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Public Sector Bargaining Labor Relations Reaction Paper

Paul E. Pynes and Joan M. Lafferty assess the issue of labor relations and unions from a different stand -- that of the safety concerns. The two authors found out that most of the labor unions request some sort of membership fee and that the explanation forwarded by the unions to explain these fees is represented by the fact that they require financial resources to efficiently address the needs of the individuals they represent.

Pynes and Lafferty took a rather distant approach of the topic and focused on the objective presentation of the various types and contracts of union security provisions. These included the closed shops -- which are the most rigid type of union security in the private sector --, the union shop, the agency shop, the fair share arrangement and the maintenance of membership (highly rare). Aside from the actual forms of union security provisions, the two authors also discuss the collection of the fees and the prohibition of labor union in some states of the U.S.

All in all, the approach taken by Pynes and Lafferty does not leave much room for discussion and interpretation. It is...

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This piece of writing is rather informative and educational, unlike the writing of Dan Goldhaber, which is supported by more extensive research and by the inclusion of personal findings and conclusions.

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Coulson, A.J., The effects of teachers unions on American education, Cato Institute, http://www.cato.org/pubs/journal/cj30n1/cj30n1-8.pdf last accessed on November 1, 2011

Goldhaber, D., Are teachers' unions good for students, quoted in Collective bargaining in education by Jane Hannaway and Andrew J. Rotherham, Harvard Educational Press

Lovenheim, M.F., 2007, The effect of teachers' unions on education production: evidence from union election certifications in three Midwestern states, University of Illinois, http://www.economics.illinois.edu/docs/seminars/the-effect-of-teachers-unions-on-education-production.pdf last accessed on November 1, 2011

Pynes, J.E., Lafferty, J.M., Local government labor relations, Union security devices
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