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Drawing on a large survey of new members, this paper examines the reasons why people join unions and the methods of their recruitment. It shows that collective reasons remain central to union membership and that individual services are secondary in the recruitment process. While there is little ...
I do not know the numbers yet, but I would guess that it would be cheaper to join the union. Why else would they do it. Union membership is down, this is one way to fix it. I have always wanted a nice cushy union job. Yet my job is not cushy. I stopped wearing a watch long...
threatened to do away with Romanian constitutionalism and, since autumn 2015, has also been underway in Poland. If, in the wake of the economic and the refugee crises, in which Hungary has taken sides with the other eastern central European member states, the European Union is unable to force...
I’ve lived my whole life in an imperial power. Once, in the wake of the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991, it was even “the lone superpower,” the last great power on planet Earth, or so its leaders believed. I then watched how, in a world without great-power dangers, it co...
UNION GROWTH AND DECLINE Union membership in the United States has varied considerably throughout the country's history. Although unions have been in existence in some form in the United States for nearly 200 years, they did not attain any meaningful level of power and influence until the 1930...
This paper commences with a survey of international trends in union membership, union density and collective bargaining, while focusing on the comparative position of trade unions in Germany. The author considers three hypotheses concerning the development of unionism in recent decades. The first one ...
The European Union and Japan signed a landmark deal on Tuesday that will eliminate nearly all tariffs on products they trade. The ambitious pact covers a third of the global economy and markets of more than 600 million people. European Council President Donald Tusk praised the deal as “the ...
“have confined millions of the nation’s Negro citizens to lives of squalor, misery, and privation.” Antitrust actions taken by the American Civil Liberties Union, the NAACP Legal Defense and Educational Fund, and other organizations helped force desegregation of neighborhoods and realty boards ...
The website Atheism and the City wrote about the 2018 cancellation of the first major atheist conference to be held in New York City: “ But none of this is going to happen now because the event has just been canceled. The reasons why are complicated, but it started out difficult enough...