All Posts Tagged With: "unionization"
EFCA and Compromise
As proposed, the Employee Free Choice Act (EFCA) would 1) replace secret-ballot union representation elections with card-check certification of unions as exclusive (monopoly) bargaining agents for workers in their workplaces; 2) impose compulsory-interest arbitration on employers who do not agree to a first union contract within 130 days; and 3) increase penalties on alleged unfair [...]
19Aug2009 | Charles W. Baird | 0 comments | ContinuedLabor Economics from a Free Market Perspective: Employing the Unemployable
Notwithstanding its title, this is not a textbook on labor economics. Rather, as the author stipulates in the introduction, it is “an ideological book.” It is a collection of papers written, sometimes with coauthors, by Block during the 1990s and 2000s on various labor-related topics. Of the 29 chapters, all but three were first published [...]
21May2009 | Charles W. Baird | 0 comments | ContinuedFree Men for Better Job Performance ~ Part I
American industry and its managements have been the world’s leaders in management techniques and in productive efficiency. However, there are signs that this leadership may be slipping. Most companies are experiencing Parkinsonism in a mild if not severe form. Decentralization and other techniques have neglected the consideration of individual employees and their ownership and control of the faculties for which they were employed.
1Jun2007 | C.L. Dickinson | 1 comment | ContinuedShould Professors Be Allowed to Unionize?
A current dispute at a liberal-arts college in Wisconsin prompts me to ask whether professors should be allowed to unionize. For many years I have been interested in questions of labor law and probably would have been interested in this dispute even if it did not happen to involve my alma mater. Carroll College is [...]
1Mar2006 | George C. Leef | 0 comments | Continued-
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