Contracts reflected worker concern over inflation and unemployment, and collective bargaining during the year was heavy, as labor-management negotiations occurred in such key industries as trucking, automobiles, electrical equipment, rubber, and meatpacking. (Editor/TA)

Several significant court decisions involving labor cases are discussed including a series of decisions concerning constitutional protections afforded aliens; the First Amendment and national labor relations laws; and the bifurcated backpay rule. (BM)

The paternalistic industrial system is not likely to be discarded soon; in today's fast-moving economy, it affords cost flexibility and employment security. (Editor)

Experience in Sweden, Austria, and Israel points to new strains on industrial relations structure and need for adaptation by labor, management, and government. (Editor)

From 1992 to 1996, the Supreme Court decided a number of cases on labor law and employment law. Case topics included labor relations, pensions and benefits, employment discrimination, and privacy, free speech, and other issues in public sector employment. (JOW)

The article traces the impact of Title Seven of the Civil Rights Act on equal employment consent decrees and court decisions dealing with the seniority arrangement in the steel industry. (MW)

Reviews labor contracts renegotiated during 1988, placing emphasis on labor-management relations. Provides information on negotiations in the following industries: (1) trucking, (2) air transportation, (3) automobile manufacturing, (4) steel and other metals, (5) rubber, (6) bituminous coal, (7) forest products, and (8) shipbuilding. Covers…

This special issue contains eight articles that examine the following: social justice, global employment issues, International Labor Organization (ILO) standards, social security, training, tripartism, the 1994 ILO conference, and labor standards--all from a global perspective. (JOW)

Summaries are presented, by state, of labor standards legislation passed during 1984. Significant actions included laws concerning wages, child labor, school attendance, occupational safety and health, working hours, equal employment opportunity, worker privacy, labor relations, private employment agencies, employment and training, plant closings,…

The rapid technological changes and competitive pressure of Western economies are breathing new life into efforts to establish partnerships between workers and management. A lower union membership rate, less government regulation, and outmoded legislation may hinder such arrangements to a greater extent in the United States than in Europe. (Author)

Presents a summary, by state jurisdiction, of labor legislation during 1985. Legislation covered such topics as wages, equal employment opportunity, background clearance, occupational safety and health, employment and training, child labor, industrial homework, hours, agriculture, labor relations, plant closings, worker privacy, private employment…

A special report on the handling of dismissal cases in U.S. law, contract, and custom. (Editor)

In contrast to its 1988 term, the Supreme Court's new term presents less controversial, though still important, labor issues in such areas as public-sector labor relations, pensions, occupational safety and health, employment discrimination, and workers' compensation. (Author)

Describes experimental training programs for developing arbitrators and the creation of simplified arbitration and grievance handling procedures to help meet increasing needs. (MF)

An 18-month quality-of-working-life experiment in an underground coal mine was conducted using autonomous work groups. Increased production, motivation, and safety resulted, but discontent was created among other workers at the mine. (TA)