Add to ORKGDo core doctrines of labor-relations law obstruct the internal democratic governance of labor unions in the United States? Union democracy is likely an essential precondition for the broader strategic and organizational changes unions must undertake in order to recruit new union members — the labor movement’s cardinal priority. Yet according to widely accepted wisdom, the weakness of democracy within labor unions is the unavoidable outcome of an “iron law of oligarchy” that operates in all such membership-based organizations. This Article challenges this conventional thinking and argues that the triumph of oligarchy over democracy in US labor unions is not inevitable, but conditioned on the nature of American labor law. The main message is ...
Labor unions are a controversial and relatively little understood species of organization. While emp...
Conventional workplace law includes the law of collective bargaining and employment contracts. This ...
Union membership, as a percentage of the private sector workforce, has been in decline for 50 years....
Do core doctrines of labor-relations law obstruct the internal democratic governance of labor unions...
Since the Webbs published Industrial Democracy at the end of the nineteenth century, the principle t...
The beginning of the second decade of the 21st century saw renewed attacks on public employee collec...
[Excerpt] Much of the research on union democracy and almost all of the press coverage focuses on ab...
This Article begins by briefly describing how legal and political action has come to be a central st...
U.S. private sector unionism is in decline. From a high watermark in 1953 of around 35.7% of the pri...
This Article addresses these questions first by discussing the predominant philosophical approach ad...
American labor unions have collapsed. Having once bargained for more than a third of American worker...
This paper, prepared for The Future of Organized Labor in America symposium at Wayne State Univers...
There is a growing consensus among scholars and public policy experts that fundamental labor law ref...
Legislation has been introduced in the United States that will allow workers to form unions without ...
This article addresses the question of how social movement organ-izations are able to break out of b...
Labor unions are a controversial and relatively little understood species of organization. While emp...
Conventional workplace law includes the law of collective bargaining and employment contracts. This ...
Union membership, as a percentage of the private sector workforce, has been in decline for 50 years....
Do core doctrines of labor-relations law obstruct the internal democratic governance of labor unions...
Since the Webbs published Industrial Democracy at the end of the nineteenth century, the principle t...
The beginning of the second decade of the 21st century saw renewed attacks on public employee collec...
[Excerpt] Much of the research on union democracy and almost all of the press coverage focuses on ab...
This Article begins by briefly describing how legal and political action has come to be a central st...
U.S. private sector unionism is in decline. From a high watermark in 1953 of around 35.7% of the pri...
This Article addresses these questions first by discussing the predominant philosophical approach ad...
American labor unions have collapsed. Having once bargained for more than a third of American worker...
This paper, prepared for The Future of Organized Labor in America symposium at Wayne State Univers...
There is a growing consensus among scholars and public policy experts that fundamental labor law ref...
Legislation has been introduced in the United States that will allow workers to form unions without ...
This article addresses the question of how social movement organ-izations are able to break out of b...
Labor unions are a controversial and relatively little understood species of organization. While emp...
Conventional workplace law includes the law of collective bargaining and employment contracts. This ...
Union membership, as a percentage of the private sector workforce, has been in decline for 50 years....