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Author
Publisher
Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
288 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"For decades, intractable social and economic problems have been eating away at the social fabric of the United States. The crisis is now so deep it's threatening democracy. Income inequality has reached epic proportions, resulting in a lopsided political system that bestows tax breaks on the rich while the rest of the country has been economically abandoned. There's a single, obvious solution to these problems, one with a long, successful history,...
Author
Series
Public administration and public policy volume 177
Publisher
CRC Press, Taylor & Francis Group
Pub. Date
[2014]
Edition
Fifth edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource : illustrations
Language
English
Description
"Since publication of the fourth edition of Labor Relations in the Public Sector, public sector unions have encountered strong headwinds in many parts of the U.S. Membership is falling in some jurisdictions, public opinion has shifted against the unions, and political forces are leaning against them. Retaining the structure that made the previous editions so popular, this fifth edition incorporates a complete round of updates, particularly sections...
3) Collective bargaining agreement: AFSCME AFL-CIO, Local 2478 and the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights
Author
Publisher
U.S. Government Printing Office
Pub. Date
1985.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (75 pages).
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Nation Books
Pub. Date
[2012]
Physical Desc
xv, 192 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Describes the labor protest movement in 2011 over collective bargaining rights for public employees and teachers, emphasizing the media attention it received and its influence on the Occupy Wall Street movement.
Author
Publisher
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
x, 255 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm
Language
English
Description
"This book chronicles Major League Baseball's turbulent '94 season and its ripple effects. It highlights earlier labor struggles and the roles performed by individuals from John Montgomery Ward, David Fultz and Robert Murphy to Marvin Miller, Andy Messersmith, Jim "Catfish" Hunter and Donald Fehr. Also examined are the ballplayers' own organizations, from the Players League of the early 1890s to the still potent Major League Baseball Players Association...
17) Collision course: Ronald Reagan, the air traffic controllers, and the strike that changed America
Author
Publisher
Oxford University Press
Pub. Date
2011.
Physical Desc
viii, 472 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"In August 1981, the Professional Air Traffic Controllers Organization (PATCO) called an illegal strike. The new president, Ronald Reagan, fired the strikers, establishing a reputation for both decisiveness and hostility to organized labor. As Joseph A. McCartin writes, the strike was the culmination of two decades of escalating conflict between controllers and the government that stemmed from the high-pressure nature of the job and the controllers'...
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