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Lasting Victories: Successful Union Strategies For Winning First Contracts, Kate Bronfenbrenner
Lasting Victories: Successful Union Strategies For Winning First Contracts, Kate Bronfenbrenner
Kate Bronfenbrenner
[Excerpt] These studies leave no doubt that employers have at their disposal a myriad of legal and illegal tactics which they can use to effectively block union efforts at winning a first agreement. The critical question to be answered is whether the same kind of grassroots, rank-and-file intensive union-building strategies that have been found to be so effective in certification and decertification elections are equally effective in overcoming employer opposition in first contract campaigns.
Successful Union Strategies For Winning Certification Elections And First Contracts: Report To Union Participants (Part 1: Organizing Survey Results), Kate Bronfenbrenner
Successful Union Strategies For Winning Certification Elections And First Contracts: Report To Union Participants (Part 1: Organizing Survey Results), Kate Bronfenbrenner
Kate Bronfenbrenner
Summary of results from 1986-1988 survey of 261 lead organizers conducted by Kate Bronfenbrenner in cooperation with the Organizing Department of the AFL-CIO.
Successful Union Strategies For Winning Certification Elections And First Contracts: Report To Union Participants (Part 2: First Contract Survey Results), Kate Bronfenbrenner
Successful Union Strategies For Winning Certification Elections And First Contracts: Report To Union Participants (Part 2: First Contract Survey Results), Kate Bronfenbrenner
Kate Bronfenbrenner
Summary of results from 1986-1988 survey of 100 chief negotiators conducted by Kate Bronfenbrenner in cooperation with the Organizing Department of the AFL-CIO.
Union Tactics Matter: The Impact Of Union Tactics On Certification Elections, First Contracts And Membership Rates, Kate Bronfenbrenner, Tom Juravich
Union Tactics Matter: The Impact Of Union Tactics On Certification Elections, First Contracts And Membership Rates, Kate Bronfenbrenner, Tom Juravich
Kate Bronfenbrenner
[Excerpt] This study examines the impact of union tactics on certification election win rates, first contracts and post-contract membership rates in the public sector. Based on an in-depth survey of union organizers in a national sample of public sector certification election campaigns the findings suggest that a grassroots, rank-and-file intensive strategy, building a union and acting like a union from the very beginning of the campaign are critical components of union organizing success. By comparing these findings with Bronfenbrenner's earlier study of private sector union campaigns (1993) we found that not only are these strategies important to the union's ability …