Unions in North America have had many problems organizing workers in the emerging private service sector. In this article, we explore the demand for collective representation in this sector as being a double probability of propensity to unionize and to be a member of a professional association....

Do industrial relations (IR) influence organizational performance? This remains a fundamental question in IR since it is a matter of credibility and “bread-and-butter” for both academics and practitioners. Economic literature has explored the union impact on organizational performance,...