'bargaining and Strikes

Dynamic unstructured bargaining with private information and deadlines: theory and experiment

We study dynamic unstructured bargaining with deadlines and one-sided private information, via theory and experiment. We predict the incidence of bargaining failures (“strikes”) and payoffs in each state by combining mechanism design and focal point approaches. Strikes are common in states with lower surpluses (“pies”) and strike incidence is decreasing in the pie size. Subjects reach equal spl...

Unions, Bargaining and Strikes

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...

Capsule Reviews

This volume examines collective bargaining in eight major industries: airlines, automobile manufacturing, health care, hotels and casinos, newspaper publishing, professional sports, telecommunications, and trucking. The book examines how these industries have responded to globalization, increasing management antipathy toward unions and the declining effectiveness of strikes. The authors trace t...

Global medicine: Is it ethical or morally justifiable for doctors and other healthcare workers to go on strike?

BACKGROUND Doctor and healthcare worker (HCW) strikes are a global phenomenon with the potential to negatively impact on the quality of healthcare services and the doctor-patient relationship. Strikes are a legitimate deadlock breaking mechanism employed when labour negotiations have reached an impasse during collective bargaining. Striking doctors usually have a moral dilemma between adherence...