The American labor movement and employee ownership: objections to and uses of employee stock ownership plans

Article Abstract:

This paper analyzes the evolution of American unions' attitudes and policies concerning employee ownership that coincided with the rapid growth of employee stock-ownership plans during the 1980s. From an initial position of opposing employee ownership and viewing it as a threat, many major unions have come to accept, and in some cases to promote, stock ownership for their members. Among the factors driving this change of view have been economic necessity, evidence that many of the labor movement's traditional concerns about employee ownership are largely unfounded, and the growing realization among unions that employee ownership is a potentially useful strategic asset. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Labor organizations, Analysis, Economic aspects, Stocks, Employee ownership

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Profiles of union organizers from manufacturing and service unions

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This study uses data on 229 organizers from eight unions to assess differences in characteristics of organizers employed by manufacturing and service unions. The results suggest that a new breed of organizer is entering the labor movement through service unions - organizers who are younger, more highly educated, more socially mobile, and have less experience in the union movement than organizers from manufacturing unions. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Manufacturing industry, Manufacturing industries, Economic policy, Services industry workers, Service industries workers

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