Labor unions and Nash bargaining using coalition formation games

In this paper we examine the properties of stable coalitions under sequential and simultaneous bargaining by competing labor unions. We do this using the Nash bargaining solution and various notions of stability, namely, Nash, coalitional, contractual and core stability. (C) 2011 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved,

Does globalization weaken labor unions in developing countries?

For a developing economy with a given urban wage rate, globalization in capital markets strengthens labor unions. This result hinges on the fixed urban wage rate, which leads to a constant capital–labor ratio in the urban sector. Globalization via capital inflows not only enhances the employment effect of unionization but also reduces the rent-shifting related loss in production inefficiency to domestic capital, lending a support to labor unions for developing economies. This result is contrary to the common belief that labor unions tend to be weakened during the globalization process observed after 1980s in many developed economies.

American company unions; a study of employee representation plans, "works councils" and other substitutes for labor unions,

Cover-title: Company unions.

American labor unions and politics.

Bibliography: v.[1] p.333-345.

The Edge : organized crime, business, and labor unions : report to the President and the Attorney General : appendix /

Shipping list no.: 86-473-P.

The edge : organized crime, business, and labor unions :report to the President and the Attorney General /

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Black labor unions in South Africa : report of a symposium /

Mode of access: Internet.

Investigation of communist infiltration into labor unions which serve the industries of the United States, interim report. The United Electrical, Radio and Machine Workers of America, CIO.

Mode of access: Internet.

Coordination between the Departments of Labor and Justice in investigating criminal activities of labor unions and employee pension and welfare benefit funds.

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Directory of national and international labor unions in the United States.

Mode of access: Internet.

Directory of labor unions in the United States /

Mode of access: Internet.

Multilevel model of trade union membership

Presents a new theory of why people join or leave trade unions. Shows that a major influence on this decision is the quality of social relationships in the workplace. In particular, workplaces with a workforce of diverse occupational groups are not conducive to trade unionism.

Building a union of textile workers; report of two years progress to the convention of the United Textile Workers of America and the Textile Workers Organizing Committee, affiliated with the Congress of Industrial Organizations, Philadelphia, Pa., May 15-19, 1939.

Mode of access: Internet.

Overcoming Barriers to People of Color in Union Leadership

[Excerpt] It has been 10 years since the report on full participation. In preparation for the 2005 AFL-CIO Convention, the AFL-CIO, under the direction of the Executive Council’s Civil and Human Rights Committee, initiated a study to consider what other steps can be taken to address the underrepresentation of people of color in union leadership. It is hoped that this report will serve as a complement to a similar report on working women that was submitted to the Executive Council by the Executive Council’s Working Women’s Committee in March 2004, entitled, “Overcoming Barriers to Women in Organizing and Leadership.”