Dispute resolution mechanisms and teacher bargaining outcomes

Article Abstract:

This study investigates the impact of dispute resolution mechanisms on the wages and hours of public school teachers. The 43-state analysis presents evidence that (1) a permissible right to strike increases teacher wages by 11.5 percent and reduces class hours by 37 minutes per day; (2) a de facto right to strike increases salaries by 5.7 percent and reduces class hours by 44 minutes per day; (3) arbitration availability is associated with a wage effect of 3.6 percent and 70 fewer class minutes per day; and (4) factfinding and voluntary arbitration have no significant influences on outcomes. A direct comparison of the right to strike and the right to arbitrate indicates that a legal right to strike affords teachers greater power to increase the dollar value of their work. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Labor organizations, Labor Unions and Similar Labor Organizations, Unions-Services, Research, Negotiation, mediation and arbitration, Teachers, Dispute resolution (Law), Service industries workers' unions

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The Effect of Collective Bargaining on Production Technique: A Theoretical Analysis

Article Abstract:

Placed in a general equilibrium framework, union wage gains can cause an effect on capital intensity in the economy's union or nonunion sector. A general equilibrium model is presented. The model serves to analyze the impact of collective bargaining on union and nonunion capital intensity. When the impact of capital intensity on union power is not accounted for, there is an understatement of unions' power to spread income from capital to labor. The model analyzes unions' impact on production technique choice by union and nonunion sectors. When capital intensity affected union power, there was a decline in the price of capital in relation to wages.

Production management

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A Bargaining Model and Empirical Analysis of Strike Activity Across Industries

Article Abstract:

This study is based on an earlier study done by Leigh in 1983. He reviews his earlier study. In this study, Leigh has a more elaborate model and tests this model using new data. A table of definitions is included. Leigh concludes with a description of workers most apt to strike. He also describes the type of industry most prone to strikes. This study not only supports conclusions from the earlier study, but introduces new findings.

Analysis, Study and teaching, Strikes

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