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Imagining U.S. Labor Relations without Union Security

Author: Ann C. Hodges

Published in: Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal | Issue 2/2016

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Attacks on union finances are intensifying. These assaults, which come in various forms, have the potential to jeopardize the current systems of labor relations in the United States in both private and public sectors. This essay analyzes what might happen if the challenges are successful. Unions may shrink further in size or power, or alternatively, respond to new conditions in ways that strengthen them. Removal of union security might prompt legal change such as elimination of the duty of fair representation, elimination of the system of exclusive representation, or permitting the union to charge nonmembers for actual representation. These changes, if they occur, will be disruptive although they might result in a system more suited to today’s workplace. Regardless of the immediate outcome, it seems certain that labor-management conflict will not be eliminated, though it may be diverted for a time or changed in form.

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Title: Imagining U.S. Labor Relations without Union Security
Author: Ann C. Hodges
Publication date: 01-06-2016
Publisher: Springer US
Published in: Employee Responsibilities and Rights Journal / Issue 2/2016
Print ISSN: 0892-7545
Electronic ISSN: 1573-3378
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10672-016-9276-y

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