Challenges to professionalism and union voting intentions: The case of pharmacists

McHugh, Patrick P.; Bodah, Matthew M.

doi:10.1007/s12122-002-1034-2

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“…NERPs are often perceived by both workers and managers as less adversarial than unions, and hence hold considerable appeal as alternatives to unions (Freeman and Rogers 1999: 7; Freeman et al . 2007; Hovekamp 1997; Hurd and Bunge 2005; Ichniowski and Zax 1990; Kamm 1997; McHugh and Bodah 2002; Park et al . 2006).…”

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“…There are a small number of recent studies on tensions and tradeoffs as NERP workers consider unionization (e.g. Benson 2000; Brooke 2000–01; Gollan 2006a; Kaufman 2003; McHugh and Bodah 2002; Moriguchi 2005; Upchurch et al . 2006; Watling and Snook 2003), but few are explicit in trying to isolate any unique effects that result from the NERP (e.g.…”

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‘Shopping for Voice’: Do Pre‐Existing Non‐Union Representation Plans Matter When Employees Unionize?

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Taras

Ponak

2011

Brit J Industrial Rel

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The transition to unionization in three workplaces with pre-existing non-union employee representation plans (NERPs) is contrasted to three matched sites, which had only individual representation. Pre-existing collective voice arrangements had substantial effects on the process and outcomes of unionization. While the individual representation sites presented a conventional process of mobilization and attachment to the union, the NERP sites revealed a more equivocal outcome. The union was used in an instrumental manner to increase NERP power and to achieve worker demands already articulated by the NERP. NERP leaders became union leaders. There remained significant attachment to the NERP and a reluctance to fully embrace unionization.

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Section: Review Of the Non‐union Terrainmentioning

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Section: Review Of the Non‐union Terrainmentioning

confidence: 99%

‘Shopping for Voice’: Do Pre‐Existing Non‐Union Representation Plans Matter When Employees Unionize?

Timur

Taras

Ponak

2011

Brit J Industrial Rel

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“….1 percent of all professionals were union members, in contrast to 12.9 percent of all wage and salary workers. Recently there has been a marked increase in interest in unionization among pharmacists (McHugh and Bodah 2002) and physicians (9 percent of pharmacists and 5 percent of physicians are now members). See…”

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No More Business as Usual: Using Pension Activism to Protect Workers' Rights

Zanglein¹

2006

Justice on the Job: Perspectives on the Erosion of Collective Bargaining in the United States

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“…This role has changed, however, as the union movement in the United States has declined among trade workers but has grown among professional groups and public sector employees (Clawson & Clawson, 1999;Farber & Western, 2001). The new era of labor unions in the United States extends into occupational fields of technology workers, physicians, pharmacists, lawyers, and airline pilots, often referred to as elite professionals (Goldstein, 1999;McHugh & Bodah, 2002;Raelin, 1989). Elite professionals are a unique occupational group whose members have advanced or specialized training, autonomy and control over their work, play a central role in making decisions that affect their jobs, and have salaries in the upper quartile of wage earners (Raelin, 1989).…”

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Ironies in the Discursive Struggle of Pilots Defending the Profession

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Putnam

2005

Management Communication Quarterly

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This article examines discursive forms of resistance used by a splinter group of a U.S. airline pilots’ union in its campaign against a contract settlement supported by union leaders. Forms of resistance included oppositional tensions, military metaphors, and dualities that surfaced in central themes of the campaign. These discursive strategies revealed ironies of advocating unity while promoting division and arguing to eliminate a two-tiered pay scale while supporting class distinctions between pilots. These tactics were similar to and different from approaches that oppositional groups within conventional unions typically used. Overall, these strategies pitted pilots against pilots, professionals against professionals, union against union and suggested that organized resistance is constructed discursively, ironically and in tandem with routine resistance practices.

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Challenges to professionalism and union voting intentions: The case of pharmacists

Cited by 9 publications

References 18 publications

‘Shopping for Voice’: Do Pre‐Existing Non‐Union Representation Plans Matter When Employees Unionize?

‘Shopping for Voice’: Do Pre‐Existing Non‐Union Representation Plans Matter When Employees Unionize?

No More Business as Usual: Using Pension Activism to Protect Workers' Rights

Ironies in the Discursive Struggle of Pilots Defending the Profession

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