Gender and Union Organizing

Crain, Marion

doi:10.2307/2524418

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“…Union organizers invariably raise awareness about job security, wages and fringe benefits (Barling etai, 1992;Lynn and Brister, 1989). However, recent union efforts to gain membership in the growing service oriented industries have focussed on themes that go beyond those of traditional bread-and-butter issues, emphasizing respect, faimess, and greater participation in decision making (Crain, 1994;Green and Tilly, 1987). As part of her study on union organizing, Bronfenbrenner (1997) found that emphasizing at least one issue related to dignity, justice, discrimination, faimess, or input into service quality predicted union election victories: With all else held constant, the likelihood of a union victory rose by 15 percent if the union emphasized such issues.…”

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To vote or not to vote: abstaining from voting in union representation elections

Hepburn

Barling

2001

J Organ Behavior

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SummaryWe conducted two studies addressing abstaining from voting in union representation elections. In Study 1 of a faculty representation election, we showed that compared to voters abstainers possessed less extreme work and union attitudes, believed less in the ability of their vote to affect the election outcomes, and were less involved in the election (e.g., less interested, felt less responsibility to vote). To assess the practical utility of these findings. Study 2 used vignettes in a 2 (traditional bread-and-butter issues) 2 (emerging issues related to fairness) X 2 (voting instrumentality) x 2 (responsibility to vote) experimental manipulation.Results showed that the likelihood of abstaining is reduced when efforts to emphasize the responsibility to vote are presented together with information on both traditional and emerging issues. The two studies show why people abstain from voting in union representation elections, and suggest how abstaining might be reduced. Conceptual implications, practical interventions and research directions raised by the two studies are discussed.

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To vote or not to vote: abstaining from voting in union representation elections

Hepburn

Barling

2001

J Organ Behavior

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“…Crain (1994) maintains that the work of shop stewards is of immediate importance for membership since they are the ones who organise and deal with the problems of members. Meanwhile, insufficient contact with members has been reported as the common problem from the perspective of shop stewards (Batstone et al, 1977).…”

Section: Shop Stewards In International Research Literaturementioning

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How Do Shop Stewards Perceive Their Situation and Tasks? Preconditions for Support of Union Work

Pilemalm¹,

Hallberg²,

Timpka

2001

Economic and Industrial Democracy

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“…Although their desire for membership may be as high as that of men and minority workers, women's participation is far weaker (Parsley, 1980). In 1991 only 12.6 percent of employed women were union members versus 19.3 percent of employed men (Crain, 1991). In 1992, Flaherty and Caniglia found that women are half as likely as men to be union members.…”

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confidence: 99%