CHAPTER 11 Union Membership and Collective Bargaining Membership

CHAPTER 11 Union Membership and Collective Bargaining

Membership in Five Labor Organizations, 1955– 1999 NOTE: UAW: United Automobile Workers IBEW: International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers AFSCME: American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees AFT: American Federation of Teachers IAFF: International Association of Fire Fighters SOURCE: Bureau of National Affairs, Directory of U. S. Labor Organizations (Washington, D. C. : BNA, various years). Figure 11. 1 2 © 2003 South-Western

The Demand Curve for Union Services Figure 11. 2 3 © 2003 South-Western

The Supply Curve of Union Services Figure 11. 3 4 © 2003 South-Western

The Equilibrium Level of Union Membership Figure 11. 4 5 © 2003 South-Western

Total Union Membership and Membership as a Percentage of Employment, 1930– 2001 NOTE: Figures exclude Canadian membership. Percentage of nonagricultural employment, 1930– 1976; percentage of total wage and salary employment, 1977– 2001. SOURCE: U. S. Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics, Handbook of Labor Statistics (December 1980), Table 165; Eva E. Jacobs, ed. , Handbook of U. S. Labor Statistics (Lanham, Md. : Bernan Press, 1998), p. 321; Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment and Earnings (January 2002). Figure 11. 5 6 © 2003 South-Western

The Time Path of Wage Demands in a Labor Negotiation SOURCE: Based on Gary A. Hall and William R. Schriver, “Bluffing in the Bargaining Process: An Empirical Test, ” Proceedings of the Thirtieth Annual Meeting (Madison, Wis. : IRRA, 1977): 286– 93. Figure 11. 6 7 © 2003 South-Western

The Contract Zone Figure 11. 7 8 © 2003 South-Western

Employer and Union Reaction Functions Figure 11. 8 9 © 2003 South-Western

Wage Determination in a Union and Nonunion Labor Market Figure 11. 9 10 © 2003 South-Western

The Occurrence of a Strike Figure 11. 10 11 © 2003 South-Western

Percentage of Employed Wage and Salary Workers Who are Members of and Are Represented by Industry, Gender, and Race, 2001 Source: Bureau of Labor Statistics, Employment and Earnings (January 2002), Tables 40, 42. Table 11. 1 12 © 2003 South-Western

Union Membership as a Percentage of All Workers by State, 2001 SOURCE: BLS News Release, Table 5 <http: //www. bls. gov/news. release/union 2. t 05. htm>. Figure 11. 11 13 © 2003 South-Western

The Effect of a Right-to-Work Law in Union Membership Figure 11. 12 14 © 2003 South-Western

Pattern of Strike Activity in the United States, 1947– 2001 SOURCE: Bureau of Labor Statistics, <http: //bls. gov/cba>; 2001 number does not include December. Figure 11. 13 15 © 2003 South-Western

An Increase in Strike Activity Due to Inflation Figure 11. 14 16 © 2003 South-Western

The Monopoly Union Model Wage Outcome Figure 11 A. 1 17 © 2003 South-Western

The Efficient Contract Wage Outcome Figure 11 A. 2 18 © 2003 South-Western

The Preferred Wage of the Median Voter Figure 11 A. 3 19 © 2003 South-Western

Wage Outcomes in the Monopoly, Efficient Contract, and Median Voter Models Figure 11 A. 4 20 © 2003 South-Western

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