Labor/management Relations Among Government Employees: Public Sector Contemporary Issues

Preface -- PART I AN OVERVIEW -- 1. One More Time: What Is Collective Bargaining in the Public Sector All About?/Craig E. Overton and Max S. Wortman, Jr -- 2. A Model of the Public Sector Wage Determination Process—With Special Reference to Institutional Factors/Beth Walter Honadle -- 3. Collective Bargaining by State Workers: Legislatures Have the Final Voice in the Appropriation of Funds/Jan W. Hen kel and Norman J. Wood -- 4. Productivity and Job Security: The Issues of the 1980’s in U.S. Public Sector Labor Relations/George T. Sulzner -- PART II MUNICIPAL EMPLOYEES -- 5. Public Employee Unions—The Political Imperative/Michael Marmo -- 6. How to Deal with a Strike as an Elected Official/Mary W. Henderson -- 7. Can Public Pension Plans Survive under PERISA?/Joseph W Wilson -- 8. The Impact of Compulsory Arbitration on Municipal Budgets— The Case of Omaha, Nebraska/Donald E. Purse!! and William D. Torrence -- PART III STATE EMPLOYEES -- 9. Centralization or Decentralization of Bargaining among State Government Employees: An Examination of the Options/Mark A. Haskell -- 10. Multi-Employer Bargaining in the Public Sector in Hawaii/Jack E. Klauser -- 11. An Empirical Investigation of Compi-ehension of the Right-to-Work Law among Residents of the State of Virginia/Marc G. Singer, Harold L. Durrett0 Kenneth C. Williamson and Kathy L. Shannon -- 12. The Impact of Proposition 13 on Public Employee Relations: The Case of Los Angeles/Gene Swimmer -- 13. Proposition 2: The Massachusetts Tax Revolt and Its Impact on Public Sector Labor Relations/Gary D. Altman -- PART IV FEDERAL EMPLOYEES -- 14. Bargaining Structure in the Public Sector: The TVA “Model”/Michael L. Brookshire -- 15. Why Federal Government Employees Join Unions: A Study of AFGE Local 1138/Louis V.lmundo,Jr -- 16. The Impact of Labor-Management Cooperation Committees on Personnel Policies and Practices at Twenty Federal Bargaining Units/George T. Sulzrter -- PART V PROPOSED NATIONAL LEGISLATION -- 17. Impact of Proposed Federal Public Employee Bargaining on State Legislation/Myron Lieberman -- 18. The Need for Urgency in Federal Sector Bargaining/Ronald W. Haughton.

Includes articles which offer a mix of theoretical analysis, case history and empirical research, interspersed with good, practical advice from those who have sat long hours at the bargaining table.