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The First Wave: Concession Bargaining in the 1980s

In: The New Collective Bargaining

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  • Gary Chaison

    (Clark University)

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During the first wave of concession bargaining, occurring in the 1980s, employers were reacting to the pressures of global competition, domestic nonunion competition, and deregulation by insisting that unions lower labor costs. New collective agreements frequently had wage cuts or freezes, changes in work rules, and reduced pensions. Concession bargaining became widespread in the airlines (among the older, legacy carriers losing in their competitive battles with the low-cost carriers) and in domestic auto making, and then spread to other industrial sectors. The first wave of concession bargaining eroded the foundations of the labor accord (the accommodation underlying the relationship between unions and employers), freeing employers to incite the ultra-concession bargaining that would appear around the turn of the next century.

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  • Gary Chaison, 2012. "The First Wave: Concession Bargaining in the 1980s," SpringerBriefs in Economics, in: The New Collective Bargaining, edition 127, chapter 0, pages 25-33, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:spbchp:978-1-4614-4024-6_3
    DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-4024-6_3
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