Re–Union – How Bold Labor Reforms Can Repair, Revitalize, and Reunite the Unite…

Re-UnionHow Bold Labor Reforms Can Repair, Revitalize, and Reunite the United States\nAuthor(s): David Madland\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Cornell University Press, United States\nImprint: ILR Press\nISBN-13: 9781501755378, 978-1501755378\nSynopsis\nIn Re-Union, David Madland explores how labor unions are essential to all workers. Yet, union systems are badly flawed and in need of rapid changes for reform. Madland's multilayered analysis presents a solutiona model to replace the existing firm-based collective bargaining with a larger, industry-scale bargaining method coupled with powerful incentives for union membership.\n\n These changes would represent a remarkable shift from the norm, but would be based on lessons from other countries, US history and current policy in several cities and states. In outlining the shift, Madland details how these proposals might mend the broken economic and political systems in the United States. He also uses three examples from Britain, Canada, an.