Union campaign activities and voter preferences

Article Abstract:

The impact of union campaign activities on individual voting choice in a union representation election in a multi-establishment organization - specifically, a faculty representation election in the California State University system - is investigated, using a panel study design. Two unions representing distinct ideologies engaged in activities at campus, systemwide, and state political levels for several years prior to the election in December 1981. A multivariate model, which included measures of expected impact of bargaining, campaign influences, personal circumstances, and other factors, was evaluated. Both self-reports and exogenous measures of campus-and union-specific campaign activity were analyzed; the use of exogenous measures in the analysis indicated that there was no appreciable impact of campaign activity on voting intentions regarding bargaining-no bargaining or the choice of unions. The policy implications of these findings are discussed.

Analysis, Political activity, Teachers' unions, Voting research

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Union influence on plant size

Article Abstract:

Much research has focused on the direct effect of unions on production efficiency given set technology and plant scale. However, another path through which unions may influence productivity has received virtually no attention: the indirect productivity effect that unions may exert on the firm's choice of plant size. We present a model in which firms explicitly consider the positive correlation between the probability of being unionized and plant scale in choosing plant scale and show that unions may prevent firms from fully exploiting economies of scale by their threat of organizing. Although it may be difficult to directly estimate this effect, there is ample casual empirical support that union status and plant scale are positively related. (Reprinted by permission of the published.)

Research, Design and construction, Factories, Plant layout

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Union leaders' willingness to negotiate concessions

Article Abstract:

Between 1979 and 1985, many labor organizations faced the difficult experience of concession bargaining. This field study examines the conditions under which local union leaders become willing to negotiate contract concessions. The findings indicate that conditions under which union leaders may agree to concessions fall into three categories: pressure, reduced union militancy, and legitimacy of the package of concessions. Sources of these conditions are the employer, the union, and the public. This paper argues that the joint effect of the three categories of conditions makes union leaders agree to concessions. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Interpretation and construction, Economic aspects, Contracts, Political aspects, Collective bargaining, Working class, Collective labor agreements

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