Union Participation in Strategic Decisions of Corporations

Eileen Appelbaum and Larry W. Hunter

No 9590, NBER Working Papers from National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc

Abstract: This paper reviews workforce participation in strategic decisions - those that affect the basic direction of the company - when workforce interests are represented collectively through unions. We consider the problem of corporate governance and review the rationale for what we term strategic partnerships' between management and labor. The paper describes the prevalence of such partnerships in the U.S., focusing on two institutions through which unions have engaged in discussion of strategic issues: negotiated union-management partnership agreements, and union representation on corporate boards. We offer detailed accounts of specific strategic partnerships and of union involvement on corporate boards, showing that unions face a range of challenges in constructing partnerships that extend possibilities for effective representations of workers' interests.

JEL-codes: J53 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2003-03
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Published as Freeman, Richard B., Joni Hersch, and Lawrence Mishel (eds.) Emerging labor market institutions for the twenty-first century NBER Conference Report series. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press, 2005.
Published as Union Participation in Strategic Decisions of Corporations , Eileen Appelbaum, Larry W. Hunter. in Emerging Labor Market Institutions for the Twenty-First Century , Freeman, Hersch, and Mishel. 2005

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