Just cause across industries: VI. Media, Communications, and Technology
The panelists use a hypothetical discharge to analyze just cause pertaining to the use of new technologies.
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Invited papers: 2. “We didn’t have time to train the monkeys!” The 2002 Presidential Board of Inquiry on the work stoppage in the West Coast ports.
This paper contains a description of the measures that can be invoked for strikes deemed “national emergencies,” and the realities faced in their application. The… Read More »Invited papers: 2. “We didn’t have time to train the monkeys!” The 2002 Presidential Board of Inquiry on the work stoppage in the West Coast ports.
The relentless search for efficiency in the workplace:Innovative human resource practices and workplace efficiency
An examination of practices for the implementation of operational efficiencies. The author concludes that a combination of teamwork and incentives best enhance workplace efficiency. Mutual… Read More »The relentless search for efficiency in the workplace:Innovative human resource practices and workplace efficiency
The changing nature of work and people:An analysis of the changing nature of work and people
An examination of the 4 generations in United States since 1927 – the depression – the baby boom – the baby bust – and the… Read More »The changing nature of work and people:An analysis of the changing nature of work and people
The relentless search for efficiency in the workplace:Introduction
Introduction of speakers addressing techniques for accommodating technologies, subcontracting, and other efficiencies in the unionized workplace.
Downsizing and other restructuring problems: Management perspective, Labor perspective and comments
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.… Read More »Downsizing and other restructuring problems: Management perspective, Labor perspective and comments
The forms and limits of representation
The author posits that the present forms of union organization and representation are not adequate to meet l of the organizational and representational challenges that… Read More »The forms and limits of representation
Contributed papers; Part II: Rights arbitration and technological change
A report on a survey of published arbitration decisions between 1980 and 1984 involving disputes resulting from the introduction of technological changes, concluding that principles… Read More »Contributed papers; Part II: Rights arbitration and technological change
The role of the [British Columbia] Labour Board as an alternative to arbitration
The British Columbia Labour Code requires collective bargaining agreements to include arbitration of unresolved grievances, both discharge and discipline (for “just and reasonable cause” only),… Read More »The role of the [British Columbia] Labour Board as an alternative to arbitration
Problems of collective bargaining and dispute settlement in the East and Gulf Coast longshore industry
An examination of collective bargaining in the longshore industry that includes a discussion of the results of the Department of Labor’s Longshore Project, with particular… Read More »Problems of collective bargaining and dispute settlement in the East and Gulf Coast longshore industry