scholarly journals Managerial Attitudes Toward Industrial Relations : A U.S.-Canadian Comparison

2005 ◽  
Vol 30 (3) ◽  
pp. 331-342 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Thompson ◽  
Larry F. Moore
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
The United States

This paper analyses possible differences in managerial attitudes toward unionism and collective bargaining in Canada and the United States. Divergent patterns of attitudes emerge that are consistent with other observable differences between Canadian and U.S. industrial relations.

scholarly journals Public Employment, Collective Bargaining and the Conventional Wisdom : Canada and U.S.A.

2005 ◽  
Vol 21 (3) ◽  
pp. 406-435
Author(s):  
W. B. Cunningham
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Conventional Wisdom ◽  
Public Employment ◽  
The Public ◽  
State Of Affairs

The author states that the conventional wisdom has viewed collective bargaining in the public service as unnecessary, impractical and illegal. And he adds that, in general, and until recently, the prevailing practices in the United States and Canada have been in close harmony with the conventional wisdom. But the restless change of events threatens the existing state of affairs, described by the conventional wisdom, with progressive obsolescence. And the author answers the two following questions: Can the industrial relations system of the private sector be applied to public employment? To what extent does the nature of government employment raise unique problems? The enemy of the conventional wisdom is not ideas but the march of events. J.K. GALBRAITH, « The Affluent Society »

scholarly journals Impasse Procedures: The American Experience

1970 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Don J. Turkington
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Public Sector ◽  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Private Sector ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
Representative Democracy ◽  
Government Services ◽  
American Experience

Recent American industrial relations have been characterized by experimentation with alternatives to the strike. Much of this experimentation is the result of public sector workers gaining access to collective bargaining while continuing to be denied access to the strike. In the United States, as in many countries, governments have taken the view that their employees should not strike. Considerations of public service, sovereignty and representative democracy, essentiality of government services and of the lack of some private sector restramts underlie this view

scholarly journals State Intervention in the Settlement of Interests Conflicts

2014 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 392-416
Author(s):  
Adolf Sturmthol
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Government Intervention ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
State Intervention ◽  
The United States ◽  
Conflicts Of Interests ◽  
Union Participation ◽  
Numerous Data

The Author first describes the « contradictory values » which surround collective bargaining and industrial peace, going through a brief analysis of various industrial relations theories: those of Market, Government and Union Participation in Management. He then goes on to distinguish between various manifestations of industrial conflicts—one of which being the strike, which is not necessarily a symptom of « unhealthy » industrial relations. The Author states that government intervention in conflicts of interests must be the exception and must have their justification in each case. He founds his thesis on the on-the-spot study of numerous data collected from the United States, Great Britain, France, Germany and, Sweden.

scholarly journals The Decentralization of Collective Bargaining: A Literature Review and Comparative Analysis

ILR Review ◽  
1993 ◽  
Vol 47 (1) ◽  
pp. 3-22 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harry C. Katz
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Literature Review ◽  
Collective Bargaining ◽  
Bargaining Power ◽  
Industrial Relations ◽  
The United States ◽  
West Germany ◽  
Research Gaps ◽  
The United Kingdom

The author reviews evidence that the bargaining structure is becoming more decentralized in Sweden, Australia, the former West Germany, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the United States, although in somewhat different degrees and ways from country to country. He then examines the various hypotheses that have been offered to explain this significant trend. Shifts in bargaining power, as well as the diversification of corporate and worker interests, have played a part in this change, he concludes, but work reorganization has been more influential still. He also explores how the roles of central unions and corporate industrial relations staffs are challenged by bargaining structure decentralization, and discusses the research gaps on this subject that need to be filled.

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