Collective Bargaining

Survival in the '7s?

Richard L. Rowan

• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press Anniversary Collection
• Year: 2016
• Print ISBN:
  9780812290769
  9780812290769
• eBook ISBN:
  9781512806243
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Business General
• Index: Business

This volume brings together papers on a variety of collective bargaining issues around the central theme of the survival and direction of the collective bargaining process. At the core are papers presented at the anniversary conference of the Industrial Research Unit and Labor Relations Council of the Wharton School.The list of distinguished contributors to this volume is led by Secretary of Labor James D. Hodgson and Chairman William Brown III of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission. Included are major discussions of NLRB and NRAB regulation and a detailed proposal for a United States Labor Court. Collective bargaining issues in the transportation and construction industries, equal employment opportunity enforcement, welfare and strikes, pensions, and occupational safety and health provide the focus for a variety of presentations from varying points of view.A final section on the New Economic Policy contains a timely analysis for businesses by Pay Board Member Virgil B. Day.

Table of contents

• Foreword
• Contents
• Introduction
• Part I. An Overall Look at the Survival of Collective Bargaining
• The Survival of Collective Bargaining
• Bargaining Structure and Relative Power
• Part II. Collective Bargaining and Regulatory Mechanisms
• The Viability of NLRB Regulation in the Future
• The Need for New and Coherent Regulatory Mechanisms
• Collective Bargaining and the Rule of Law
• Injunctive Powers under the National Labor Relations Act
• Part III. Alternatives to Strikes
• Collective Bargaining Where Strikes Are Not Tolerated
• Does Compulsory Arbitration Prevent Strikes? The Australian Experience
• What Mediation Can and Cannot Do
• Part IV. Selected Issues in Collective Bargaining
• A. Transportation
• The Railway Labor Act: A Critical Reappraisal
• Collective Bargaining in the Railroad Industry: The Beginning of a New Era
• Union Fragmentation: A Major Cause of Transportation Labor Crises
• A Proposal for Reviving Collective Bargaining Under the Railway Labor Act
• From Private to Public: Labor Relations in Urban Transit
• Β. Equal Employment Opportunity
• Can Collective Bargaining Survive Without Protecting the Rights of Minorities and Women?
• Will Greater EEOC Powers Expand Minority Employment?
• Educating the Employed Disadvantaged for Upgrading
• C. Welfare and Pensions
• Public Support for Strikers
• Welfare Payment to Strikers
• Pension Opportunities and Problems: Issues in Collective Bargaining and Government Regulation
• Private Pensions and Public Policy
• D. Occupational Health and Safety
• The Occupational Safety and Health Act and Industrial Relations
• Impact of the Occupational Safety and Health Act on Collective Bargaining
• Seeds of Humble Origin Produce a Tree of Life
• E. Construction
• Reflections on Collective Bargaining: Politics and Construction
• Construction Bargaining and the Public Interest
• Part V. Collective Bargaining And The New Economic Policy
• Price and Wage Control: The Sickness of an Overgoverned Society
• Management Responsibility for Collective Bargaining: What Every Businessman Should Know About Cost-Push Inflation
• Reflections on Public Sector Bargaining and the Wage-Price Freeze