All Posts Tagged With: "collective bargaining"

Capital Letters

To the Editor: In response to Charles Baird’s article “Sources of Pro-Union Sentimentality” (Ideas on Liberty, March), I would like to respond with a few points overlooked. Although I agree with most of the points brought up by Professor Baird, I think unions do play a legitimate role in the marketplace for several reasons. First, [...]

1Jun2000 | | 0 comments | Continued

Beyond Unions and Collective Bargaining

Labor unions are nonprofit businesses whose managers benefit to the extent that they can get workers to accept their representation services in exchange for the payment of dues. Supposedly—and there is some statistical evidence to support the claim—unionized workers enjoy higher earnings than non-unionized workers in comparable jobs. Unions also claim that they give workers [...]

1May2000 | | 0 comments | Continued

William H. Hutt: A Centenary Appreciation

In the mid-1980s I had the good fortune to be teaching at the University of Dallas with Professor William H. Hutt as a colleague. By that time he was already in his mid-80s and held the title of “emeritus.” Though stricken with an increasingly debilitating case of arthritis, Professor Hutt would be in his office [...]

1Aug1999 | | 8 comments | Continued

James F. Lincoln: Industrial Peacemaker

Daniel Hager is a freelance writer in Lansing, Michigan. The dichotomy between labor and management does not actually exist. Enlightened self-interest eliminates contentious factionalism in employment relations. Unfortunately, government has intervened in the workplace to convert it into a battleground and to institutionalize coercive conduct that is akin to warfare. The victims are consumers and [...]

1Apr1999 | | 1 comment | Continued

The Myth of Compulsory Union Membership

Organized labor wants workers to think they can be forced to join a union as a condition of continued employment. The union-employer agreements that accomplish that are called “union security” clauses in collective bargaining pacts. For example, Weyerhaeuser Paper Co. and the United Paperworkers International Union (UPIU) have a union security clause that requires all [...]

1Mar1998 | | 2 comments | Continued

Elections, Extortion, and Unions

Suppose Congress passed a law that abolished secret-ballot elections for membership in Congress. Instead, each candidate, and his or her campaign workers, collected signatures of support from voters. The signatures would be solicited face to face from each voter, who could give his or her signature to only one candidate in each election. The winning [...]

1Jan1998 | | 0 comments | Continued

The New Unionism in the New Society: Public Sector Unions in the Redistributive States

Leo Troy, Distinguished Professor of Economics at Rutgers University, has written much about the American union movement–its history, law, economics, and future prospects. The focus of his work has been the changing nature of unionism here and in other advanced industrial countries, especially Canada. In New Unionism he has brought together the analyses of several [...]

1May1995 | | 0 comments | Continued

Trade Union Crisis

Mr. Brogan is a British journalist, author, and advocate of competitive private enterprise. Years of easy credit, malinvestment, union domination, and other aspects of political intervention lead to a day of reckoning for Britain’s auto industry. Ever since the end of the War it has been the proudest boast of British politicians that full employment [...]

1Oct1956 | | 0 comments | Continued
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