Add to ORKGThe United States is currently in a heated debate over the extent to which public-sector workers should be permitted to band together for mutual aid or protection, to form, join or assist unions, and to bargain collectively. This debate was sparked when, shortly after the 2010 midterm elections, politicians in states with large public deficits blamed public-sector unions for budget shortfalls. Public unions are not, however, the cause of the states’ ills. After all, public unions are not the source of wages and benefits — governments are. Furthermore, the evidence shows that, in general, public-sector-union pay is lower than the pay of their private sector counterparts even when benefits are taken into account; tenure is typically not colle...
In an earlier article in this Journal, The Limits of Collective Bargaining in Public Employment, we ...
This article, part of a symposium on the history of various areas of labor and employment law, gives...
Organized labor is one of the largest voluntary organizations in the United States, representing ove...
The United States is currently in a heated debate over the extent to which public-sector workers sho...
Recently some state and local governments in the United States have sharply reduced or eliminated pu...
Recently some state and local governments in the United States have sharply reduced or eliminated em...
This article discusses the arguments against adopting collective bargaining in the public sector and...
The beginning of the second decade of the 21st century saw renewed attacks on public employee collec...
I document the dramatic divergence between the fortunes of unions in the public and private sectors ...
In the United States, a small portion of firefighters are responsible for fire and emergency respons...
Public sector unionization rose dramatically during the 1960s and 1970s – even as private sector uni...
Whether the public sector is indeed sufficiently different from the private sector to warrant the as...
The attacks on public-sector union rights in the United States that began in 2011 are one of the mos...
Published in cooperation with the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolutio
Labor unions do not have a well-understood rationale, as do capitalist enterprises, strictly volunta...
In an earlier article in this Journal, The Limits of Collective Bargaining in Public Employment, we ...
This article, part of a symposium on the history of various areas of labor and employment law, gives...
Organized labor is one of the largest voluntary organizations in the United States, representing ove...
The United States is currently in a heated debate over the extent to which public-sector workers sho...
Recently some state and local governments in the United States have sharply reduced or eliminated pu...
Recently some state and local governments in the United States have sharply reduced or eliminated em...
This article discusses the arguments against adopting collective bargaining in the public sector and...
The beginning of the second decade of the 21st century saw renewed attacks on public employee collec...
I document the dramatic divergence between the fortunes of unions in the public and private sectors ...
In the United States, a small portion of firefighters are responsible for fire and emergency respons...
Public sector unionization rose dramatically during the 1960s and 1970s – even as private sector uni...
Whether the public sector is indeed sufficiently different from the private sector to warrant the as...
The attacks on public-sector union rights in the United States that began in 2011 are one of the mos...
Published in cooperation with the American Bar Association Section of Dispute Resolutio
Labor unions do not have a well-understood rationale, as do capitalist enterprises, strictly volunta...
In an earlier article in this Journal, The Limits of Collective Bargaining in Public Employment, we ...
This article, part of a symposium on the history of various areas of labor and employment law, gives...
Organized labor is one of the largest voluntary organizations in the United States, representing ove...