Downsizing, in response to competition and automation, often results in reallocation of remaining jobs; reclassifications; revised job duties, wage rates and job schedules; and subcontracting. The authors address, respectively, the…

Arbitrator Das describes the implementation of a restructuring (force reduction) agreement between Northwestern Steel & Wire Company and the Steelworkers Union, for which agreement he served as arbitrator. He observes…

Panelists representing the management of US Airways, the pilots union, the CWA (representing employees at the ticket counters, gates and in reservations), and flight attendants discuss the effects on contract…