When Unions Merge
Title | When Unions Merge PDF eBook |
Author | Gary N. Chaison |
Publisher | Lexington, Mass. ; Toronto : Lexington Books |
Pages | 676 |
Release | 1986 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780669110814 |
Labor Union Mergers
Title | Labor Union Mergers PDF eBook |
Author | Gary N. Chaison |
Publisher | |
Pages | |
Release | 2016 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9783319319827 |
Labor Union Mergers
Title | Labor Union Mergers PDF eBook |
Author | Gary Chaison |
Publisher | Springer |
Pages | 0 |
Release | 2016-05-09 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9783319319803 |
This Brief examines the way that labor unions have been able to use mergers to survive the trend of sharply declining size and bargaining power. Using the metaphor of a ship adrift in a stormy sea, the author addresses the often-asked questions of why unions merge, how unions merge, and what unions can accomplish by merging. The first chapter sets the stage for union mergers by presenting the dilemma of American unions. The second chapter describes the motivation to merge by linking it to union decline. The third chapter deals with the barriers to merger, primarily major differences in union governance and opposition from officers, members and union staff. The fourth chapter examines the specific process by which unions amalgamate and absorb, the dynamics of merger overtures and negotiations, and the themes and variations of merger agreements and merger implementation agreements. The fifth chapter examines merger outcomes and the degree to which mergers are only a partial solution and often cannot resolve the problems that prompted them. The sixth and final chapter summarizes the present and future role that mergers might play in stabilizing and strengthening a labor movement adrift in a sea of turmoil. This Brief will be of interest to scholars of industrial relations, labor economics, and management.
Union Mergers in Hard Times
Title | Union Mergers in Hard Times PDF eBook |
Author | Gary N. Chaison |
Publisher | Cornell University Press |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780801483806 |
Gary N. Chaison addresses questions implicit in the decline of unions in the United States, Canada, Great Britain, Australia, and New Zealand.
Trade Union Mergers and Labor Conglomerates
Title | Trade Union Mergers and Labor Conglomerates PDF eBook |
Author | Gideon Chitayat |
Publisher | New York, N.Y. : Praeger |
Pages | 248 |
Release | 1979 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN |
Monograph on trade union mergers and trade union federations in the USA - analyses merger negotiations and membership concentration in the iron and steel industries, mail handlers, pulp and paper industry, railway industry, etc., And includes a chronology of mergers, a list of trade unions and employees associations and merger agreements. Bibliography pp. 205 to 218, references and statistical tables.
Trade Union Merger Strategies
Title | Trade Union Merger Strategies PDF eBook |
Author | Roger Undy |
Publisher | Oxford University Press on Demand |
Pages | 316 |
Release | 2008-05-22 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 0199544948 |
As Trade Union membership has declined, merger and amalgamation have been prominent features in strategies of revitalization. Yet, there is very little systematic, empirical research into their effects on unions or the wider union movement. This ground-breaking study fills this gap with its in-depth analysis of British unions' mergers since 1978.
Restructuring Representation
Title | Restructuring Representation PDF eBook |
Author | Jeremy Waddington |
Publisher | Peter Lang |
Pages | 420 |
Release | 2005 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9789052012537 |
Throughout the industrialised world trade unionists are reforming their organisations as part of a strategy to adjust to new labour market, economic and political circumstances. This volume examines the role of merger activity in this process of reform. The book identifies the pattern of merger activity, the factors that promote its development and its impact on union structure and governance. Most merger activity is shown to originate in some adverse environmental change, such as membership decline. Furthermore, there is little evidence to suggest that mergers have improved union performance in the recruitment, retention and organisation of members, although, in some cases, the reform of systems of membership participation has been facilitated. The shift away from industrial unions has been accelerated by merger involvement, which has also brought into question the role of confederations where the number of affiliated unions has declined markedly. The book comprises two sections. The first section examines the merger process in ten countries (Australia, Austria, Denmark, Germany, Greece, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, UK and US). The second section comprises three 'horizontal' chapters in which authors of the national chapters develop themes that emerge from the national chapters in comparative perspective.