“…That is, the advocacy and involvement in developing empowerment initiatives can by viewed by union members as a form o f perceived union support (Shore et al, 1994). The consistent findings in the literature that perceived organizational support positively affects company commitment (e.g., Eisenberger et al, 2001;Hutchison, Sowa, Eisenberger, & Huntington, 1986;Rhoades, Eisenberger, & Armeli, 2001;Settoon, Bennett, & Liden, 1996;Tansky & Cohen, 2001) suggest that perceived union support should positively affect union loyalty. Consistent with this idea, Shore et al (1994) and Sinclair and Tetrick (1995) found perceived union support to be positively related to union loyalty.…”