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Government-workers unions have been political juggernauts in the U.S. since the unseen collective-bargaining-rights revolution of the 1960s and '70s. These unions are different and more powerful than those that battle owners and managers in the private sector. To advance their interests, unions in the public sector have created cartels with their political allies, mostly in the Democratic Party, to the exclusion of the taxpaying public. In this Broadside,...

Everyone wants to reform public education in America. But few realize that the principal obstruction to all reform is a pair of powerful and well-entrenched organizations: the National Education Association (NEA) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT). The NEA and AFT enroll over three million members. Their local, state, and national revenues exceed $1 billion annually, not counting their PACs, foundations, and wholly owned or controlled...

"Since publication of the fourth edition of Labor Relations in the Public Sector, public sector unions have encountered strong headwinds in many parts of the U.S. Membership is falling in some jurisdictions, public opinion has shifted against the unions, and political forces are leaning against them. Retaining the structure that made the previous editions so popular, this fifth edition incorporates a complete round of updates, particularly sections...

"When Wisconsin became the first state in the nation in 1959 to let public employees bargain with their employers, the legislation catalyzed changes to labor laws across the country. In March 2011, when newly elected governor Scott Walker repealed most of that labor law and subsequent ones and then became the first governor in the nation to survive a recall election fifteen months later it sent a different message. Both times, Wisconsin took the lead,...

This film examines industrial change in North America and provides an unprecedented inside look at contract negotiations between General Motors and the United Auto Workers in Toronto in 1984. Believing U.S. counterparts have been cheated by a profit-sharing agreement, Canadian UAW director Bob White fights to keep traditional wage increases-taking on GM Chairman Roger White and UAW President Owen Bieber at once. What begins as a routine meeting turns...

Study of collective bargaining in the sports industry in the USA - discusses how professional athletes' trade unions bargained or went on strike for wage increases, old age benefit, more advantageous labour contracts, etc.; describes trade union attitudes to drug testing and penal sanctions for violence; discusses these in relation to baseball, football, basketball and hockey. References, statistical tables.