The author notes the shift from regulation to competition in the trucking, telecommunications, and energy industries (natural gas and electricity), and its effect on labor… Read More »Structural changes in public utilities:Impact on labor-management relations
NLRB Chairman Gould describes the efforts of the NLRB to develop new mechanisms for 1) processing appropriate bargaining unit disputes, 2) mediating ULPs, 3) resolving… Read More »Distinguished speaker: This generation’s reconciliation
Professor Cox asserts the need to create new processes to encourage cooperation between government, organizations, and individuals whose activities are directly affected by government. He… Read More »Distinguished speaker: Building bridges
Professor Rentfro proffers that evolving societal values are reflected in the workplace: sexual harassment cases; drug and alcohol cases (and employee assistance programs); and a… Read More »Changing values in the workplace and arbitration
Secretary Usery observes that global competition has weakened the nature of collective bargaining. He recommends the acceptance of United States workers as partners, and cites… Read More »New industrial relations and industrial justice
The author, former International President of the UAW, proposes that the unions that are on the right course are those with leadership and membership that… Read More »Is the labor movement on the right course?
Under Secretary Schlossberg observes that 1) the forces of global competition, 2) new technologies and 3) the emergence of information and service jobs as the… Read More »Challenge and change