1st Edition

Collective Bargaining by Government Workers The Public Employee

Edited By Harry Kershen Copyright 1983
    264 Pages
    by Routledge

    264 Pages
    by Routledge

    The chapters in this anthology deal with many of these all-encompassing constraints and how the various participants seek to deal with them. Model agreements, negotiating levers, the balance of power between managers and government employees, contracting-out versus producing in-house, the impact of bargaining unit structure on productivity, the relationship of municipal budget making to collective bargaining, public employee union growth and organizing trends, and many other topics are dealt with in this volume. These issues are discussed in the context of several specific types of public employees such as: municipal protection employees, mass transit workers, health professionals in relation to government service, and, the armed forces and civilian federal employees.

    Preface

    PART I MUNICIPAL PROTECTION EMPLOYEES: ORGANIZATIONS, NEGOTIATIONSAND IMPLICATIONS
    A Typology of Police Collective Bargaining Employee Organizations, Charles R. Swanson, Jr.
    Police Supervisor Collective Bargaining Representation and Identification with Management, Kent F. Murrmann
    Significant Management Rights Clauses in Municipal Police Contracts, Craig E. Overton and Max S. Wortman, Jr.
    Pay Parity Between Police and Fire Fighters, James C. Amar
    Impasse Resolution Preferences of Fire Fighters and Municipal Negotiators, Hoyt N. Wheeler and Frank Owen

    PART II COLLECTIVE BARGAINING IN THE MASS TRANSIT INDUSTRY
    Local Labor Negotiations and the Urban Mass Transit Industry, Alan Reed
    Budgetary Influences on Bargaining in Mass Transit, Kenneth M. Jennings, Jay A. Smith, Jr., and Earle C. Traynham, Jr.

    PART III NEGOTIATIONS AND HEALTH
    Health Insurance in the Public Sector, Richard S. Rubin
    Contemporary Perceptions of Unionization in the Medical Profession: A Study of Attitudes of Unionized and Non-Union Physicians, Jon A. Klover, David B. Stephens, and Vincent P. Luchsinger

    PART IV UNIONIZATION IN THE ARMED FORCES
    An Assessment of Unionization in the Armed Forces, Paul D. Staudohar
    Orientations toward Military Unions among Combat Troops, David R. Segal and Robert C. Kramer
    The Rejection of Military Unionization: Analysis of the AFGE Data, Jerald F. Robinson and James K. McCollum

    PART V EMPLOYEE RELATIONS IN THE FEDERAL SERVICE
    National Treasury Employees Union: Description of a Federal Employee Union, M.J. Fox, Jr. and Marvin Judah
    Productivity Improvement in Government: The Effects of Departmental vs. Occupational Bargaining Unit structures, Michael L. Moore
    The Impact of Grievance and Arbitration Processes on Federal Personnel Policies and Practices: The View from Twenty Bargaining Units, George T. Sulzner

    PART VI ISSUES THAT TRANSCEND OCCUPATIONAL LINES
    The Ability to Pay Criterion: Some Recent Evidence, Charles T. Weber
    Subcontracting in State and Local Government Employment, Paul D. Staudohar
    Employees Who Refuse to Pay Union Dues: First and Fourteenth Amendment Issues in Nonassociation Union Security Agreements, G.W. Cassidy
    Training Programs for Neutrals, Ralph S. Berger
    Studies in Mediation and the Training of Public Sector Mediators, David C. Haman, Arthur P. Brief, and Richard Pegnetter


    Biography

    Harry Kershen