The New Great Debate about Unionism and Collective Bargaining in U.S. State and Local Governments
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Kochan, Thomas Anton
Lewin, David
Keefe, Jeffrey
Date Issued
September 2012
Journal
ILR Review
Publisher
Cornell University
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Lewin, David, Jeffrey Keefe, and Thomas A. Kochan. "The New Great Debate about Unionism and Collective Bargaining in U.S. State and Local Governments." ILR Review, 65(4), October 2012. © Cornell University.
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Abstract
Recently some state and local governments in the United States have sharply reduced or eliminated employee unionism and bargaining rights in the belief that their fiscal adversity stems mainly from overcompensation of public employees caused by collective bargaining. The authors examine public-private sector pay and benefit relationships, the effects of unions on public employee pay, the effectiveness of employment dispute resolution procedures, and the ability of public sector labor and management to combat fiscal adversity. They provide evidence showing that: on balance, public employees are undercompensated relative to their private sector counterparts; the effects of unions on compensation are smaller in the public than in the private sector; and public sector dispute resolution procedures and joint labor-management initiatives to reform work function reasonably well.
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Sloan School of Management
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