Labor Relations

Labor Relations, the most accurate, readable, timely, and valuable book of its kind on the market, provides readers with a basic understanding of unionism in its natural habitat and a fundamental appreciation of the union-management process. It focuses on the negotiation and administration of labor agreements, and emphasizes the more significant bargaining issues. The 12th edition includes much new material and an extensively revised and updated bibliography. For vice-presidents and directors of labor relations, union presidents, and others who are full-time labor-management professionals for either managements or unions.

This classic exploration of unionism in its natural habitat focuses on the realities of union-management relations in the mid-1990s. Comprehensive and authoritative, it first provides a broad overview of the general nature of present-day labor relations, then surveys the historical, legal and structural environments that so greatly influence contractual contents and labor relations behavior. Coverage concludes with a close examination of the negotiation, administration, major contents, and significant bargaining issues of the labor agreement itself—as it appears today.