Originally published by the National Center for Study of Collective Bargaining in Higher Education and Professions, Proceedings, Twenty-Second Annual Conference, April, 1994, During a Period Change, Frank R. Annunziato, Director, Beth H. Johnson, Conference Organizer

This paper examines the distributional consequences of the recent transformation of the industrial relations system in Australia, with a shift from a collective bargaining system with comprehensive involvement of trade unions at both the national and industry levels to a system based on workplace bargaining with no union involvement. The paper presents the results of regression analyses which r...

Since the passage of the National Labor Relations Act in 1935, collective bargaining has been the primary means by which U.S. workers can collectively negotiate terms and conditions of employment with their employer. Currently, more than 100,000 contracts are in effect, covering approximately 9 million workers and their employers in the private sector. (An additional 8 million workers are cover...

lndustrial disputes in general are settled through the mechanism of collective bargaining at the initial stage. The failure of collective bargaining leads the disputes to the system of conciliation under the statutory compulsion. The lndustrial Disputes Act 1947 under Section 2(K) defines the industrial dispute as "any dispute or difference between employers and employers or between employers a...