 The First Wave: Concession Bargaining in the 1980sGary Chaison
Chapter Chapter 3 in The New Collective Bargaining, 2012, pp 25-33 from Springer Abstract: Abstract During the first wave of concession bargaining, occurring in the 1980s, employers were reacting to the pressures of global competition, domestic nonunion competition, and deregulation by insisting that unions lower labor costs. New collective agreements frequently had wage cuts or freezes, changes in work rules, and reduced pensions. Concession bargaining became widespread in the airlines (among the older, legacy carriers losing in their competitive battles with the low-cost carriers) and in domestic auto making, and then spread to other industrial sectors. The first wave of concession bargaining eroded the foundations of the labor accord (the accommodation underlying the relationship between unions and employers), freeing employers to incite the ultra-concession bargaining that would appear around the turn of the next century. Keywords: Concession bargaining; Ultra-concession bargaining; Airline negotiations; Airlines; the united autoworkers; The legacy airlines; The low-cost airlines; The Detroit Three automakers; The labor accord (search for similar items in EconPapers) There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it. Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:spbchp:978-1-4614-4024-6_3 Ordering information: This item can be ordered from DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-4024-6_3 Access Statistics for this chapter More chapters in SpringerBriefs in Economics from Springer |
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