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- Title
THE U.S. AUTOMOBILE COLLECTIVE BARGAINING SYSTEM IN TRANSITION.
- Authors
Katz, Harry C.
- Abstract
This article argues that bargaining in the automobile industry historically has been structured by a labor relations system which is comprised of three central features. These features are the determination of wages through formula-like wage rules in multi-year national agreements, a connective bargaining structure which defined the relationship between national and plant level bargaining and a job control focus premised on the contractual resolution of disagreements that operates at both national and local levels. The reluctance of labor and management to revise the three features in a more flexible or comprehensive manner supports the contention that these features reinforced one another to form a labor relations system. It is only recent events and the continuing low level of employment that have induced major revisions which point to an erosion of the old labor relations system.
- Subjects
UNITED States; COLLECTIVE bargaining; CONTRACT system (Labor); INDUSTRIAL relations; AUTOMOBILE industry workers; AUTOMOBILE industry
- Publication
British Journal of Industrial Relations, 1984, Vol 22, Issue 2, p205
- ISSN
0007-1080
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1111/j.1467-8543.1984.tb00163.x