What Do NLRB Cases Reveal about Non-Union Employee Representation Groups? A Typology from Post–Electromation Cases

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Abstract

Since the late 1800s, unions and employers have competed with each other to offer representation groups to employees. In general, these groups have aimed to provide a voice to workers in aspects of their employment. These groups have widely differed, however. Employers have formed some representation groups with progressive aims: to empower individuals to manage their work, to share information about improving a work process, and more broadly, to feel a sense of ownership in the fi rm. Other groups have extended compensation beyond wages by seeking employee input in designing benefi ts-for example, a pension plan in the 1920s or child care at work in the 1990s. Other employers have formed groups to mimic a union’s functions, believing that a company union is better able than an independent union to voice the interests of employees.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationVoice and Involvement at Work
Subtitle of host publicationExperience with Non-Union Representation
EditorsPaul J Gollan, Bruce E Kaufman, Daphne Taras, Adrian Wilkinson
PublisherRoutledge
Pages366-393
Number of pages28
ISBN (Electronic)9780203110638
ISBN (Print)9780415537216, 9781138340947
DOIs
StatePublished - Sep 3 2014

Publication series

NameRoutledge Research in Employment Relations

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Economics, Econometrics and Finance(all)
  • General Business, Management and Accounting

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