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Private-sector collective bargaining in the United States is under siege. Many factors have contributed to this situation, including the development of global markets, a continuing antipathy toward unions by managers, and the declining effectiveness of strikes. This volume examines collective bargaining in eight major industries—airlines, automobile manufacturing, health care, hotels and casinos, newspaper publishing, professional sports, telecommunications, and trucking—to gain insight into the challenges the parties face and how they have responded to those challenges.
The authors suggest that collective bargaining is evolving differently across the industries studied. While the forces constraining bargaining have not abated, changes in the global environment, including new security considerations, may create opportunities for unions. Across the industries, one thing is clear—private-sector collective bargaining is rapidly changing.
Richard Bank, AFL-CIO Center for Collective Bargaining
Rosemary Batt, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University
Michael H. Belzer, Wayne State University and Trucking Industry Program
Paul F. Clark, Pennsylvania State University
John T. Delaney, Broad College of Business, Michigan State University
James B. Dworkin, Krannert School of Management, Purdue University
Vincent H. Eade, Harrah College of Hotel Administration, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Ann C. Frost, Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario
Nancy Brown Johnson, Carol Martin Gatton College of Business and Economics, University of Kentucky
Harry C. Katz, School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University
Jeffrey Keefe, School of Management and Labor Relations, Rutgers University
John Paul MacDuffie, Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania
Frits K. Pil, Katz School of Business, University of Pittsburgh
Richard A. Posthuma, University of Texas, El Paso
Howard R. Stanger, Canisius College
C. Jeffrey Waddoups, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
Peter Warrian, Centre for Industrial Relations, University of Toronto
Reviews
"The authors propose that collective bargaining is developing differently in the various profiled industries, and that although there are contrary forces at work there may be new opportunities for union growth."—ILR Connections, Winter 2004
"Collective Bargaining in the Private Sector is a valuable resource for scholars, students, practitioners, and policy-makers wanting to learn about the contemporary state of US private sector industrial relations in the eight industries described. This volume will also have enduring value for scholars and practitioners in future years who can use it to look back and see what US industrial relations was like at the start of the new millennium."—John Budd, University of Minnesota, The Journal of Industrial Relations 46:1, March 2004
About the Author
Paul F. Clark is Professor of Labor Studies and Industrial Relations at Pennsylvania State University. He has served as an education and research consultant for more than twenty-five national and numerous local unions. He is the author of Building More Effective Unions and coeditor of Forging a Union of Steel: Philip Murray, SWOC, and the United Steelworkers, both from Cornell. John T. Delaney is Professor and Associate Dean for M.B.A. Programs at the Broad College of Business, Michigan State University. Ann C. Frost is Assistant Professor of Organizational Behavior and Dean’s Faculty Fellow at the Richard Ivey School of Business, University of Western Ontario.
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