Employment Dispute Resolution and Worker Rights in the Changing Workplace / Edition 1

by Adrienne E. Eaton, Jeffrey H. Keefe

Overview

Have the speed, informality, and low cost of the grievance and arbitration system deteriorated? Has the system become too adversarial? Has it lost its problem-solving character? This book examines the nature and degree of change in workplace dispute resolution in the context of ongoing changes in work and in labor relations.The volume begins with an editors' introduction that provides context and offers a political perspective on the current state of dispute resolution in the workplace. The chapters that follow contain critiques of the existing legal framework surrounding mandatory arbitration in the nonunion sector and a review of the empirical literature on nonunion dispute resolution. Employment Dispute Resolution and Worker Rights in the Changing Workplace includes sections on grievance mediation, the status of the grievance procedure in workplaces with extensive worker and/or union participation in decision making, and high-performance workplaces. The study concludes with trends in dispute resolution in the public sector and with the alternative dispute resolution system commonly practiced in the unionized construction industry.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780913447772
Publisher:	Labor and Employment Research Association
Publication date:	03/15/2000
Series:	LERA Research Volume
Edition description:	1 ED
Pages:	305
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Adrienne E. Eaton is Associate Dean of the School of Management and Labor Relations and Associate Professor of Labor Studies and Employment Relations at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey. She is the coauthor of Healing Together: The Labor-Management Partnership at Kaiser Permanente and coeditor of Employment Dispute Resolution and Worker Rights in the Changing Workplace, both from Cornell.

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Albert Vetere Lannon

This survey of dispute resolution in the contemporary workplace will be useful to teachers of grievance procedures who pass knowledge on to union activists.

Editorial Reviews

"This survey of dispute resolution in the contemporary workplace will be useful to teachers of grievance procedures who pass knowledge on to union activists."

Albert Vetere Lannon

"This survey of dispute resolution in the contemporary workplace will be useful to teachers of grievance procedures who pass knowledge on to union activists."—Albert Vetere Lannon, Laney College. Labor Studies Journal, Vol. 26, No. 3, Fall 2001

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