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- Title
USING LABOR/ MANAGEMENT COMMITTEES TO IMPROVE PRODUCTIVITY.
- Authors
Champagne, Paul J.
- Abstract
The article presents information on the role of labor-management committees for improving industrial productivity. The literature dealing with joint labor-management committees is extensive and generally quite positive. Increasingly, experiences with these committees are providing impressive examples of productivity gains. Yet, if cooperation is to be more than a passing fad, more firms need to understand how joint committees operate. The size of a labor-management committee can vary, but typically 8-12 individuals are involved, half the representatives from the union, half from management. Though created through collective bargaining, these joint committees do not deal with negotiable issues of wages and fringe benefits, rather, they are advisory bodies and restrict their attention to issues of mutual interest not usually covered by written agreements. An interesting example of community self renewal through labor-management cooperation is the joint activity taking place in Jamestown, New York, a factory town of 40,000 people faced with loss of plants and jobs because of a bad labor relations climate. Clearly labor-management committees have been able to deal effectively with a variety of problems facing business today.
- Subjects
JAMESTOWN (N.Y.); NEW York (State); LABOR-management committees; INDUSTRIAL productivity; INDUSTRIAL efficiency; COLLECTIVE bargaining; EMPLOYEE relations programs
- Publication
Human Resource Management, 1982, Vol 21, Issue 2/3, p67
- ISSN
0090-4848
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1002/hrm.3930210208