Labor/management Relations Among Government Employees

by Harry Kershen

Overview

Includes articles which offer a mix of theoretical analysis, case history and empirical research, interspersed with good, practical advice from those who have sat long hours at the bargaining table.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780895030337
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	06/15/1983
Series:	Public Sector Contemporary Issues , #2
Pages:	224
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

Table of Contents

Preface — PART I AN OVERVIEW — 1. One More Time: What Is Collective Bargaining in the Public Sector All About?/Craig E. Overton and Max S. Wortman, Jr — 2. A Model of the Public Sector Wage Determination Process—With Special Reference to Institutional Factors/Beth Walter Honadle — 3. Collective Bargaining by State Workers: Legislatures Have the Final Voice in the Appropriation of Funds/Jan W. Hen kel and Norman J. Wood — 4. Productivity and Job Security: The Issues of the 1980’s in U.S. Public Sector Labor Relations/George T. Sulzner — PART II MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES — 5. Public Employee Unions—The Political Imperative/Michael Marmo — 6. How to Deal with a Strike as an Elected Official/Mary W. Henderson — 7. Can Public Pension Plans Survive under PERISA?/Joseph W Wilson — 8. The Impact of Compulsory Arbitration on Municipal Budgets— The Case of Omaha, Nebraska/Donald E. Purse!! and William D. Torrence — PART III STATE EMPLOYEES — 9. Centralization or Decentralization of Bargaining among State Government Employees: An Examination of the Options/Mark A. Haskell — 10. Multi-Employer Bargaining in the Public Sector in Hawaii/Jack E. Klauser — 11. An Empirical Investigation of Compi-ehension of the Right-to-Work Law among Residents of the State of Virginia/Marc G. Singer, Harold L. Durrett0 Kenneth C. Williamson and Kathy L. Shannon — 12. The Impact of Proposition 13 on Public Employee Relations: The Case of Los Angeles/Gene Swimmer — 13. Proposition 2: The Massachusetts Tax Revolt and Its Impact on Public Sector Labor Relations/Gary D. Altman — PART IV FEDERAL EMPLOYEES — 14. Bargaining Structure in the Public Sector: The TVA “Model”/Michael L. Brookshire — 15. Why Federal Government Employees Join Unions: A Study of AFGE Local 1138/Louis V.lmundo,Jr — 16. The Impact of Labor-Management Cooperation Committees on Personnel Policies and Practices at Twenty Federal Bargaining Units/George T. Sulzrter — PART V PROPOSED NATIONAL LEGISLATION — 17. Impact of Proposed Federal Public Employee Bargaining on State Legislation/Myron Lieberman — 18. The Need for Urgency in Federal Sector Bargaining/Ronald W. Haughton.