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Union political activity has always been controversial, even among union members. Research has shown that a sizable minority
of union members question the propriety of union political involvement and disagree with union leaders on public policy issues.
It has also shown, however, that union members’ commitment to the union may be positively associated with members’ political
support. This study extends this research by statistically estimating the relationship between union commitment and members’
support for their national union’s political involvement. Based on the questionnaire responses of several hundred local union
members, the findings support a positive relationship between union commitment and political support.
The authors wish to thank John Delaney and Cynthia Fisher and an anonymous referee for their comments on an earlier draft
of the paper. They also wish to thank the numerous union participants in the study. 相似文献
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J. Lawrence French 《Journal of Labor Research》1992,13(2):157-172
Secondary data are used to examine the relationship between the power of international union presidents and their pay. The
analysis supported the hypotheses that (1) power and pay were positively related and (2) the relationship is more pronounced
in unions that are larger and are less effective in bargaining as well as during periods characterized by conflict over the
president’s role. While highlighting the political dimensions of union organizations, the data also support previous studies
that found international union officers’ salaries to have a “rational” basis in the union’s bargaining effectiveness.
I am indebted to Gabriella Belli for help with a number of statistical issues. 相似文献
3.
David Witwer 《Journal of Labor Research》2000,21(2):287-303
Conclusion TDU’s poor showing in the conventions misrepresented the attitudes of the union’s membership. This fact became clear after
the government reached a court-monitored settlement to its RICO suit of the union. The settlement changed the political dynamics
within the union, most importantly by providing for the direct election of national leadership. The new rules, combined with
a factional split among the incumbents, allowed an insurgent slate, supported by TDU, to win the election in 1991. With a
plurality of the membership’s votes, Ron Carey, a self-proclaimed reformer, became president of the union.
I thank Bruce Kaufman, John Remington, Catherine Rios, Leah Vosko, Clifford Doerksen, and Robert Gregg for their help in reading
this work and their many useful comments and suggestions. 相似文献
4.
This research evaluates potential determinants of grievance activity by testing a model based on the work of Slichter, Healy,
and Livernash. Results indicate that formal grievance rates are associated with management’s performance and disciplinary
standards for its employees, union rivalry, and union policies toward grievance activity. Several commonly held beliefs about
determinants of grievance rates, however, are not subtantiated by this cross-sectional survey. 相似文献
5.
This paper examines the current state of play in New Zealand’s industrial relations policy following the first general election
under a system of proportional representation. The implications of the new Coalition Government’s policy statements are examined
in light of the current outcomes under the Employment Contracts Act. It is concluded that radical reforms, and therefore radical
changes, are unlikely. With the exception of the role of the Employment Court, institutional arrangements and bargaining outcomes
under the Employment Contracts Act have become reasonably stable and are unlikely to be radically altered. The role of the
Employment Court and to a lesser extent the Employment Tribunal is under threat and a more gradual move towards further liberalization
of the labor market through changes to personal grievance procedures and bargaining process requirements cannot be ruled out.
This research was funded by a grant from Public Good Science Fund administered by the Foundation for Research, Science and
Technology (FRST Contract: VUW F514). 相似文献
6.
We develop a model of local union leaders’ satisfaction with their grievance proce-dures drawing from the job characteristics
model and agency theory. The model is tested with OLS regression and LISREL estimates based on a survey of local union leaders
in British Columbia. Results show that local union leaders are more satisfied with their grievance procedures when local officials
have more autonomy in decision making; their local size is smaller; the grievance filing rate is low; grievance issues are
perceived as important; the grievance resolution rate is high; a greater propor-tion of grievances are settled in the early
steps; and the union success rate is high. In addition, grievance procedure satisfaction is multifaceted and each facet has
its own unique variance and a different combination of significant predictors.
This research was supported by a grant from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. We thank Dev Jennings
for his helpful comments on an earlier version. 相似文献
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This article develops and empirically tests a model of the dual decision-making process employees undergo to guide their behavior
during organizing campaigns and elections. The model combines principles of risk-aversion theory with more traditional views
that election decisions stem from cost-benefit analyses of union representation. Previous research lacks this integrated approach
to the study of election behavior. Regression analyses on a sample of approximately 16,000 certification elections strongly
supported the use of risk-aversion theory to predict employees’ willingness to formally participate in elections. Furthermore,
we found that time exhibited a statistically significant, negative relationship with voting participation rates, the percentage
of union votes, and union victories. The results also indicated that a saturation effect may exist for delays in the election
process.
Financial support for this research was provided by the Syracuse University Research Fund. The authors wish to thank two anonymous
reviewers for helpful suggestions that significantly improved the paper. 相似文献
8.
We test a model based on social exchange theory to explain the patterns of membership voting in a local union officer election.
Survey data from members and stewards aggregated by 55 voting units, when combined with the control variable, explained 46
percent of the variance in the incumbent president's re-election. A greater percentage of member votes for the incumbent president
were related to higher union loyalty, higher confidence in the grievance procedure, better union-management relations, and
more positive perceptions of the union contract, findings that support our model of membership voting. 相似文献
9.
Conventional models of labor relations emphasize “business unionism,” that is, collective bargaining activities and outcomes.
We argue that a more realistic model of behavior incorporates the union’s role as an agent of redistribution that seeks to
benefit some members and union leaders primarily at the expense of other members, nonunion employees, and consumers. Union
power to redistribute wealth is obtained from the special privileges that labor organizations obtain from government. This
paper demonstrates how, as political entities, unions and their employers attempt to secure government-sanctioned wealth transfers
through protectionism.
The authors gratefully acknowledge research support provided by the Sarah Scaife Foundation and the Earhart Foundation. 相似文献
10.
In the 2000 elections, organized labor mounted a“massive“ political effort. The AFL-CIO spearheaded a program that emphasized
both grassroots and“checkbook” politics. Labor 2000, however, represented much more than an attempt to influence elections.
Political action, dedicated to a“Working Families Agenda“ became a strategy of choice to elect candidates, influence lawmakers,
mobilize union members, and recruit workers into the labor movement. In this paper, I examine Labor 2000 from a strategic-choice
perspective. Specifically, I look at the scope and variety of labor's political effort; how labor allocated its political
resources; the degree of competition it faced; and the election outcomes. In addition, I examine the effort in terms of its
potential for transforming unions. Data from a variety of sources, some of which have not been previously used, are examined
to put Labor 2000 into perspective as a strategy. The results indicate that labor did have some success in mobilizing union
members politically. However, labor's impact proved insufficient to achieve immediate national election goals. Questions remain
about the wisdom of political action as a strategy of choice, especially in terms of its viability as an instrument for institutional
revival. 相似文献
11.
Unions in the electric utility industry consistently won a greater percentage of elections between 1970 and 1989 than did
unions in other industries. Several factors significantly affected union victory rates at electric utilities: when the election
was held, the union involved, the size of the utility, the percent of the state’s labor force unionized, the number of eligible
voters, whether the election involved multiple-unions, and whether the election was Regional- or Board-directed. 相似文献
12.
Proponents of Approval Voting argue that this electoral rule leads to more centrist outcomes compared to Plurality Voting.
This claim has been substantiated by scholarly work using spatial models of political competition. We revisit this issue in
the context of a model of political competition in which (1) candidates are policy-motivated; (2) candidacy decisions are
endogenous; and (3) candidates can credibly commit to implementing any policy. Under these assumptions we find the opposite
to be true – Plurality Voting yields convergence to the median voter’s ideal policy but Approval Voting may not. We argue
that this result is driven by the differential incentives for candidate entry under the two voting rules. Our results suggest
that whether Approval Voting yields more centrist outcomes vis-á-vis Plurality Voting depends on the possibility of policy
commitment on the part of the candidates.
In an election held under PV each citizen is given one vote he can cast for one (and only one) candidate, and the candidate
who gets the most votes wins the election. 相似文献
13.
Conventional wisdom suggests that union members and their families are more politically active, and more likely to vote, than
nonmembers. This study presents, to our knowledge, the first systematic empirical examination of that conventional wisdom.
Results suggest that union members are more likely than nonmembers to vote in a general election, and that union campaign
efforts increase voter turnout generally. There is no evidence, however, that union family members are more likely to vote
than nonmembers, or that union status affects an individual’s likelihood of voting in a primary election.
The authors wish to thank Robert Perloff, Donna Sockell, and an anonymous referee for helpful comments on an earlier draft
of this paper. This study was partially supported by a Columbia University Graduate School of Business Faculty Research Fellowship
and a Faculty Research Grant from the University of Pittsburgh Graduate School of Business. 相似文献
14.
Outsourcing and union power 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Charles R. Perry 《Journal of Labor Research》1997,18(4):521-534
The outsourcing of union work and jobs either diffuses or diminishes union membership, depending on perspective and situation.
The correlation of trends in union membership to trends in union power, while less than perfect, has until recently been relatively
strong over the past sixteen years. The fact that as diverse a sample of unions as AFSCME, SEIU, and UAW have chosen to make
outsourcing a prominent labor/public relations issue suggests that the correlation continues to be perceived by the union
movement to be significant, notwithstanding the efforts of the “new” leadership of the AFL-CIO to break that link with respect
to union political power by “taxing” member unions and their members to contribute both money and militancy to the 1996 election
cycle.
Although outsourcing may lead only to the diffusion of union membership either within or between unions, as opposed to the
diminution of union membership, this fact has not received a great deal of attention. The net effect on total union membership
of outsourcing from one union employer to another union employer is unclear, although the effect on the membership of the
union at the outsourcing employer is not. The redistribution of membership within a union as a result of outsourcing is likely
to have little immediate impact on union power. However, as even the best case scenario presented above suggests, it may have
significant long-run deleterious effects on union bargaining power by taking labor out of a sheltered market and putting it
into potentially competitive market. This is particularly likely to be the case when outsourcing (1) places the outsourced
work into a different industry or wage contour and (2) creates the possibility of moving from sole-source to multiplesource
supplier arrangements.
The redistribution of membership between unions as a result of outsourcing is unlikely to have a major impact on union power
broadly defined. It can have, however, serious deleterious effects in terms of the power of an individual union, as suggested
in my “competitive case” scenario. The fact that one union’s losses due to outsourcing may be another union’s gain is of little
consolation to the losing union. That act, in and of itself, may make the threat of outsourcing a potential union “Achilles
heel” at the bargaining table by placing it into competition with some other, perhaps unknown, union as well as possibly nonunion
competition.
The most obvious threat to union power comes from outsourcing that diminishes union membership overall by transferring jobs
from union to nonunion employers. The willingness and ability of employers to move work/jobs entirely out of the orbit of
union control constitutes, in terms of power and particularly union bargaining power, a revisitation of the phenomenon of
the “runaway shop.” It may also be viewed as a proactive form of hiring permanent replacements for (potentially) striking
workers. The union options in dealing with such a challenge are to endeavor to preclude outsourcing through legislation or
collective bargaining or to chase the work by organizing the unorganized, hopefully with the help of the unionized outsourcing
employer. Neither option may be easy, but as the 1996 auto industry negotiations suggest, the former may be less difficult
than the latter. The possibility that outsourcing from union to nonunion employer may provide unions with the power to organize
from the top (outsourcer) down (outsourcee) cannot be entirely ignored as the issue of supplier “neutrality” reportedly was
raised in the 1996 auto negotiations.
The adverse effects of outsourcing on union political and financial power, by virtue of its impact on the level or distribution
of union membership, can and may well be offset by an increase in union activism—as measured by dues levels, merger activity,
organizing commitment, and political action. The adverse effects of outsourcing on union bargaining power are more problematical
from the union standpoint. The effect of outsourcing, whatever its rationale or scenario, appears to be to put union labor
back into competition. Thus, outsourcing constitutes yet another challenge to the labor movement in its ongoing and seemingly
increasingly unsuccessful battle to take and keep U.S. union labor out of competition by proving itself able and willing to
organize to the extent of the market and standardizing wages in that market. 相似文献
15.
This paper examines how police and firefighter unions’ political activities influence departmental expenditures. Unlike prior
research, we measure unions’ political activity independently of union bargaining power. Results indicate that a protective
service union’s electoral activities positively affect departmental expenditures, and these effects are attributable to union
political power rather than multilateral collective bargaining power.
The authors thank Steve Blumenfeld, Wally Hendricks, Asghar Zardkoohi, and an anonymous referee for their excellent comments
and suggestions. 相似文献
16.
Organized labor has become increasingly active in national politics. This development has encouraged research into union political
activities, particularly in the area of legislative politics. But little research has been published on the basis of congressional
support for union positions on diverse public policy items. This paper has examined the correlates of congressional support
for unions’ positions across 33 roll-call votes taken in the first session of the 98th Congress. Empirical analyses suggest
that certain factors, such as legislators’ party affiliation and constituents’ ideology, are consistent correlates of such
support across diverse legislation.
The authors wish to thank John Delaney and Jack Fiorito for their generous comments on a previous version of the paper. They
also wish to thank the union lobbyists who granted interviews. A Faculty Research Grant from the Graduate School of Business,
University of Pittsburgh, provided partial support. 相似文献
17.
Yonatan Reshef 《Journal of Labor Research》1990,11(1):25-39
Important changes are occurring in the Canadian unions’ political and economic environments. This paper argues that such changes
may be detrimental to Canadian trade unions, given their structural and institutional situation. To support this argument,
private-sector union and nonunion firms in Alberta are compared. This comparison uncovers some structural (union members’
employment patterns and union firm characteristics) and institutional (union services) attributes of unions. Combined with
the politico-economic environments that Alberta unions have faced since the early 1980s, these attributes have led to a decline
in union membership. Because these attributes are shared by many other Canadian unions, those unions may increasingly confront
some of the same hardships currently plaguing their Alberta counterparts.
I am indebted to Brian Bemmels, Alan Murray, and John G. Fricke for helpful comments on an earlier version of this paper,
and to Mike Jones for his research assistance. 相似文献
18.
There have been relatively few studies on why workers choose to decertify a union as their bargaining unit and virtually no
empirical studies on the outcomes of employer-initiated representation elections. Using data from the NLRB monthly election
reports (1977–1981), we attempt to analyze the factors that seem to influence the outcomes of employer-initiated representation
elections with an incumbent union. Variables in our analysis include size of the election unit, region, industrial classification,
type of incumbent union, and the state of the local economy. While the data show a concentration of elections on the West
Coast, there is no significant difference in the ability of unions there to “win” decertification elections. 相似文献
19.
John W. Budd 《Journal of Labor Research》1995,16(1):43-55
Like many industrial unions, the UAW places great emphasis on pattern-following contract settlements. However, research on
the rationales for pattern bargaining has been scarce, and evidence testing these rationales has been absent. The usual rationale
for pattern bargaining is to take wages out of competition. However, this paper presents evidence of important internal union
political reasons for pattern bargaining. If intra-union wage comparisons cause union members to feel unfairly treated, elected
leaders will be challenged. Thus, the UAW leadership pursues pattern bargaining to minimize political conflicts and maintain
stability.
Unless you know where you came from you don’t have the sense of direction that will lead you to the goals you seek.
Walter P. Reuther
That word “solidarity” isn’t rhetoric. For a union, it’s everything.
Bob White
Helpful comments by the Editor and an anonymous referee and financial support from the Jacob K. Javits Fellows Program, the
Henry J. Kaiser Family Foundation, and the Industrial Relations Section, Princeton University, are gratefully acknowledged.
Walter P. Reuther collection, Box 98-2, Walter P. Reuther Library of Labor and Urban Affairs, Wayne State University (WSU).
Walter P. Reuther was UAW President from 1946 to 1970.
White (1987, p. 51). Bob White was Director of the UAW Canadian Region from 1978 to 1985 and has been President of the National
Automobile, Aerospace and Agricultural Implement Workers of Canada (CAW) since 1985. 相似文献
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Amy Janan Johnson Eryn N. Bostwick Ioana A. Cionea 《Journal of Family Communication》2019,19(1):63-76
Four hundred and seventy-nine undergraduates reported on family discussions about the 2016 election that occurred over that same year’s Thanksgiving break. Family Communication Patterns Theory was used to predict the perceived outcomes of such discussion on family members. Higher conversation orientation predicted a more positive perceived effect of political talk on family closeness. Perceived similarity of political views partially moderated the relationship between conformity orientation and perceived effect of political talk on family closeness. Reported stress levels since the election were negatively predicted by the perceived (positive) effect of political talk on family closeness. Practical and theoretical implications for families and political socialization processes are discussed. 相似文献