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Description

1. xvi, 319 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

1. Labor unions in the 1990s face tremendous challenges on all fronts. Intensive international and domestic competition, industrial deregulation, and slow economic growth have weakened their collective bargaining position. Organizing new members and retaining existing ones have been made difficult by the changing expectations of workers and the limitations of current labor laws. Together, these forces have led to declining membership and influence.
2. These difficult circumstances, however, do not signal the end of unionism, or mandate a universal response from all unions. Instead, they herald an era of choices. David Weil presents a pathbreaking framework to guide union leaders in these complex times.
3. Drawing on the ideas of strategic planning developed in the private sector, Weil provides labor leaders with the tools to assess the critical features of their environment, and to design and implement economically sustainable collective bargaining agreements, organizing drives, and other innovative programs.
4. Weil explains the impact of economic, technologic, governmental, and labor market forces on union strategy. He details the obstacles to new initiatives and offers methods to overcome them, from adapting the union's organizational structure to redirecting its internal financial resources.
5. Based on his work with national, regional, and local unions as well as his academic expertise in labor relations and economics, Weil presents a rich combination of practical experience, academic evidence, and illustrative case studies from the construction, manufacturing, service and public sectors. He demonstrates how unions have succeeded by creating economically sustainable collective bargaining agreements and organizing initiatives.
6. In Turning the Tide, labor leaders and scholars of industrial relations will find exciting new approaches to strengthen unions and labor-management relations for the next decade.

Series statement

1. Emerging issues in employee relations

Uniform title

1. Emerging issues in employee relations

Subject

1. Labor unions > United States
2. Industrial relations > United States
3. Collective bargaining > United States
4. Labor movement > United States
5. Strategic planning > United States
6. Collective bargaining
7. Industrial relations
8. Labor movement
9. Labor unions
10. Strategic planning
11. trade union
12. corporate planning
13. evaluation
14. trade union attitude
15. competitiveness
16. technological change
17. state intervention
18. labour market
19. collective bargaining
20. personnel management
21. resource allocation
22. budgeting
23. trade union structure
24. trade union power
25. future
26. case study
27. statistical table
28. Collective bargaining > United States
29. Industrial relations > United States
30. Labor movement > United States
31. Labor unions > United States
32. Strategic planning > United States
33. syndicat
34. planification d'entreprise
35. évaluation
36. attitude syndicale
37. compétitivité
38. changement technologique
39. intervention de l'Etat
40. marché du travail
41. négociation collective
42. gestion du personnel
43. allocation des ressources
44. établissement du budget
45. structure syndicale
46. pouvoir syndical
47. futur
48. étude de cas
49. tableau statistique
50. sindicato
51. planificación corporativa
52. evaluación
53. actitud sindical
54. competitividad
55. cambio tecnológico
56. intervención estatal
57. mercado de trabajo
58. negociación colectiva
59. administración de personal
60. asignación de recursos
61. elaboración del presupuesto
62. estructura sindical
63. poder sindical
64. futuro
65. estudio de casos
66. cuadros estadísticos
67. United States
68. USA
69. Etats-Unis
70. Estados Unidos

Genre/Form

1. guide.
2. graph.
3. reference.
4. graphique.
5. référence bibliographique.
6. guía.
7. gráfico.
8. referencia.

Contents

1. pt. I. Introduction. 1. Strategic Choices for Labor Unions -- pt. II. Strategy Formulation. 2. Analyzing the Product Market. 3. Analyzing Technological Pressures. 4. Analyzing Governmental/Regulatory Pressures. 5. Analyzing the Labor Market/Assessing Membership Priorities. 6. Strategy Formulation: Putting the Pieces Together -- pt. III. Strategy Implementation and Evaluation. 7. Strategic Issues in Finance and Resource Allocation. 8. The Strategic Implications of Union Structure, Part 1. 9. The Strategic Implications of Union Structure, Part 2: Further Applications. 10. Evaluating Strategic Plans -- pt. IV. Conclusions. 11. Strategic Planning and the Future of Labor Unions.

Owning institution

1. Princeton University Library

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-301) and index.