Information, disinformation, and union success in certification and decertification elections

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In certification elections, workers considers the purchase of union services whose quality is, ex ante, unobservable. Voters must rely on available signals or indices in forming their expectations. Union members are able to reevaluate their initial purchase decision as more accurate information is obtained through experience. Therefore, participants in decertification elections rely less on sources of imperfect information. Using NLRB data over the period 1966 to 1990, we find evidence consistent with information-related distinctions between the certification and decertification decisions. Our study provides a useful framework for understanding the observed differences between these two types of elections. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Labor organizations, Labor Unions, Labor Unions and Similar Labor Organizations, Decision-making, Decision making, Analysis, Social sciences, Labor union recognition, Information theory, Information theory in the social sciences

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An overview and assessment of the law regulating internal union affairs

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The history of US industrial democracy is presented, focusing on the establishment of laws regulating labor unions. The enactments of the 1947 Taft-Hartley Act and 1959 Landrum-Griffin Act, regulation of labor union elections, attempts to prevent union corruption, and unions' influence on local and federal politics are analyzed.

United States, Laws, regulations and rules, Human resource management, History, Ethical aspects, Participatory management, Company unions, Corruption, AFL-CIO

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