Coercive Bargaining
Public Sector Restructuring under the Ontario Social Contract, 1993-1996
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3336767 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Bob Hebdon (Cornell University, corresponding author), Peter Warrian (0000-0001-5945-4486, University of Toronto, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 52 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 196-212 |
| Publication date | 1999-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Industrial and Labor Relations Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0019-7939 • E-ISSN: 2162-271X |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1177/001979399905200203 |
| OpenAlex | W2007753891 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 11 |
Economic restructuring, which is difficult to engineer even in the private sector, poses particularly serious challenges in highly unionized public sector environments. In 1993, the Ontario New Democratic Party government, which relied on labor support and was committed to collective bargaining, enacted the “Social Contract,” a bill that mandated spending reductions. The Social Contract has been widely criticized for failing to obtain a negotiated consensus between labor and management. This analysis of data from a survey of 1,225 employers finds, however, that the law, as administered, succeeded not only in preserving key elements of collective bargaining and an open and accountable relationship between management and labor, but also in giving those elements a positive role in economic restructuring. The authors conclude that creatively altering the collective bargaining process remains a viable economic restructuring policy option in jurisdictions with highly unionized public sectors
Business · Collective bargaining · Contract management · Democracy · Economic growth · Economics · Economy · Government (linguistics) · Labour economics · Labour law · Management · Market economy · Political science · Politics · Private sector · Public sector · Restructuring · Social contract · Canadian Policy and Governance · Finance · Housing, Finance, and Neoliberalism · Labor Movements and Unions · Law · Public Administration
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,11 |
| Citation span | 2017 - 2017 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |