Academic

Atiram on Collective Bargaining & Collective Action
Barak Atiram (Tel Aviv University) has posted Freeloaders and Blind Riders: Collective Bargaining & the Challenge of Conscious Collaboration on SSRN. Here is the abstract: When the products of collective actions, organized by government agencies or private players, are non-excludable,...

Collective Bargaining for States But Not for Uncle Sam
(Jonathan H. Adler) Public employees in many states have far greater collective bargaining rights than do federal workers. As I understand it, federal government employee unions can only bargain collectively over a small range of issues...

Public Sector Union Sues For Breach of Collective Bargaining Agreement
A little know fact is that unions can sue for breach of contract (the collective bargaining agreement) if the collective bargaining agreement does not contain final and binding arbitration...

MOU Found Not To Be A Collective Bargaining Contract
Coca-Cola Enterprises, 352 NLRB No. 123 (Aug. 14, 2008), is an interesting decision. As this case demonstrates, it is important to know whether a MOU is intended to be a collective bargaining agreement...

Collective Bargaining Is a Property Rights Issue
There's an interesting thread over at the Faculty Lounge about the Wisconsin brouhaha, in which Professor Calvin Massey opines that collective bargaining by public employee unions should be illegal...

More on Collective Bargaining and Student Performance
(Jonathan H. Adler) In a prior post I pointed out that the oft-repeated claim that the five states that do not allow public school teachers to engage in collective bargaining have the lowest SAT and ACT scores in the country is false...

Westinghouse
alleging that former Westinghouse employees are being deprived of a choice in health care prescription plan benefits that were formerly available to them through union bargaining.