Between 1975 and 1997, school teacher bargaining was conducted under the School Boards and Teachers Collective Negotiations Act (Bill 100). By most accounts, the teacher bargaining law was successful in promoting bilateral settlements with minimal strike activity. Following its election in 1995, the Harris government reduced public expenditures and introduced educational reforms. In doing so, i...

Online group purchasing or collective purchasing is the activity in which people who desire to buy the same merchandises join together so that they can negotiate with sellers for a better price through Internet. This paper utilizes fuzzy logic to develop a bargaining model for such activities. The model supports buyers to make group decision to set up their bargaining strategy; instead of using...

This study investigated the role of collective bargaining in resolving conflicts in organizations with a view to solving the current phenomena of conflicts being experienced in organizations and making them more effective, efficient and conducive for the development of the organization. The purposes of this study also ascertain the relevance of collective bargaining as an alternative approach t...

This paper employs a novel, firm-level collective bargaining dataset, which is extracted directly from 10-K filings, to investigate the effect of labor, as an important stakeholder of a firm, on debt contracting. I find that employees’ collective bargaining power is positively associated with loan spreads despite the possible alignment of interests between employees and debt holders. Prior lite...