Collective Bargaining: Partnership by Legislation
Date of Graduation
Fall 1977
Degree
Master of Business Administration
Department
Management and Information Technology
Committee Chair
John Bowdidge
Abstract
At the turn of the twentieth century, American industry was in a period of tremendous growth and change, drastically effecting the workplace and the employer-employee relationship. Powerful employers searched for means of obtaining more efficiency and preventing waste; employees, on the other hand, sought a means to counter the strength of the large corporations. Congress, through legislation, and the National Labor Relations Board and federal courts, through interpretive decision, have approached the balancing of conflicting, legitimate interests by providing a framework of good faith collective bargaining over certain aspects of the employer-employee relationship while remaining unrestrictive relative to specific issues or possible solutions. To satisfy the requirements of good faith collective bargaining an employer must recognize his employees, through their representatives, as "Restricted Partners," limited to the aspects of wages, hours and working conditions. Collective bargaining in this perspective is a distribution of the power to decide these specific matters. Business partners usually manage to negotiate harmonious solutions to their internal commercial problems; similarly, the federal labor legislation and policy is an attempt to accomplish peaceful solutions to labor problems through good faith collective bargaining.
Subject Categories
Business Administration, Management, and Operations
Copyright
© John A. Gross
Recommended Citation
Gross, John A., "Collective Bargaining: Partnership by Legislation" (1977). MSU Graduate Theses/Dissertations. 3078.
https://bearworks.missouristate.edu/theses/3078
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