions merge, and what unions can accomplish by merging. The first chapter sets the stage for union mergers by presenting the dilemma of American unions. The second chapter describes the motivation to merge by linking it to union decline. The third chapter deals with the barriers to merger, primarily major differences in union governance and opposition from officers, members and union staff. The fourth chapter examines the specific process by which unions amalgamate and absorb, the dynamics of merger overtures and negotiations, and the themes and variations of merger agreements and merger implementation agreements. The fifth chapter examines merger outcomes and the degree to which mergers are only a partial solution and often cannot resolve the problems that prompted them. The sixth and final chapter summarizes the present and future role that mergers might play in stabilizing and strengthening a labor movement adrift in a sea of turmoil. This Brief will be of interest to scholars of industrial relations, labor economics, and management.
Download or read book Trade Union Mergers and Labor Conglomerates written by Gideon Chitayat and published by New York, N.Y. : Praeger. This book was released on 1979 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Monograph on trade union mergers and trade union federations in the USA - analyses merger negotiations and membership concentration in the iron and steel industries, mail handlers, pulp and paper industry, railway industry, etc., And includes a chronology of mergers, a list of trade unions and employees associations and merger agreements. Bibliography pp. 205 to 218, references and statistical tables.
Download or read book Union Mergers in Hard Times written by Gary N. Chaison and published by Cornell University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-18 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The past fifteen years have been difficult for the labor movements in industrial countries. Gary N. Chaison addresses questions implicit in the decline of unions in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand: How and why do labor unions merge under pressure? What role do mergers play in the unions' strategies to deal with membership losses, management opposition, and hostile governments? Are there distinctive national profiles of union mergers? Chaison begins by describing the dynamics of the union merger process as large unions combine with each other in amalgamations, as small unions are absorbed into larger ones, and as local unions affiliate into nationals. He discusses the reasons for mergers, the barriers to consolidation, and the problems of integration which may result. The five chapters that follow are arranged in order of increasing intensity in merger activity, ranging from the United States, where interest in mergers is growing, to New Zealand, where changing legislation has catalyzed an enormous wave of mergers. For each of the five countries considered, Chaison characterizes the industrial relations climate and merger record since 1980, explains landmark mergers, identifies the antecedents, and assesses the chances that a sudden flood of mergers will occur. The final chapter compares the national profiles, extrapolating the significant differences and common threads. Chaison concludes that while mergers can play a critical role in revitalizing labor movements and building the dominant unions of the future, they are not necessarily solving the fundamental economic and political problems that plague unions.
Download or read book When Unions Merge written by Gary N. Chaison and published by Lexington, Mass. ; Toronto : Lexington Books. This book was released on 1986 with total page 676 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Trade Union Merger Strategies written by Roger Undy and published by Oxford University Press on Demand. This book was released on 2008-05-22 with total page 316 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As Trade Union membership has declined, merger and amalgamation have been prominent features in strategies of revitalization. Yet, there is very little systematic, empirical research into their effects on unions or the wider union movement. This ground-breaking study fills this gap with its in-depth analysis of British unions' mergers since 1978.
Download or read book Union Mergers in the United States written by Gary N. Chaison and published by . This book was released on 1992 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Economics of Labor Union Mergers written by John Lund Conant and published by . This book was released on 1984 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Union Mergers in the United States 1900 2005 written by Jasmine Olivia Kerrissey and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This dissertation examines mergers between labor unions in the United States from 1900 to 2005. Since 1900, 225 mergers have occurred between national unions, but little sociological work has examined the patterns underlying these mergers. This dissertation asks two main questions: why do unions merge and how have mergers transformed the labor movement? I connect literatures in labor studies, organizational theory, and social movement theory. I use union mergers as a case to extend existing theories and to help account for the organizational and political structure of unions that exists in the contemporary era. The data I use is archival and I employ two strategies: I collect systemic data on every union that has merged and in-depth data on several illustrative mergers. I use both quantitative and qualitative methods to analyze merger rates, characteristics, and processes from 1900 through 2005. Collectively, these mergers contributed to the consolidation of the labor movement. In the contemporary era, there are fewer and larger unions than in the earlier years of the last century. However, there is little evidence that mergers increase the growth rates of unions. Mergers also affect union democracy, as measured by union constitutions. Certain democratic clauses, especially around locals' rights, are eliminated when unions renegotiate their constitutions during mergers. I examine why unions merge through event history analysis. I consider internal, field level, and environmental characteristics and find that a main determinant of union mergers is the relationship between unions and between unions and federations. While shrinking size does encourage some mergers, the contraction of the labor movement is not the main driver of mergers.
Download or read book Restructuring Representation written by Jeremy Waddington and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2005 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the industrialised world trade unionists are reforming their organisations as part of a strategy to adjust to new labour market, economic and political circumstances. This volume examines the role of merger activity in this process of reform. The book identifies the pattern of merger activity, the factors that promote its development and its impact on union structure and governance. Most merger activity is shown to originate in some adverse environmental change, such as membership decline. Furthermore, there is little evidence to suggest that mergers have improved union performance in the recruitment, retention and organisation of members, although, in some cases, the reform of systems of membership participation has been facilitated. The shift away from industrial unions has been accelerated by merger involvement, which has also brought into question the role of confederations where the number of affiliated unions has declined markedly. The book comprises two sections. The first section examines the merger process in ten countries (Australia, Austria, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, UK and US). The second section comprises three 'horizontal' chapters in which authors of the national chapters develop themes that emerge from the national chapters in comparative perspective.
Download or read book A Comparison of the Trade Union Merger Process in Britain and Germany written by Jürgen Hoffman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2007-05-07 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trade unions in Europe are currently facing a series of challenges that stem from changes to regulatory and production regimes implemented by the state and employers, in order to compete in an increasingly internationalized economy. In response to these challenges, trade union movements have been dramatically restructuring; long-standing principles of organization have been jettisoned in an attempt to develop new structures. Central to this process of structural adaptation are the mergers of trade unions. This informative book focuses on the merger process in Britain and Germany and, uniquely, it reviews the wider implications of these developments - particularly for North America. As well as addressing the reasons for mergers, the book also examines the process whereby mergers are concluded, investigates the consequences, and analyses the costs and benefits of the post-merger organisation. Drawing on interviews conducted with senior policy-makers engaged in merger processes, this book explores the extent of internal union reform brought about by the merger process, and also identifies the implications of this reform for trade unions world-wide. Structured in distinct sections, this book covers topic such as: what distinguishes the British and German systems? trade union structures pre-merger issues settling the terms of the mergers post-merger developments. This book forms part of the Routledge Research in Employment Relations series featuring works of high academic merit drawn from a wide range of academic studies in the social sciences. It is a valuable resource for postgraduate students studying business and management, industrial employee relations, and trade unions.
Download or read book Trade Union Mergers and Labor written by Gideon Chitayat and published by . This book was released on 1979 with total page 225 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Union Merger Outcomes written by Gary N. Chaison and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Impact of Corporate Mergers on Industrial and Labor Relations written by Howard Aldrich and published by . This book was released on 1980 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Interorganizational Relationships Among U S Labor Unions written by Kay Stratton and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Anticonsumer Effects of Union Mergers written by Robert H. Lande and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 37 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Should unions and corporations be treated identically under the antitrust laws? This article explores this provocative question by examining whether union mergers should be subject to the antitrust laws. Currently unions and corporations are treated very differently. Large corporate mergers are blocked if their effect quot;may be substantially to lessen competition, or to tend to create a monopolyquot;. They are permitted if they are likely to be benign, procompetitive, or proconsumer.Collective bargaining, by contrast, enjoys a broad exemption from the antitrust laws. If they follow appropriate procedures, unions - even unions that, when taken together, cover all workers within a given industry - are permitted to merge or to coordinate their activity. There is no review of these mergers or of this coordinated activity to determine whether monopoly power, cartel-type behavior, or other anticompetitive or anticonsumer activity will result.This Article asks whether mergers or joint conduct between labor unions should be examined under a standard similar to that used to scrutinize corporate activity. This piece outlines an alternative proposal that would allow workers within individual companies to form a union or otherwise coordinate their bargaining, but then subjects all proposed mergers or other alliances of these units to the provisions of the antitrust laws. We take Congress' concerns in the area as a given and demonstrate that Congress could substantially have reached its primary goals in a better way.An approached that treated union activity identically to corporate activity might very well reduce the anticompetitive potential of unions without ignificantly sacrificing their protective and efficiency-enhancing aspects. This Article focuses upon some of the implications and practical consequences that could arise from this alternative policy.
Download or read book Union Mergers and Small Unions in Canada Since 1967 written by Michele Mawhinney and published by Kingston, Ont. : Industrial Relations Centre, Queen's University. This book was released on 1989 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lists international and national trade union organisations in Canada.
