Worker‐organization goal misalignment and support for collective action
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 21739565 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Megan Burns (Northwestern University, corresponding author), Megan E Burns (Department of Psychology Northwestern University Evanston Illinois USA), Michael W Kraus (0000-0001-6320-4965, Northwestern University) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Publication date | 2025-12-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Analyses of Social Issues and Public Policy (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1529-7489 • E-ISSN: 1530-2415 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1111/asap.70044 |
| OpenAlex | W4417483049 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 42 |
As workplace inequality persists, understanding the psychological processes motivating collective action engagement becomes imperative. In one domain of collective action, labor unionization, membership in the United States has continuously declined since the 1980s. Despite this decline, recent surveys suggest that pro‐union sentiment is rising. Amid workplace inequity and rising public interest in unionization, we draw from research on collective action and organizational identification to examine whether exposure to worker‐organization conflict and information about unions changes how workers evaluate existing and novel organizational grievance procedures, and consequently, increases pro‐union sentiment. Across four studies ( N = 3,143), we find that exposure to workplace conflicts and information about unions reduces workers’ perceived alignment with organizational grievance procedures and increases pro‐union attitudes, relative to control conditions where participants are not exposed to information about unions. These findings have implications for employee wellbeing and for the psychological processes implicated in collective action organizing
Collective action · Grievance · Inequality · Organizational identification · Conflict Management and Negotiation · Labor Movements and Unions · Nursing Education, Practice, and Leadership
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |