Professional Documents
Culture Documents
• COLLECTIVE BARGAINING
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• Democratic Ideals
– Discriminatory treatment and a lack of minimum
standards is counter to the ideals of democracy
– Citizens should be free and equal
– Citizens must have a basic level of material
well-bring to function as political equals
– Equal protection
– Due process
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Collective Bargaining
• Representatives of the employer and
employees negotiate employment terms
and conditions
– Compensation (economic items)
– Personnel policies/procedures (language issues)
– Employee and employer rights and responsibilities
– Union rights and responsibilities
– Dispute resolution and ongoing decision making
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Collective Bargaining
• The crucial feature of collective bargaining
– Management’s authority to unilaterally establish
the terms and conditions of employment is
replaced by bilateral negotiations
– Workers have a collective voice
• The result of bargaining is a contract
– One page in 1937
– Hundreds of pages and multiple volumes today
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Collective Bargaining
• Pressures for competitiveness and quality
add pressure to collective bargaining
– The need for flexibility (efficiency) clashes with
lengthy contracts with detailed work rules (equity)
– The need for cooperation and employee
involvement clashes with the adversarial
bargaining process
– The need for flexibility and involvement is not
well served by long-term contracts
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Representation Gap
• Employees want more representation in
the workplace than they have
– One-third of nonunion workers would like
a union in their workplace
– Union density is only 10 percent
• Is this related to private section employer
opposition to unionization?
– Also declining in Great Britain
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