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Showing 1 to 20 of 51 for “"Unionization"”.
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History of Unionization in Waterloo, Iowa
… the Twentieth Century. This thesis, a history of unionization in Waterloo, Iowa, seeks to explore a small local facet of the larger nation-wide movement. I chose Waterloo as the locale of my study because of its placement in a farming region of the Midwest and because most of the city’s employment …
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Unionization at Justice Canada: A Case Study
… in Chapter 2 maps the academic study of lawyer unionization. Chapter 3 elaborates on the dissertation’s research design as a case study. Chapter 4 explains DOJ lawyers’ exclusion from the Public Service Staff Relations Act, the DOJ’s administration of the individual employment relationship, and …
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Life insurance home office employees and their unionization
Thesis: M.S., Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Department of Business and Engineering Administration, 1951
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Motivations and Drivers of Unionization Among General Surgery Residents
Introduction: Residency program unionization has grown in recent years, yet little data exists to explain the trend. Thus, the objective of this study was to explore general surgery residents’ motivations towards unionization (reasons, feelings, etc.). Methods: Six programs that had unionized since …
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A Study of Unionization in the Field of Nursing
… to nursing unions and the subsequent impact of unionization. An important issue for today's nurse and nursing unions is the advent and impact of Medicare's Prospective Pricing System. This study synthesizes information concerning nursing unionization and provides a point of reference for nurses …
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Factors inhibiting unionization of the Virginia Governmental Employees Association
The study was an investigation into the motives, policies and practices of the Virginia Governmental Employees Association and the motivations, needs and desires of its membership. This was undertaken to determine the major forces which have prevented change in the operating practices or structure …
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Dietitians' attitudes toward collective bargaining and unionization: an empirical investigation
… dietitians toward collective bargaining and unionization. It focused upon providing answers to several questions which were developed into seventeen hypotheses. A questionnaire was constructed, pre-tested, and administered to 1,881 randomly selected members of The American Dietetic …
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An economic analysis of the causes of unionization of college faculty
… 25 percent, for the past quarter century, while unionization in the public sector has increased rapidly over the last 15 years. One example of this growth has been the trend in unionization of college faculty. This particular group presents an interesting opportunity to study unionization, in …
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Women take power : unionization as a strategy to increase wages in Massachusetts
Thesis (M.C.P.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Urban Studies and Planning, 1987.
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Effects of Railway Labor Act Election Rule Changes on Voter Participation and Unionization Activity
… the majority of ballots cast be in favor of unionization to install a collective bargaining entity. This differed from the previous procedure which required the majority of a craft or class of laborers vote in favor of unionization. This study investigates the effects of the voting change on …
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A study of the feasibility of the unionization of the retail clothing clerks in Tuscaloosa, Alabama
… clothing employers and union leaders toward the unionization of the clerks in the retail clothing firms in Tuscaloosa. The study examines the changes in the social and economic conditions of Tuscaloosa that might influence the attitudes of the respondents. From this information a conclusion will …
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Identifying and estimating the distributional effects of unionization and the long-term consequences of military service
… of two important U.S. labor market institutions: unionization and the military draft. The first chapter develops an econometric procedure for estimating quantile treatment effects in a regression discontinuity design. It shows nonparametric identification, develops estimators, including a …
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Solidarity by Association: The Unionization of Faculty, Academic Librarians and Support Staff at Carleton University (1973-1976)
In the mid-1970s, three employee groups at Carleton University changed campus labour relations dramatically: the professors and librarians who belonged to the Carleton University Academic Staff formed the first Ontario faculty union in June 1975; nine months later the Ontario Labour Relations Board …
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The Impact of Unions on Information Asymmetry
… effect of company-specific measures of employee unionization on market-based measures of information asymmetry (proxied for by insider trading activity, analyst following, and analyst dispersion). I also examine whether employee ownership impacts the effect of company-specific measures of …
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Relationship Between Trust and Perceived Value of Faculty Unionization Among Full-Time Faculty in Selected Michigan Community Colleges
… conclusion that there is a relationship between unionization and trust between faculty at unionized schools and administration. There is not a significant difference between trust at unionized and nonunionized schools and faculty. In fact, these findings are consistent with the literature that …
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Three Essays on the Analysis of Firms' Behaviors Under Staggered Treatment Adoption
… in securing credit. The second essay combines unionization data from the National Labor Relations Board and financial data from Compustat to examine the causal effects of unionization on the financing decisions of publicly traded firms in the United States. In this essay, I exploit temporal …
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Hours vs. Employment: The Determinants of Labor Market Adjustment Since The Great Depression
… We primarily focus on the role played by unionization and some of the non-wage labor costs that have become a quasi-fixed cost of employment. Although the effects of unionization and fixed employment costs have been researched previously, we analyze their potential effects in a time-series …
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The Relationship Between Labor Unions and Safety in US Airlines: Is There a "Union Effect?"
… been achieved through union efforts. The effect unionization has on safety outcomes in U.S. commercial airlines, however, wasn’t found to be previously tested. Studies have shown that in industries such as coal mining, retail, and construction, unionization does lead to an increase in safety. …
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The Impact of College and University Faculty Collective Bargaining on State Appropriations to Public Higher Education
… states. Most studies of the effects of faculty unionization have been at the institutional level and have included faculty compensation, workload, and other conditions of employment. Although results of these studies are mixed, unionized faculties at four-year institutions experience greater …
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