More Than We Have Ever Known about Discipline and Discharge in Labor Arbitration
More Than We Have Ever Known about Discipline and Discharge in Labor Arbitration

Author: Laura J. Cooper

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 338

ISBN-13: 9781600424496

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"This book is based on the comprehensive analysis of a uniquely large data set of published and unpublished labor arbitration decisions in discharge and discipline cases. In great detail, its authors coded more than two thousand decisions issued over a twenty four year period. They provide a rich array of data describing multiple aspects of each decision's arbitrator, grievant, and other case characteristics. The book's overarching focus is the arbitrator's decision (who wins, who loses and why) including unique comparisons of outcomes in discharge, as compared to discipline cases, and in private, as compared to public, sector cases. The book also reports on the relationship between the type of employee offense and outcomes, and the effect of attorney representation on case outcomes. Other relationships to arbitration decision making examined by the authors include the independent effects of last chance agreements, quantum of proof standards, job tenure, and the much debated 'Seven Tests of Just Cause'"--Publisher's website.

Packinghouse Daughter
Packinghouse Daughter

Author: Cheri Register

Publisher: Minnesota Historical Society Press

Published: 2000

Total Pages: 296

ISBN-13: 9780873513913

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The violence that erupted when the company "replaced" its union workers with strikebreakers tested family loyalty and community stability, and attracted national attention when the governor of Minnesota called in the National Guard, declared martial law, and closed the plant. Register skillfully interweaves her own memories, historical research, and first-person interviews of participants on both sides of the strike into a narrative that is thoughtful and impassioned about the value of blue-collar work and the dignity of those who do it. Packinghouse Daughter also testifies to the hold that childhood experience has on personal values and notions of social class, despite the upward mobility that is the great promise of American democracy.