Union security rights at the polls: A call for modeling right-to-work voting |
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Authors: | Gilbert J. Gall |
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Affiliation: | (1) Department of Labor Studies and Industrial Relations, The Pennsylvania State University, 16802-1602 University Park, Pennsylvania |
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Abstract: | From 1944 to 1986, 19 states held 27 referendums on right-to-work legislation, with 22.5 million people voting on the proposals. Despite its prominence as a public issue, most research on right-to-work laws focuses on their industrial relations impacts, and not on employees’ individual rights to refrain from joining unions or those same employees’ responsibilities to support their bargaining unit representative. Nor has there been any research on what citizen groups determine those rights and responsibilities in a right-to-work referendum. This study explores a potential operational model of anti-right-to-work voting with a multiple regression analysis of Missouri’s 1978 right-to-work election results, and hopes to serve as a stimulus to additional research on these particular dimensions of the right-to-work issue. |
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Keywords: | right-to-work voting union security restrictions labor politics Missouri right-to-work referendum 1978 electoral targeting |
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