Justice on the Job: Perspectives on the Erosion of Collective Bargaining in the United States

Authors

Richard N. Block Editor, Michigan State UniversityFollow
Sheldon Friedman Editor, American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial OrganizationsFollow
Michelle Kaminski Editor, Michigan State UniversityFollow
Andy Levin Editor, American Federation of Labor & Congress of Industrial Organizations

Publication Date

8-18-2006

DOI

10.17848/9781429454827

Abstract

This volume presents an influential group of researchers who examine the current state of workers’ freedom to form unions and bargain collectively. All of the researchers present empirical evidence to support their innovative ideas for advancing workers' rights.

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Contents

1. An Introduction to the Current State of Workers’ Rights / Richard N. Block, Sheldon Friedman, Michelle Kaminski, and Andy Levin

Part 1: How Free are U.S. Workers to Form Unions and Bargain Collectively?

2. A Logical Extreme: Proposing Human Rights as the Foundation for Workers’ Rights in the United States / James A. Gross

3. International Elections Standards and NLRB Representation Elections / David L. Cingranelli

4. Collective Bargaining Rights in the Public Sector: Promises and Reality / Donald S. Wasserman

Part 2: What’s at Stake: Why Freedom to Form Unions Matters to Workers and Communities

5. Significant Victories: An Analysis of Union First Contracts / Tom Juravich, Kate Bronfenbrenner, and Robert Hickey

6. Bad Service Jobs: Can Unions Save Them? Can They Save Unions? / Laura Dresser and Annette Bernhardt

7. Dancing with the Smoke Monster: Employer Motivations for Negotiating Neutrality and Card Check Agreements / Adrienne E. Eaton and Jill Kriesky

Part 3: Legal Obstacles to Workers’ Rights: Erected and Eliminated

8. Supreme Court Supervisory Status Decisions: The Impact on the Organizing of Nurses / Steven E. Abraham, Adrienne E. Eaton, and Paula B. Voos

9. Law and Collective Bargaining Power: An Experiment to Test Labor Law Reform Proposals / Gangaram Singh and Ellen Dannin

Part 4: International Perspectives on Workers’ Rights in the United States

10. America’s Union-Free Movement in Light of International Human Rights Standards / Roy J. Adams

11. The United States and ILO Conventions 87 and 98: The Freedom of Association and the Right to Bargain Collectively / Richard McIntyre and Matthew M. Bodah

Part 5: Where Do We Go From Here? Strategies for Advancing Workers’ Rights

12. Members-Only Collective Bargaining: A Back-to-Basics Approach to Union Organizing / Charles J. Morris

13. The Commercial Temp Agency, the Union Hiring Hall, and the Contingent Workforce: Toward a Legal Reclassification of For-Profit Labor Market Intermediaries / Harris Freeman and George Gonos

14. No More Business as Usual: Using Pension Activism to Protect Workers’ Rights / Jayne Elizabeth Zanglein

ISBN

9780880992794 (cloth) ; 9780880992787 (pbk.) ; 9781429454827 (ebook)

Subject Areas

LABOR MARKET ISSUES; Employment relationships; Unions and collective bargaining