This paper provides an economic foundation for non-binding mediation to stimulate first collective bargaining … agreements, as implemented in British Columbia since 1993. We show that the outcome of first-contract mediation is Pareto … profits under mediation coincide with the Owen values of the corresponding cooperative game with the coalitional structure …

fifth of employees are still members of a trade union. Union density has declined substantially over the last decades … bargaining coverage and union density have prompted a controversial discussion of how to stabilise the German system of …

Union membership has declined 24.2 percent since 1945. Declining union membership leads to economic losses for labor … unions. The problem is relevant to scholars and the labor movement, requiring a deeper understanding of union membership … decline. In this qualitative study, experiences with declining union membership are explored with union representatives in Los …

as a finite sequence of sessions between a firm and a union of variable size. We investigate the impact of such a … 'gradual' union on the wage-employment contract in an economy with concave production. In a static framework, the resulting …