NCJ Number
101095
Editor(s)
H Kershen
Date Published
1983
Length
216 pages
Annotation
This text examines collective bargaining issues as they relate to municipal, State, and Federal employees and national legislation.
Abstract
An overview examines public-sector collective bargaining, provides a model of the wage determination process and institutional factors affecting it, considers the role of legislatures in fund appropriation, and discusses public-sector job security and productivity. Employee unions, strike management, public pension plans, and the impact of compulsory arbitration on budgets are discussed as they relate to municipal labor/management relations. A section on State employees covers centralization versus decentralization of collective bargaining, multiemployer bargaining in Hawaii, attitudes toward Virginia's right-to-work law, and the effects of tax reforms (Propositions 13 and 2 and a half) on labor relations in California and Massachusetts. Also discussed are the Tennessee Valley Authority collective bargaining model, a study of why Federal Government employees join unions, and the impact of labor-management cooperation committees on personnel policies and practices at 20 Federal collective bargaining units. Finally, contract negotiation and administration in Federal-sector collective bargaining is discussed, and the probable impact of Federal bargaining legislation on State laws is assessed. Chapter references and discussion questions.