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| Author: | Clark, P. F. |
| Title: | Organizing the organizers: professional staff unionism in the American labor movement. |
| Journal: | Industrial and Labor Relations Review
1989 : VOL. 42:4, p. 584-599 |
| Index terms: | TRADE UNIONS PROFESSIONS USA PROFESSIONAL ORGANIZATIONS |
| Language: | eng |
| Abstract: | The current state of staff unionism in the American labour movement is examined , focusing specifically on the unionization of professional and technical employees of national and international unions based in the United States. The results of a 1987-88 survey of officers of 40 such professional staff unions are presented. These special unions, which date to the early 1950s, resemble conventional unions in the bargaining issues that are more important to them (job security and salaries), as well as in their relationships with management. They differ sharply, however, in their infrequent use of strikes. This type of unionism is most common in large, industrial unions, and virtually nonexistent in the building trades. |
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