TY - CHAP T1 - Collective Bargaining in American Industry: A Synthesis T2 - Collective Bargaining in American Industry: Contemporary Perspectives and Future Directions Y1 - 1987 A1 - Donn, C. B. A1 - D. B. Lipsky ED - D. B. Lipsky ED - Donn, C. B. KW - collective bargaining KW - industry KW - labor KW - labor relations KW - management KW - United States AB -

[excerpt] The preceding eight chapters deal with the current status of collective bargaining in eight U.S. industries. The differences between collective bargaining for police officers and auto workers or between professional athletes and college professors are obvious and illustrate the richness and variety of contemporary collective bargaining. Despite that diversity, however, the eight industries exhibit important similarities in collective bargaining. The common themes that link most, if not all, of the industries examined in this volume are perhaps less obvious, but a careful reading of the preceding chapters reveals that there have been a number of common factors affecting collective bargaining in these industries even though the responses of the different labor-management pairs have varied.

This chapter identifies and discusses some of the most important of the common themes that emerge from the study of these eight industries. The same general framework used to organize each of the industry studies—a modification of Dunlop's systems model—is again used here to examine those themes. Although most of the topics discussed below will be illustrated with examples from at least two of the eight industries, some references will also be made to the experience in industries not covered in this book. We conclude by discussing the future of collective bargaining in American industry.

JA - Collective Bargaining in American Industry: Contemporary Perspectives and Future Directions PB - Lexington Books CY - Lexington, MA L2 - eng UR - http://digitalcommons.ilr.cornell.edu/articles/800/ ER - TY - BOOK T1 - Collective Bargaining in American Industry: Contemporary Perspectives and Future Directions Y1 - 1987 A1 - D. B. Lipsky A1 - Donn, C. B. KW - collective bargaining KW - labor KW - labor relations KW - management AB -

[Excerpt] Of course, collective bargaining in this country has always been an institution rich in diversity. The nature of each collective bargaining relationship came about through a variety of influences both internal and external to the bargaining process. The internal factors include such things as the ideology of labor and management, the way the unions and employers were organized, and the history of the relationship between the parties. The external factors include the state of the economy and the nature of the laws and court decisions that regulate bargaining practices.

Nonetheless, this diversity has never been more in evidence than in the 1980s. The environmental forces mentioned above placed such strains on labor and management that bargaining in many industries was jolted out of the path it had followed since World War II. Different unions and employers responded to these pressures in different ways, however, creating more diversity than had been apparent for most of the post-World War II period.

This volume was designed with the intent of capturing that diversity. The eight industry studies illustrate the variety of ways in which bargaining is practiced as well as the diversity of forces and industry adaptations that have been reshaping collective bargaining in the United States. Thus, we present studies of industries in which collective bargaining is a well-established process (automobiles and agricultural machinery, for example) and ones in which it is not (higher education and police). We have a representative selection of manufacturing and services, private sector and public sector, white-collar and blue-collar bargaining.

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