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Showing 1 to 9 of 9 for “"Public Sector Unions"”.
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Public sector unions and the privatization of municipal services
… transfer of government services to the private sector, or privatization as it is generally called, has received considerable attention in recent years. However, few attempts have been made to investigate the issue from a labor relations perspective. This dissertation attempts to alleviate this …
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Union Impact On Police Expenditures In Florida
The continued steady growth of public sector unions compels public administrators to understand the influence labor organizations exert upon local governments. The following study demonstrates the extent of union influence upon police expenditures in Florida. Union influence not only increases …
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Globalization, Labor Market Transformation, and Union Decline in U.S. Metropolitan Areas
… analyze the determinants of total, private, and public sector union density among 191 U.S. metropolitan statistical areas in the year 2000. In particular, I examine the effects of five measures of globalization (global capital, foreign direct investment, exports, foreign-born citizens, and …
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The Rise Of Public Sector Unionism In Detroit, 1947-1967
… The law provided for the termination of striking public sector workers but did not require state and local agencies to bargain with public employees or their representatives. It even allowed for fines and prison sentences for non public sector workers who influenced public sector workers to …
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Fiscal stimulus through state and local governments
… grants on local economies may be mediated by public sector unions. In the second chapter, I explore the impact of revenue structure on city government revenue and expenditure fluctuations. Finally, the third chapter (co-authored with Gabriel Chodorow- Reich, Zachary Liscow, and William …
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A principled engagement?: non-collaboration and the Teachers' League of South Africa in the Western Cape, 1990-2003
… after the organisation merged with several public sector unions in the National Union of Public Service and Allied Workers (NUPSAW) at the end of the last century. The thesis tracks the emergence and changing dynamics of the TLSA from the early decades of the twentieth century, as it …
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Roots of change : front line workers and forest policy reform in West Bengal
… illustrates how, contrary to received wisdom, public sector unions can play a progressive role in policy reform.
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Opportunities and Limits for Mayoral–Public Employee Union Collaborations: The Case of the de Blasio Administration in New York City, 2013–2017
… sheds light on how the relations between public employees’ unions and the de Blasio administration shape the design and implementation of local policies in areas of particular concern to public workers. It asks how public sector labor-management relations and public sector employee unions’ …