TY  - JOUR
AU  - Appelbaum, Eileen
AU  - Hunter, Larry W
TI  - Union Participation in Strategic Decisions of Corporations
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 9590
PY  - 2003
Y2  - March 2003
DO  - 10.3386/w9590
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w9590
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w9590.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
eileen appelbaum
E-Mail: eappelba@rci.rutgers.edu

Larry W. Hunter
M1  - published as Eileen Appelbaum, Larry W. Hunter. "Union Participation in Strategic Decisions of Corporations," in Richard B. Freeman, Joni Hersch and Lawrence Mishel, editors, "Emerging Labor Market Institutions for the Twenty-First Century" University of Chicago Press (2005)

AB  - This paper reviews workforce participation in strategic decisions - those that affect the basic direction of the company - when workforce interests are represented collectively through unions. We consider the problem of corporate governance and review the rationale for what we term  strategic partnerships' between management and labor.  The paper describes the prevalence of such partnerships in the U.S., focusing on two institutions through which unions have engaged in discussion of strategic issues: negotiated union-management partnership agreements, and union representation on corporate boards.  We offer detailed accounts of specific strategic partnerships and of union involvement on corporate boards, showing that unions face a range of challenges in constructing partnerships that extend possibilities for effective representations of workers' interests.
ER  -