Involuntary disputes: When competition for members forces smaller unions to strike

arket competition and strike activity

We develop a model of wage bargaining with private information in a duopoly. We investigate how product differentiation and market competition (Bertrand vs. Cournot competition) affect wages and strikes. If bargaining takes place at the industry-level, then both the wage outcome and the strike activity do not depend on the degree of product differentiation whatever the type of market competitio...

To strike or not to strike.

Role of members of university students' unions in tobacco prevention.

INTRODUCTION In Egypt, each faculty has it own students' union, which represents the students and collaborates in organizing all educational, sporting and social activities. The objectives of the current study were to evaluate the knowledge of members of students' unions about cigarette and Shisha smoking together with assessing their attitudes towards smoking in public places in general and in...

When can competition for resources lead to ecological equivalence?

Question: Under what conditions do species using distinct niches evolve and converge to become ecologically equivalent? Does evolution in a community context affect functional group diversity? Mathematical methods: We simulated the population dynamics and evolution of multiple species competing for discrete, substitutable resources. Key assumptions: Species’ competitive effect and response are ...

Profit-sharing, Bertrand Competition and Monopoly Unions: a Note

This paper studies a strategic aspect of pro t-sharing in an oligopolistic industry with a monopoly union. Whenever a uniform pro t share exists in the industry, we show that a union that values the per worker remuneration positively, may have incentives to reduce industry employment, decreasing thus total output and causing total pro ts to increase. Thus, we show that pro t-sharing may lead to...