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From Collective Bargaining to Collective Begging
How Public Employees Win and Lose the Right to Bargain
Dominic D. Wells
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From Collective Bargaining to Collective Begging
How Public Employees Win and Lose the Right to Bargain
Dominic D. Wells
About This Book
How do public employees win and lose their collective bargaining rights? And how can public sector labor unions protect those rights? These are the questions answered in From Collective Bargaining to Collective Begging. Dominic Wells takes a mixed-methods approach and uses more than five decades of state-level data to analyze the expansion and restriction of rights.
Wells identifies the factors that led states to expand collective bargaining rights to public employees, and the conditions under which public employee labor unions can defend against unfavorable state legislation. He presents case studies and coalition strategies from Ohio and Wisconsin to demonstrate how labor unions failed to protect their rights in one state and succeeded in another.
From Collective Bargaining to Collective Begging also provides a comprehensive quantitative analysis of the economic, political, and cultural factors that both led states to adopt policies that reduced the obstacles to unionization and also led other states to adopt policies that increased the difficulty to form and maintain a labor union. In his conclusion, Wells suggests the path forward for public sector labor unions and what policies need to be implemented to improve employee labor relations.
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Table of contents
- Contents
- Acknowledgments
- 1. The Public Sector Union Puzzle
- 2. The Difference between Public Sector Unions and Private Sector Unions
- 3. The Expansion of Rights into the Public Sector
- 4. The Restriction of Rights in the Public Sector
- 5. The Stories of Ohio Senate Bill 5 and Wisconsin Act 10
- 6. The Narrative Strategies in Ohio and Wisconsin
- 7. The Paths Forward for Public Employee Labor
- Appendix: Methodological Notes
- References
- Index