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Title

Turning the tide : strategic planning for labor unions / David Weil.

Author

Weil, David N.

Publication

New York : Lexington Books ; Toronto : Maxwell Macmillan Canada ; New York : Maxwell Macmillan International, ©1994.

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Description

xvi, 319 pages : illustrations; 25 cm.

Summary

• Labor unions in the 1990s face tremendous challenges on all fronts. Intensive international and domestic competition, industrial deregulation, and slow economic growth have weakened their collective bargaining position. Organizing new members and retaining existing ones have been made difficult by the changing expectations of workers and the limitations of current labor laws. Together, these forces have led to declining membership and influence.
• These difficult circumstances, however, do not signal the end of unionism, or mandate a universal response from all unions. Instead, they herald an era of choices. David Weil presents a pathbreaking framework to guide union leaders in these complex times.
• Drawing on the ideas of strategic planning developed in the private sector, Weil provides labor leaders with the tools to assess the critical features of their environment, and to design and implement economically sustainable collective bargaining agreements, organizing drives, and other innovative programs.
• Weil explains the impact of economic, technologic, governmental, and labor market forces on union strategy. He details the obstacles to new initiatives and offers methods to overcome them, from adapting the union's organizational structure to redirecting its internal financial resources.
• Based on his work with national, regional, and local unions as well as his academic expertise in labor relations and economics, Weil presents a rich combination of practical experience, academic evidence, and illustrative case studies from the construction, manufacturing, service and public sectors. He demonstrates how unions have succeeded by creating economically sustainable collective bargaining agreements and organizing initiatives.
• In Turning the Tide, labor leaders and scholars of industrial relations will find exciting new approaches to strengthen unions and labor-management relations for the next decade.

Series Statement

Emerging issues in employee relations

Uniform Title

Emerging issues in employee relations

Subject

• Labor unions > United States
• Industrial relations > United States
• Collective bargaining > United States
• Labor movement > United States
• Strategic planning > United States
• Collective bargaining
• Industrial relations
• Labor movement
• Labor unions
• Strategic planning
• trade union
• corporate planning
• evaluation
• trade union attitude
• competitiveness
• technological change
• state intervention
• labour market
• collective bargaining
• personnel management
• resource allocation
• budgeting
• trade union structure
• trade union power
• future
• case study
• statistical table
• Collective bargaining > United States
• Industrial relations > United States
• Labor movement > United States
• Labor unions > United States
• Strategic planning > United States
• syndicat
• planification d'entreprise
• évaluation
• attitude syndicale
• compétitivité
• changement technologique
• intervention de l'Etat
• marché du travail
• négociation collective
• gestion du personnel
• allocation des ressources
• établissement du budget
• structure syndicale
• pouvoir syndical
• futur
• étude de cas
• tableau statistique
• sindicato
• planificación corporativa
• evaluación
• actitud sindical
• competitividad
• cambio tecnológico
• intervención estatal
• mercado de trabajo
• negociación colectiva
• administración de personal
• asignación de recursos
• elaboración del presupuesto
• estructura sindical
• poder sindical
• futuro
• estudio de casos
• cuadros estadísticos
• United States
• USA
• Etats-Unis
• Estados Unidos

Genre/Form

• guide.
• graph.
• reference.
• graphique.
• référence bibliographique.
• guía.
• gráfico.
• referencia.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-301) and index.

Contents

pt. I. Introduction. 1. Strategic Choices for Labor Unions -- pt. II. Strategy Formulation. 2. Analyzing the Product Market. 3. Analyzing Technological Pressures. 4. Analyzing Governmental/Regulatory Pressures. 5. Analyzing the Labor Market/Assessing Membership Priorities. 6. Strategy Formulation: Putting the Pieces Together -- pt. III. Strategy Implementation and Evaluation. 7. Strategic Issues in Finance and Resource Allocation. 8. The Strategic Implications of Union Structure, Part 1. 9. The Strategic Implications of Union Structure, Part 2: Further Applications. 10. Evaluating Strategic Plans -- pt. IV. Conclusions. 11. Strategic Planning and the Future of Labor Unions.

ISBN

• 0029340659
• 9780029340653

LCCN

93036649

OCLC

• ocm28963658
• 28963658
• SCSB-2012711

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library