TY  - CHAP
AB  - This chapter considers the provocative yet unexplored idea that a relationship exists between the nature by which a union wins recognition from an employer and the collective bargaining outcomes that are produced. Since at least the Ronald Reagan Administration, many trade, service and industrial unions in the United States have deployed alterative means to win recognition. Unions have negotiated a host of neutrality and card-check agreements as alternatives to petitioning for elections under the auspices of the National Labor Relations Board. The use of these diverse organizing mechanisms has been well documented by numerous authors writing in the “union revitalization” genre, but what has not been done is the evaluation of the bargaining outcomes – effects – of different organizing tactics. The critical questions that have not been answered until now are, “What difference does it make how a union wins recognition?” Are the fortunes of newly organized union workers influenced by the way that they are brought into the labor movement? Based on a ten-year review of several successful union organizing cases, the findings from this chapter suggest that the key variable in gaining certification and ultimately a first contract is the ability of the union to leverage power and to do so in a timely manner.
VL  - 14
SN  - 978-0-76231-265-8, 978-1-84950-382-2/0742-6186
DO  - 10.1016/S0742-6186(05)14004-9
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1016/S0742-6186(05)14004-9
AU  - Jordan Lisa
AU  - Bruno Robert
ED  - David Lewin
ED  - Bruce E. Kaufman
PY  - 2005
Y1  - 2005/01/01
TI  - Do the Organizing Means Determine the Bargaining Ends?
T2  - Advances in Industrial & Labor Relations
T3  - Advances in Industrial & Labor Relations
PB  - Emerald Group Publishing Limited
SP  - 101
EP  - 125
Y2  - 2024/04/18
ER  -