BNET Business Dictionary
Business Definition for: Collective Bargaining
- negotiations about conditions of employment between an employer, a group of employers or their representatives, and employees' representatives such as a labor union with a view to reaching a collective agreement
Additional Resources
- Collective Bargaining in the Face of Instability: A Resource for Workers and Employers in the U.S. Aerospace Industry
- For employees and employers in the aerospace industry, collective bargaining represents an enormous challenge and opportunity. Collective bargaining serves two primary functions - it codifies past understandings and innovations, as well as establishing terms and conditions to guide future interactions. In the aerospace context, collective bargaining must remain constantly responsive...
- White papers 2001-03-01
- Collective Bargaining Under Complete Information
- This paper builds and structurally estimates a complete information bargaining model of collective negotiation. For large firms, the assumption of complete information seems a sensible one, and it matches the collective bargaining environment better than the one provided by private information models. The specification of the model with players having...
- White papers 2000-07-01
- Collective Bargaining: Levels and Coverage
- This document examines the levels and coverage of collective bargaining. Collective bargaining is a process of decision-making between parties representing an employer and employee interest which implies the "negotiation and continuous application of an agreed set of rules to govern the substantive and procedural terms of the employment relationship". In...
- White papers 2002-11-26
- Collective bargaining and private sector professionals
- Collective bargaining and private sector professionalsResearchers review the history and current status of unionism and assess the prospects for collective bargaining among private sector professionals The fact that unionization rates are now higher among professionals than nonprofessionals--26.8 percent versus 17.8 percent in 1988(1)--has led to predictions that professionals are...
- Research articles 1989-09-01
- Nod to collective bargaining deals.
- May 25, 2005 (The Weekly Times - ABIX via COMTEX) The Australian Competition & Consumer Commission ACCC has extended an authorisation for collective bargaining in dairy farming until 2010. John McQueen, the CEO of Australian Dairy Farmers, said collective bargaining provides benefits to both...
- Research articles 2005-05-26
- Collective bargaining and collective boycotts: ACCC Issues Paper.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-7 July 2004-ACCC: Collective bargaining and collective boycotts: ACCC Issues PaperC1994-2004 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:07072004 An Australian Competition and Consumer Commission Issues Paper on collective bargaining and collective boycotts issued today will provide an insight to what the ACCC considers...
- Research articles 2004-07-07
- Unemployment, Wages and Collective Bargaining in the European Union
- The paper questions the predominant view on unemployment and wages in the European Union according to which high unemployment is primarily caused by labor market rigidities, i.e. social institutions and regulations which prevent "market-clearing" real wage levels and structures. Weakened labor union bargaining power and changing collective bargaining strategies have...
- White papers 2004-09-01
- The Missing Link: Product Market Regulation, Collective Bargaining And The European Unemployment Puzzle
- This paper examines product market regulation as an explanation for divergent US and continental European labor market performance. First, it shows that the choice of bargaining regime is crucial for the effect of product market competition on unemployment rates, being substantial under collective and negligible under individual bargaining. The results...
- White papers 2004-02-15
- Promoting gender equality through collective bargaining
- We cannot rely on legislation to achieve and protect equality issues. Collective bargaining is a much more effective mechanism for ensuring that these rights exist. Although there have been major achievements made in equality issues in the past, downsizing and reorganization are taking a toll, impacting on the lives of...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Antitrust - National Football League owners exempted from antitrust in collective bargaining - The Law At Work
- The Supreme Court's recent ruling in the National Football League NFL players case, Brown v. Pro Football, Inc.,(1) grants broad immunity from antitrust lawsuits to employer groups whose collective bargaining activities are challenged. In an 8-1 decision, the High Court held that the National Labor Relations Board NLRB has the...
- Research articles 1996-10-01
- Collective bargaining jargon.
- May 16, 2007 (ACCC Update - ABIX via COMTEX) -- In most instances, collective bargaining, where it involves small businesses, is illegal under the Trade Practices Act. This is because the idea of allowing normally competing businesses to combine in o May 16, 2007 (ACCC Update...
- Research articles 2007-05-16
- FTC foe of collective bargaining bill for docs. (Helath Care).(calls proposed legislation a form of price fixing)
- Byline: MICHAEL ROMANO In response to proposed legislation in Ohio, the Federal Trade Commission has reiterated its objection to collective bargaining for physicians, calling it a form of ``price-fixing'' that would significantly increase the cost Byline: MICHAEL ROMANO In response...
- Research articles 2002-11-18
- Allstate agents seek vote on union.(United Exclusive Allstate Agents may form collective bargaining unit)(Brief Article)
- A captive agent group said it has collected enough petition signatures to move ahead with holding a vote on whether to form a collective bargaining unit for Allstate agents. In a statement released by John Bryant, head of United Exclusive Allstate A captive...
- Research articles 2002-08-19
- The Middleby Corporation Announces New Collective Bargaining Agreement at its Unionized Facility in Elgin, Illinois and End of a Work Stoppage
- ELGIN, Ill. -- The Middleby Corporation (NASDAQ: MIDD) announced that it has entered into a new collective bargaining agreement with its unionized workforce at its Elgin, Illinois manufacturing facility, ending a work stoppage at this facility that began on May 17, 2007 after the unionized workforce failed to ratify a...
- Research articles 2007-07-30
- CWA takes offensive.(Communications Workers of America locals in Pennsylvania charge that Comcast Corp. is delaying collective bargaining)(Brief Article)
- Communications Workers of America locals in Western Pennsylvania have gone public with charges that Comcast Corp. has dragged its feet for two years, delaying collective bargaining for the cable company's workers. The union has bought radio a Communications...
- Research articles 2003-05-12
- TSA's Loy Determines Collective Bargaining Conflicts with National Security Needs
- WASHINGTON, Jan. 9 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Adm. James Loy, under secretary of transportation for security, today signed an order precluding collective bargaining by Transportation Security Administration TSA screeners after determining "mandatory collecWASHINGTON, Jan. 9 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Adm. James Loy, under secretary of transportation for security, today signed an order...
- Research articles 2003-01-09
- Retailers urged to consider collective bargaining over lease terms.
- Jul 16, 2007 (Inside Retailing - ABIX via COMTEX) -- Graeme Samuel says he cannot understand why shopping centre tenants do not want to engage in collective bargaining. Samuel, the chair of the Australian Competition & Consumer Commission ACCC, Jul 16, 2007 (Inside Retailing - ABIX...
- Research articles 2007-07-16
- Opponents of Oklahoma's collective bargaining act still hopeful for
- As promised by many Republicans when the Oklahoma Municipal Employee Collective Bargaining Act passed, a bill to repeal the act was filed. State Rep. Bill Case, R-Midwest City, and state Sen. Glenn Coffee, R-Oklahoma City, did just that and authored House Bill 1004, a bill created to do...
- Research articles 2005-04-06
- Elite swimmers collective bargaining request likely to be cleared by ACCC.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-23 February 2006-AUSTRALIAN COMPETITION AND CONSUMER COMMISSION: Elite swimmers collective bargaining request likely to be cleared by ACCCC1994-2006 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:23022006 A collective bargaining proposal involving many of Australia's elite swimmers has been given draft approval today by the...
- Research articles 2006-02-23
- Northwest Airlines' Flight Attendants Ratify Collective Bargaining Agreement; Airline has reached ratified labor agreements with all unions as it prepares to exit bankruptcy.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-31 May 2007-NORTHWEST AIRLINES: Northwest Airlines' Flight Attendants Ratify Collective Bargaining Agreement; Airline has reached ratified labor agreements with all unions as it prepares to exit bankruptcyC1994-2007 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:30052007 EAGAN, Minn. - Northwest Airlines (NYSE: NWA WI)...
- Research articles 2007-05-31
