The Role of Union Strategies in NLRB Certification Elections

Bronfenbrenner, Kate

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“…This view accords with Bronfenbrenner's (1997) research and conclusions calling for unions to conduct “ comprehensive ” organizing campaigns, that is, more intensive, multifaceted efforts (in contrast to, say, a more diffuse “scattergun approach” or excessive reliance on one or a few tactics). Bronfenbrenner showed that various union tactics, such as formation of large volunteer organizing committees, one‐on‐one recruiting, and workplace “mapping,” increase union success.…”

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“…Further, the use of numerous tactics per se, suggesting a comprehensive organizing approach, had considerable influences on election results. In fact, union organizing tactics were found to have greater influence on election outcomes than were employer tactics that unions have often decried as coercive and influential (Bronfenbrenner 1997).…”

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Why We Need a Survey of Unions

Fiorito

Gall

2012

Journal of Labor and Society

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Unions represent millions of workers in both Britain and the U.S. despite substantial membership declines over the last thirty years. Union influence and trends contained therein are major concerns to a broad range of social sciences and business-related disciplines, as well as to unions themselves. Data on unions as organizations are, however, woefully inadequate for the purpose of assessing the activities and influence of unions, as well as their status and prospects. In this article, we assess what we know and do not know about unions as organizations, and offer suggestions for what we need to know and how to get from where we are presently to where we would like to be.

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Why We Need a Survey of Unions

Fiorito

Gall

2012

Journal of Labor and Society

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“…In particular, previous approaches have often defined greenfield organizing ‘success’ or ‘failure’ in terms of whether or not bargaining rights are established (see Bronfenbrenner, , for a seminal study). Factors influencing ‘success’ or ‘failure’ have primarily been identified as variations in organizing campaign tactics (see Bronfenbrenner ; Ferguson ; Heery et al . ; Lynn and Brister ).…”

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Accounting for Greenfield Union Organizing Outcomes

Simms

2014

Brit J Industrial Rel

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This paper presents a framework for evaluating and accounting for the outcomes of 'greenfield' union organising campaigns. It argues that previous studies have tended to focus too much on the establishment of collective bargaining and negotiation of first contract as a campaign outcome. Instead, the effectiveness and representativeness of new union structures are emphasised, and the sustainability of those structures is emphasised as the most important outcome. A key finding from the empirical data is that campaigns that build both workplace activism and are coordinated by officers create more sustainable outcomes than campaigns that focus on one or the other. The evidence show how and why these outcomes emerge and the paper concludes with a consideration of the theoretical and practical implications of this finding.Word count: 10813

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“…Thus, commitment research may offer useful means for explaining the relative lack of success of union renewal as well as indicating in which direction union praxis should move. Making this connection is highly pertinent because other salient union renewal projects, like union organizing, have focused heavily upon union agency, namely, what unions can do of their own volition to inject pro‐union values into non‐union workers and how unions can develop workers into members and activists (see Bronfenbrenner 1997). The underlying thrust of this perspective is that unions are not innocent bystanders in the determination of their fate.…”

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confidence: 99%