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Public Sector Bargaining Laws Really Matter: Evidence from Ohio and Illinois

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A generation ago, America had two starkly different legal policies governing collective bargaining and union activity-one for employees of the government and another for employees of private corporations. The erosion of this difference, as more and more states have enacted public sector bargaining laws patterned after the National Labor Re- lations Act (NLRA), is one of the most important developments in American labor law since 1947. These important legal changes, how- ever, came as a surprise to most industrial relations scholars, and they have not been fully explained even retrospectively. I Two states, in particular, confounded general models of legal policy- making in public sector labor relations: Ohio and Illinois. They were exceptions for two reasons. First, although both were industrialized, highly unionized states located in the North, neither had a statute granting public employees the right to bargain. (The other states lacking such statutes, e.g., Mississippi, North Carolina, and Utah, were gen- erally more conservative states located in the South or the Rocky Mountains.) Kochan (1973, 336-37) noted that the lack of bargaining laws in Ohio and Illinois was anomalous even in the early 1970s, when many states lacked such laws.

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: ., 1988

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1-41

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0-226-26166-2

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