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Title: LAWS ENABLING PUBLIC-SECTOR COLLECTIVE BARGAINING HAVE NOT LED TO EXCESSIVE PUBLIC-SECTOR PAY
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Publication Year: 2015
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Abstract: Unlike many other countries, when the United States enacted its private-sector labor law, the National Labor Relations Act, in 1935, it did not include public employees within the same or similar framework for collective bargaining. Not until the late 1950s and 1960s did state and local governments grapple with a labor law to govern their rapidly growing public-sector labor forces. No state or local government chose to transplant the private-sector model of collective bargaining; instead they adopted some parts of it, chose to create no bargaining framework at all, or prohibited collective bargaining. This paper describes the rapid growth of labor laws that have enabled public-sector collective bargaining, and examines the effects of various labor law frameworks on public employee wages.
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Authors: KEEFE, JEFFREY, H
Publisher: Economic Policy Institute
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Other
Countries: United States