Freedom of Association is the bedrock of the workers’ right to form trade unions, join them freely, and it also guarantees that these organizations will be able to function without interference from public authorities. In 1972, Bangladesh ratified the ILO Convention concerning Freedom of...

This article analyses the capacity of global non-state networks of civil society actors to effectively supplement weak state regulation in reducing human rights abuse by multi-national companies (MNCs). The effectiveness of NGOs used as part of a network of control finds support both in the...

This article investigates first contract arbitration's (FCA) capacity to foster bargaining relationships and deter misconduct by analyzing its effect on decertifications. Using time‐series cross‐sectional (TSCS) analysis with data from nine Canadian provinces over a four‐decade period, it...

This strike in a Chinese factory of the Japanese multinational Honda in 2010 received worldwide coverage. A young workforce sustained an on–off strike, with varying numbers of workers involved, for 19 days. Academic interest has focused on prospects for collective bargaining and union reform...

In what follows, I will set out my formulation of the criteria for voluntary exchange in any market, including the labor market, and consider what these criteria imply for strikes and “yellow-dog” (union-free) contracts. Next, I will show how the NLA and the NLRA violate those criteria. Then...

Do core doctrines of labor-relations law obstruct the internal democratic governance of labor unions in the United States? Union democracy is likely an essential precondition for the broader strategic and organizational changes unions must undertake in order to recruit new union members — the...

Der vorliegende Beitrag analysiert das Aufkommen von Spartengewerkschaften und der damit einhergehenden Tarifpluralität und erörtert wirtschaftspolitische Handlungsoptionen. Wenngleich die Tarifpluralität für die betroffenen Unternehmen nicht unproblematisch ist, ist eine gesetzliche...

This article examines the state of the law relating to trade union rights to negotiate on behalf of members employed in Irish firms where the employer refuses to recognise the union(s) in question. The article examines the operation of the Industrial Relations Amendment Acts 2001-2004, which...

Trade union rights have a considerably long history in Russia. First trade unions were organized as early as in the XIX century, but it was not earlier than 1906, when the first legislative steps in regard to trade union recognition were made. In the legislation there was a particular procedure...

Legal procedure in the Pacific canneries -- Contesting contracts in northern California -- The responsive wartime state -- The seafarer strikes and the postwar progressive victory -- Politics, procedure, and Paul Herzog -- Blacklists and strikes -- The blacklist wins -- The cold war in the...

Should a state adopt a Right to Work law? This question has been and continues to be hotly contested. In brief, Right to Work laws prohibit unions from including certain types of union security clauses in their contracts with companies that effectively force the company to make their employees...

The paper uses a gravity trade model to evaluate the effects of trade union rights and democracy on exports for the 1993 to 1999 period for four classifications of manufacturing industries by labor-intensity. The model includes data for 162 countries and used eight indicators of trade union...

The paper uses a bilateral trade gravity model to evaluate the effects of freedom of association and collective bargaining (FACB) rights and democracy on exports, evaluating exports by labour intensity (using several classifications of industries by labour-intensity) for the 1993 to 1999 period....

Die arbeitsgerichtliche Rechtsprechung der jüngeren Vergangenheit hat die Voraussetzung für mehr Tarifpluralität geschaffen. Im Zuge aktueller Tarifkonfl ikte im Luftverkehr wird die Macht von Spartengewerkschaften stark kritisiert. Für eine gesetzliche Einhegung der Tarifpluralität...

I argue that union democracy regulation is misguided for a number of reasons. First, the regulations do not do a good of reducing agency costs of union leadership because internal union elections are not salient to most union members who rationally do not make the investments in time and...

Diese Studie liefert erstmals eine interdisziplinäre Analyse der vielschichtigen Wechselbeziehungen, welche die Dynamik gegenseitiger Beziehungen zwischen Staat, Gewerkschaften und Arbeitgebern ausmachen und das aktuelle polnische Arbeitsrecht prägen. Zum einen werden die aktuellen...