How Right to Work Is Destroying the American Labor Movement: From the Ku Klux Klan to the Tea Party

Hogler, Raymond L.

doi:10.1007/s10672-011-9183-1

Cited by 16 publications

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“…Further, Kaminski believes the DeVos family sought right-to-work in Michigan specifically to weaken the Democratic Party to assist a Republican presidential candidate in winning the state in 2016 (Kaminski 2015). These observations comport with Hogler (2011) who argues that right-to-work laws are passed to attain "hidden" ideological objectives: "less influence for unions, less bargaining power for workers, more wealth for the wealthy, and more misery for the immiserated" (p. 303).…”

Section: The Common Wisdommentioning

confidence: 91%

Addressing the “Union Problem” during the Great Recession: State Approaches to Reforming Collective Bargaining

Wade

2018

Labor Studies Journal

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Conventional narratives suggest that during the Great Recession, Republican-controlled state governments seized a political opportunity to de-unionize labor strongholds by enacting sweeping right-to-work laws. However, I contend that two distinct reform approaches were pursued during the recession. One type aimed to restrict the ability of unions to organize and maintain membership (the “right-to-work” approach), while the other sought to constrain collective bargaining without hampering union organizing. My analysis of 2,545 labor relations bills introduced across the U.S. States from 2007 to 2014 confirms the existence of two broad models of reform, each with differing implications for organized labor and partisan politics.

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Section: The Common Wisdommentioning

confidence: 91%

Addressing the “Union Problem” during the Great Recession: State Approaches to Reforming Collective Bargaining

Wade

2018

Labor Studies Journal

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“…Second, political and legal systems can be characterized in terms of the degree to which their policies are broadly supportive of management versus labor. For example, many states in the United States have adopted right-to work laws that can substantially limit the viability and power of unions (Hogler, 2011). In contrast, the European Union provides considerable legal support to unions and to collective bargaining (Block & Berg, 2010).…”

Section: Political and Legal Contextmentioning

confidence: 99%

Home and host distal context and performance appraisal in multinational enterprises: A 22 country study

Morley

Murphy

Cleveland

et al. 2021

Human Resource Management

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Context is a central construct in the study of performance appraisal (PA) systems, but to date studies linking the distal context within which organizations operate to PA have been limited in two ways. First, these studies have focused predominantly on national culture, and have paid less attention to the legal/political and economic environment within which organizations. Second, few studies reflect the growing international nature of business organizations, which create multiple layers of context (e.g., home and host country context).Drawing on both situational strength and institutional theories, we hypothesize the links between the "big three" facets of distal context (i.e., culture, legal/political, and economic) and the processes and purposes of PA systems. Using data from 472 multinational enterprises (MNEs) in 22 countries, we show that all three facets of the distal context of the host country influence decisions about the conduct of PA systems. In addition, we show that the culture and legal/political systems of the home country from which the MNE originated are also linked to the PA processes and purposes. Finally, we find evidence that MNEs are more likely to develop hybridized PA systems that depart from host country norms.

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“…If the "price of labor" is closely aligned with a worker's actual wage, as economic theory purports, then RTW could impact average wages by as much as 18.3 percent (Garofalo and Malhotra 1992). In the middle are studies which show that RTW has no statistically discernible effect and those which show a moderate decrease in wages as a consequence of RTW laws (Eren and Ozbeklik 2011;Gould and Shierholz 2011;Hogler 2011;Lafer 2011;Moore 1980;Stevans 2009). Due to flawed methodologies in the studies, which find increases in wages in the law, a full literature review suggests that RTW by itself lowers wages by between 0 and 5 percent on average.…”

Section: Gould Shierholz 2011mentioning

confidence: 99%

The Economic Effects of Adopting a Right-to-Work Law

Bruno

Zullo

Manzo

et al. 2015

Labor Studies Journal

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While considerable efforts have been made by legislators, business associations, and political organizations to pass right-to-work (RTW) laws in states across the country, the empirical evidence on the effect of adopting an RTW law on labor market outcomes and state budgets is both varied and mixed. This article provides a forecast on the effect of RTW laws on important labor market outcomes-including earnings, employment, unionization, and inequality. It also investigates RTW's impacts on two particularly affected industries (manufacturing and construction) and three demographic groups (African-American, Latino/a, and female workers). The findings are subsequently applied to the state of Illinois to project the potential law's impact on Illinois workers and on the state's tax revenues. By and large, as a policy prescription, RTW would generate harmful effects to Illinois' economy, lower its capacity to provide essential public services and degrade the quality and condition of the state's labor force.

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How Right to Work Is Destroying the American Labor Movement: From the Ku Klux Klan to the Tea Party

Cited by 16 publications

References 6 publications

Addressing the “Union Problem” during the Great Recession: State Approaches to Reforming Collective Bargaining

Addressing the “Union Problem” during the Great Recession: State Approaches to Reforming Collective Bargaining

Home and host distal context and performance appraisal in multinational enterprises: A 22 country study

The Economic Effects of Adopting a Right-to-Work Law

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