Collective Bargaining [antikvár]

PREFACECollective bargaining has developed in recent years in ways quite different from those that were assumed only a decade ago. While it has spread to the public sector and is widely used there, it has actually declined in the private sector. Fewer workers in business firms are now covered by collective bargaining agreements today than at any time in the past generation. There is a continuing, pervasive skepticism about the worth of collective bargaining among both the public and management. It meets with no great opposition where it is already well established; but except for unionists few are convinced that it should be more widely practiced than it is at present. Dissatisfaction continues to be expressed with procedural anachronisms that linger on, and many labor advocates raise concerns over the failure of collective bargaining to win a more commanding place in the relationships of employers and employees.This third edition of Collective Bargaining has been revised to reflect both recent research and the changes in labor institutions and industrial relations. It still considers the history, nature, problems, and potential of collective bargaining, stressing the evolutionary nature of the bargaining process, the mixture of styles, both primitive and sophisticated, that continue to manifest themselves, and the ongoing changes in procedures, and even in conception, of bargaining. These emphases seem as appropriate today as they did when the first edition appeared.Popular commentators and many labor scholars believe that both unions and managements need to consider new approaches to old needs in a time of spreading industrialization throughout the world and consequent increases in world competition. The needs are compounded by rapidly changing technologies that are increasing service occupations and industries much faster than manufacturing, long the bastion of unions and collective bargaining. Both union and management negotiators have so concentrated upon the daily issues and narrow concerns of their immediate responsibilities that there has been all too little experimentation in new forms of collective bargaining. Only out of the difficulties of plant closures, threatened bankruptcies, and declining markets have both parties realized that cooperation may be more than an ideal it may be a necessity.XViif-