Labor Management Relations

The revision of this classic labor relations text, written by a respected scholar, emphasizes the rapid social, demographic, and economic changes now affecting the workplace. To this end, new chapters on workplace diversity and new work systems have been added. In addition, all material has been thoroughly updated, including important recent court decisions. The text continues to be distinguished by its comprehensive coverage and solid research base.

Going Public examines the forces affecting labor and management and the prospects for adopting service-oriented cooperative relationships as a key strategy for meeting the expanded demands on the public sector.

Focuses on the environment of union-management relations, the collective bargaining process, and the nature of the relationship between trade unions and management since the 19th century, particularly from 1980 to 1993.

Strategic Negotiations examines the current changes in labor-management relations. The authors identify & explain three key negotiating strategies: forcing change, fostering cooperative attitudes & solutions, & escaping the relationship. They illustrate how these strategies succeed or fail in real organizations by drawing on in-depth examples from 13 companies in 3 industries: pulp & paper, railroads, & auto supply. The resulting theory has broad implications for strategic negotiations in many settings.

Considers legislation to revise the National Labor Relations Act to increase the speed and the efficiency of NLRB handling of labor-management cases; eliminate the requirement of an authorization election before a union-shop contract; require mandatory collective bargaining on employee benefit plans; increase restrictions on industry-wide collective bargaining; outlaw strikes by labor unions which compel employers to agree to violations of the law.