Union Organizing and Public Policy

Failure to Secure First Contracts

William N. Cooke , University of Michigan

Investigates factors that explain why 25-30 percent of the time unions fail to obtain collective bargaining agreements after winning the right to negotiate.

Table of Contents
  1. Evolution of the National Labor Relations Act
  2. The National Labor Relations Board
  3. An Empirical Investigation of First-Contract Negotiation Outcomes
  4. Policy Implications and Recommendations
  5. Summary and Conclusions

159 pp. 1985
$15 paper ISBN 0-88099-027-9 / ISBN-13 978-0-88099-027-1.

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