Collective Bargaining in Libraries (Book Review)

Book Review: Success Through Political Action: Collective Bargaining in the Private Sector

We all know that labor unions in the private sector are in untrammeled decline. From about twenty-five percent in the 1950s, today the percent of employees in the private sector that are members of a labor union is less than nine percent.' It is expected that the decline will continue until union density reaches an equilibrium point of about three percent.' The future is not bright. However, un...

Collective rationality in bargaining

Roth (1977) axiomatized the Nash (1950) bargaining solution without Pareto optimality. His result is considered an improvement on Nash’s original one, since it dispenses with notions of collective rationality. Several variants of Roth’s result have been obtained in a line of subsequent works. However, all of them rely on Nash’s (1950) independence axiom. Whether or how collective rationality ca...

"Productivity Measures in Collective Bargaining"

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Collective Bargaining in Higher Education

Collective Bargaining in Higher Education

An approach to collective bargaining, in which structure and governance are carefully introduced into a contract, can act as a kind of restraint on both parties and minimize the scope of adversarial relationships to those matters for which there appears to be no alternative. By enlarging the role and responsibilities of faculty governance within the collective bargaining agreement, such alterna...