Union Rights for All: Toward Sectoral Bargaining in the United States

Authors

Kate Andrias, Columbia Law SchoolFollow

Document Type

Book Chapter

Publication Date

2019

DOI

https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108610070.009

Abstract

American labor unions have collapsed. Having once bargained for more than a third of American workers, unions now represent only about 6 percent of the private sector workforce. In the wake of new statutory and constitutional limitations, their presence in the public sector is shrinking as well.

Disciplines

Labor and Employment Law | Law

Comments

This material has been published in the "Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century", edited by Richard Bales and Charlotte Garden. This version is free to view and download for private research and study only. Not for re-distribution or re-use.

Recommended Citation

Kate Andrias, Union Rights for All: Toward Sectoral Bargaining in the United States, Cambridge Handbook of U.S. Labor Law for the Twenty-First Century, Richard Bales & Charlotte Garden (Eds.), Cambridge University Press (2019).
Available at: https://scholarship.law.columbia.edu/faculty_scholarship/4258