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Browsing The Worker Institute by Title
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Serving the Public Interest: Preventing Double-Breasting in the Construction Industry
(2007-10-17)Excerpt] But the immediate question I am addressing is how the practice of double-breasting undermines the stability of collective bargaining in the construction industry. The simple answer is that it is not exceedingly ... -
Silver Screen Tarnishes Unions
(1981-07-01)[Excerpt] Organizing a film festival of pro-labor Hollywood films would be rather difficult. When unions do appear, they are often part of the subplot or the background for the main story line. -
Social Partnership in Germany: Lessons for U.S. Labor and Management
(1993-01-01)German industrial relations in the postwar period have made a major contribution to German industrial success. The German system is rooted in the explicit recognition of well organized interests: strong, assertive employers ... -
Social Partnership: An Organizing Concept for Industrial Relations Reform
(1994-06-01)[Excerpt] In this era of globalization and intensified world market competition, once stable relationships involving firms, unions and government have come under pressure everywhere. Here in the United States, a crisis of ... -
Standing at a Crossroads: The Building Trades in the Twenty-First Century
(2005-09-01)American building trades unions have historically played a critical and stabilizing role in the nation’s construction industry, establishing uniform standards and leveling the competitive playing field. Union members have ... -
State of the Artist: Challenges to the New York State Arts & Entertainment Industry and its Workforce
(2017-06-01)[Excerpt] In 2009, with support from Empire State Development (ESD), the Cornell University ILR School published its first report on the state of the New York arts and entertainment (A&E) workforce, Empire State’s Cultural ... -
Steward Training in the Construction Industry: The United Brotherhood of Carpenters and Joiners of America Faces the Challenge
(1993-01-01)[Excerpt] This article examines the development and delivery of the Carpenters union national construction steward training program. It describes the collaboration of the union and Cornell University in the design of the ... -
Stopping Sexual Harassment in the Empire State: Past, Present, and a Possible Future
(2019-01-01)This report maps current patterns of workplace sexual harassment and their impact in New York State. It also provides a broader frame for understanding how efforts to confront sexual and gender-based harassment and assault ... -
Strategic Grievance Handling
(2004-01-01)[Excerpt] Imagine a doctor who tells every patient to take aspirin no matter what the aliment, or a carpenter whose only tool is a hammer. No, this isn't an article about HMO's or an ad for tools. It's about thinking ... -
Sweeping Change: Building Survivor and Worker Leadership to Confront Sexual Harassment in the Janitorial Industry
(2020-01-01)This report documents experiences of workplace sexual harassment in the California janitorial industry, as well as the conditions that hinder reporting and impose silence. It also examines a survivor- and worker-led peer ... -
Talking vs. Communicating
(2006-07-01)[Excerpt] There is a saying, "When all is said and done, more is said than done." Stewards who attend union meetings to decide how to handle and issue or grievance sessions with management probably agree. Why is it so ... -
Tax and Policy Implications of Changes to Reporting Requirements for Construction Services
(2013-12-01)[Excerpt] New York and other states could increase revenue and improve their tax systems by requiring information reporting for all payments by businesses for construction services, utilizing a form similar to the Federal ... -
The Clear Picture on Clear Channel Communications, Inc.: A Corporate Profile
(2004-01-28)[Excerpt] This research was commissioned by the American Federation of Labor-Congress of Industrial Organizations (AFL-CIO) with the expressed purpose of assisting the organization and its affiliate unions – which represent ... -
The Contribution of the Latinx Immigrant Workforce to Staten Island’s Economy Before and During the Pandemic
(2020-09-01)[Excerpt] New York City workers and communities have been weathering the impacts of a public health and economic crisis of unprecedented magnitude in U.S. history of the last 100 years. This report focuses on the experience ... -
The Cost of Worker Misclassification in New York State
(2007-02-01)[Excerpt] This study uses data based on audits performed by the NYS Department of Labor Unemployment Insurance Division during the four-year period 2002-2005. Audits were performed on firms in certain industries, and data ... -
The East in Open Conflict: The Great Strike of 1993
(1998-01-01)[Excerpt] Because it is impossible in one book to examine all German institutions of negotiation, this book focuses on one important set of relations at the heart of social market regulation: the "social partnership" between ... -
The Empirical Case for Streamlining the NLRB Certification Process: The Role of Date of Unfair Labor Practice Occurrence
(2011-06-01)[Excerpt] One of the long held performance objectives of the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) has been to reduce the time period between the filing of the petition and union certification elections. This year the ... -
The Europeanization of Labour: Structure Before Action
(1996-01-01)At national level, the development of effective labour movements has involved the interaction of two processes: the establishment of formal organizational structures, and the rise of rank-and-file pressure and protest. At ... -
The Industry and the Unions: An Overview
(1996-01-01)[Excerpt] This overview chapter provides a framework for the chapters that follow by broadly describing the arts, entertainment, and electronic media (AEEM) industry and the problems confronting it. The overview is presented ... -
The Negotiations Process and Structures
(2015-01-01)[Excerpt] This chapter examines the process by which unions and employers negotiate collective agreements and the structures they use for those negotiations, continuing the analysis of the middle (functional) level of labor ...
