In fact, the bargaining strength of such units is so weak that, between 1976 and 1986, only 50 per cent of all certified
bargaining units in Ontario secured a first collective agreement.
A 1973 amendment to the National Labor Relations Act placed hospital
bargaining units into one of three catetories: professional, nonprofessional, or guards.
O'Brien has also initiated the process for more layoffs, having formally notified the city's municipal employee unions of his plans and identifying the number of positions that require layoffs in each
bargaining unit.
Of AFSCME's 22 state-government
bargaining units, 12 of them, which represent 20 percent of the union's state-worker members, already have voted to accept the contract.
Studies have examined how organizing outcomes are affected by the political, economic, and legal climate; individual workers' attitudes toward their work and the labor movement; employer characteristics and tactics; and
bargaining unit demographics.
The study population was 319 public two-year colleges, 189 of which had faculty
bargaining units and 130 of which did not have faculty bargaining.
As I mentioned earlier we have over 30 locals or local
bargaining units, which creates the union arm of our organization.
Each representative on the committee would hold a vote weighted to the proportion of employees from their
bargaining unit eligible for health insurance, measured against the total number of eligible employees in all
bargaining units.
Both samples are stratified by the size of the
bargaining unit: the 1985 sample includes 100% of the strikes in the 1985 FMCS population involving
bargaining units of 1,000 or more workers and a random sample of 13% of the strikes in that population involving
bargaining units of fewer than 1,000 workers; and the 1989 sample includes 100% of die strikes in the 1989 FMCS population involving
bargaining units of 1,000 or more workers and a random sample of 20% of the strikes in that population involving
bargaining units of fewer than 1,000 workers.
In a ruling that may have a far-reaching effect on the health care industry, the Supreme Court unanimously upheld a 1989 National Labor Relations Board (NLRB) determination that established "appropriate
bargaining units" of hospital employees for collective bargaining purposes (American Hospital Association V.