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Labor Law's Impact On The Post-Dobbs Workplace, Jeffrey M. Hirsch

Employee Rights and Employment Policy Journal

The Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision has left many workers, especially in states with restrictive abortion-related laws, in a precarious position. Labor laws and unions, however, provide one avenue for providing these workers with more protections. Unions can demand bargaining to protect or expand health care, leave, and other terms of employment that give workers with means to obtain abortion-related care. Unions can also provide members legal defense and other support if they face prosecutions. Additionally, both union and non-union workers who make up the vast majority of workers in states with restrictive laws may have labor law protection for discussing …

Collective Bargaining And Digitalization: A Global Survey Of Union Use Of Collective Bargaining To Increase Worker Control Over Digitalization, Eckhard Voss, Daniel Bertossa

New England Journal of Public Policy

This article outlines and collates exemplary clauses from collective bargaining agreements and similar sources, such as guidelines for union negotiators on digitalization in public and private services. Based on the evaluation of agreements and single clauses and their mapping along seven key dimensions of workers’ rights and protection as regards digital technology in the workplace, the research shows that collective bargaining provides clear added value in the absence of legal provisions and by complementing and tailoring existing regulation to sectoral and workplace specificities, new emerging risks, and other challenges. The research that will feed into an online database on the …

Generational Differences In Attitudes About Unions: A Segmented Dispositional Marketing Approach, Vickie Coleman Gallagher, Jack Firorito

Southern Business Review

Vickie Coleman Gallagher, is a Ph.D. student at Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306.

Jack Firorito, Ph.D., is the J. Frank Dame Professor of Management, College of Business, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306.

Recipient, Best Paper Award, 26th Annual Southern Industrial Relations and Human Resource Conference (SIRHRC), Savannah, GA 31401.

Bargaining For Adjuncts: An Assessment Of Adjunct Union Growth In The Saint Louis Region, Jameson Ramirez

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

Minimum-wage labor is no longer confined to sectors once associated with low-skill occupations. In college classrooms across the United States, we are witness to the rise of a “gig-economy” among faculty positions where highly skilled work is being completed by part-time workers known commonly as adjuncts. Despite performing highly-skilled work, adjuncts are compensated at the levels of low-skilled workers. Lack of access to benefits, capricious contract agreements, and a general sense of feeling dispensable are common themes to the adjunct experience. The aim of this paper is to address the concerns of adjuncts and suggest some workable solutions to their …

A Study Of The Hierarchical Culture Gaps Within Unionized Utilities Companies, Levi R. G. Nieminen, Benjamin Biermeier-Hanson, Adam Roebuck, Daniel R. Denison

Organization Management Journal

The purpose of this study was to measure the culture gaps between hierarchical subgroups within unionized utilities companies. We conducted a mixed methods study. Using archival survey data, we compared hierarchically-defined subgroups’ perceptions of performance-linked culture traits within five unionized utilities companies. We later conducted interviews and focus groups, followed by qualitative coding and analysis. As compared to non-union employees, union employees viewed their companies as substantially less involving, consistent, adaptable, and clear about purpose and direction. Our qualitative analysis highlighted two prior management decisions as illustrative of the contrast between high and low levels of union involvement and clarity. …

Unionization And The Development Of Policies For Non-Tenure Track Faculty: A Comparative Study Of Research Universities, Karen Halverson Cross

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

This paper examines how policies at several research universities support and professionalize their full-time, non-tenure track (NTT) instructional faculty, and considers the influence of NTT faculty unions on policy development at these institutions. Faculty handbooks, collective bargaining agreements (CBAs), and other policy documents at a few institutions with and without CBAs were analyzed for the presence of institutional, NTT faculty-supportive policies. One unionized and one non-unionized institution were selected as sites for interviews with faculty and administrators. The paper finds CBAs to be a significant source of NTT faculty-supportive policies, and the union to provide important procedural safeguards against arbitrary …

Panel Handout: Microaggressions And Implicit Bias On Campus - Microaggression Theory: A Selected Bibliography 2016, Barbara Diamond

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Panel Handout: Microaggressions And Implicit Bias On Campus - Implicit Bias: A Selected Biography 2016, Barbara Diamond

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Workshop: Microaggressionsand Implicit Bias On Campus - Microaggressions And Disability, Barbara Diamond

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Panel: Dual Credit And Enrollment Issues At Community Colleges - A Case Study: Erie Community College, Kristin Klein Wheaton

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Panel: Dual Credit And Enrollment Issues At Community Colleges, Alec Thomson

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Panel Handout: Best Practices In Arbitration Of Higher Education Issues, Rosemary Townley

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Panel Handout: Year In Higher Education, Jerry Cutler

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Panel Handout: Pensions And Health Insurance Savings For Contingent Faculty, William Shimer

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Panel Handout: Collective Bargaining Issues Concerning Post-Doctorates - Rutgers And Aaup Post-Doc Cba

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Panel Handout: Collective Bargaining Issues Concerning Post-Doctorates - The Postdoctoral Experience Revisited

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Panel: Collective Bargaining Issues Concerning Post-Doctorates - Breaking The Silence: The Unionization Of Post-Doctorate Workers At The University Of California, Sayil Camacho, Robert Rhoads

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Panel: Collective Bargaining Issues Concerning Post-Doctorates, Karen Rosenberg

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Panel: Collective Bargaining Issues Concerning Post-Doctorates, Sayil Camacho, Jerome Kukor, Amy Lee, Karen Rosenberg

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Annual Legal Update (2016), Aaron Nisenson

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Workshop: Best Practices In Labor-Management Committees In Higher Education, Sally Klingel

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Panel: Transforming The Collective Bargaining Process At Florida Gulf Coast University, Elizabeth Elliott

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Panel Handout: Discrimination And Harassment Issues In Higher Education, Jason Walta

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Panel: Discrimination And Harassment Issues In Higher Education, Jill Rosenberg

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Panel: Discrimination And Harassment Issues In Higher Education - Recent Tenure Discrimination Federal Court Decisions, Merrick Rossein

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Panel: Discrimination And Harassment Issues In Higher Education - Law And Litigation, Merrick Rossein

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Panel Handout: The Impact Of Faculty Unit Composition On Collective Bargaining, Robin Sowards

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Panel Handout: Collective Bargaining At Academic Medical Centers - Cba University Of Medicine And Dentistry In Nj And Njea

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Panel Handout: Collective Bargaining At Academic Medical Centers - University Of Connecticut Health Center

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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Panel: State Of Public Pensions And Its Impact On Collective Bargaining, Elliot Susseles

Journal of Collective Bargaining in the Academy

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