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"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 11th 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.

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• I Setting The Stage
• 1 Organized Labor and the Management Community: An Overview
• II The Environmental Framework
• 2 The Historical Framework
• 3 The Legal Framework
• 4 Union Behavior: Structure, Government, and Operation
• III Collective Bargaining
• 5 At the Bargaining Table
• 6 Administration of the Agreement
• Case 1 Time Limits: The Case of the New Union President
• Case 2 Past Practice: The Case of Unambiguous Contract Language
• 7 Wage Issues under Collective Bargaining
• Case 3 Overtime: The Case of the Material Handler
• 8 Economic Supplements under Collective Bargaining
• Case 4 Holiday Pay: The Case of the Striking Teachers
• Case 5 The Case of the Life-Support System
• Case 6 Reporting Pay: The Case of the Strike
• 9 Institutional Issues under Collective Bargaining
• Case 7 Management Rights: The Case of the Consolidated Classifications
• Case 8 Management Rights: The Case of Hiring an Outside Employee
• 10 Administrative Issues under Collective Bargaining
• Case 9 Seniority: The Case of the Bypassed Senior Employee
• Case 10 Employee Discipline: The Case of the Stolen Bins
• Case 11 Employee Discipline: The Case of the Employee Who Was Paid and Not Required to Work
• Case 12 Plant Closing: The Case of the Silent Sale
• Appendix
• Mock Negotiation Problem
• Author Index
• Subject Index