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A Yo-Yo Model of Cooperation: Union Participation in Management at the Rath Packing Company

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  • Tove H. Hammer
  • Robert N. Stern

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The authors hypothesize that union leaders who enter into union-management cooperative programs alternate between cooperative and adversarial behavior: they agree to cooperate in order to avert corporate ruin or obtain benefits, but revert to their adversarial view of labor-management relations when cooperation incurs costs to the union or threatens their control of union members. Analysis of union-management collaboration at the Rath Packing Company between 1978 and 1985 shows that during the life of that program, the union leaders withdrew from and returned to collaboration three times, in response to changes in the cost to the union of continued participation.

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  • Tove H. Hammer & Robert N. Stern, 1986. "A Yo-Yo Model of Cooperation: Union Participation in Management at the Rath Packing Company," ILR Review, Cornell University, ILR School, vol. 39(3), pages 337-349, April.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:ilrrev:v:39:y:1986:i:3:p:337-349
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    1. McKersie, Robert B. & Kochan, Thomas A., 1987. "The changing role of union leaders," Working papers 1964-87., Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Sloan School of Management.
    2. Morley Gunderson & Jeffrey Sack & James McCartney & David Wakely & Jonathan Eaton, 1995. "Employee Buyouts in Canada," British Journal of Industrial Relations, London School of Economics, vol. 33(3), pages 417-442, September.
    3. David G. Meyer & William N. Cooke, 1993. "US Labour Relations in Transition: Emerging Strategies and Company Performance," British Journal of Industrial Relations, London School of Economics, vol. 31(4), pages 531-552, December.
    4. Ariel C. Avgar & Julie Anna Sadler & Paul Clark & Wonjoon Chung, 2016. "Labor–Management Partnership and Employee Voice: Evidence from the Healthcare Setting," Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 55(4), pages 576-603, October.

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