NCJ Number
101078
Editor(s)
H Kershen
Date Published
1983
Length
255 pages
Annotation
This volume examines issues related to unionization, collective bargaining, arbitration, and negotiation in public sector employment.
Abstract
Part 1 provides a typology of police collective bargaining, examines police supervisor collective bargaining representation as it relates to identification with management, considers management rights clauses in police contracts and pay parity between firefighters and police, and discusses impasse resolution preferences of firefighters and municipal negotiators. Part 2 deals with local labor negotiations and budgetary influences on bargaining in the mass transit industry. Part 3 discusses health insurance in the public sector and compares attitudes toward health insurance trends among unionized and nonunionized physicians. Part 4 considers issues in the unionization of the military. Aspects of employee relations in the Federal service are examined in Part 5, including employee unions, Government productivity improvement, and the impact of grievance and arbitration processes on Federal personnel policies and practices. Part 6 covers subcontracting in State and local government employment, nonassociation union security agreements, refusal to pay union dues, and the training of public-sector neutrals (factfinders, mediators, and arbitrators). Chapter references and discussion questions. For individual essays, see NCJ 101079-101082.