NCJ Number
101041
Date Published
1986
Length
269 pages
Annotation
The economics of collective bargaining in privately owned and managed industries are explained via case studies illustrating the parties and processes in the bargaining relationship, the traditional and changing economic environments within which bargaining occurs, and the impact of bargaining outcomes on workers, industry, and community.
Abstract
The case studies are largely of economic bargaining analyzed in an 'ability-to-pay' model of relative bargaining power between labor and management. Since collective bargaining in the American private sector invariably reduces to the use or threatened use of economic power, this is the focus of the analysis. A review of the sources of union bargaining power focuses on the employer's ability to pay and the union's ability to make employers pay. The discussion of standards in economic bargaining addresses cost of living; productivity, jobs, and earnings; profits; and comparability with other industries. Among the issues in the case studies are the importance of industrial organization in the Litton-Royal Typewriter case, bargaining structure in the intercity bus industry, technology in the printing industry, the economic crisis in the steel industry, and airlines deregulation. Chapter references, tables, diagrams, and charts.