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Divided Unions - The Wagner Act, Federalism, and Organized Labor (Hardcover)
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Divided Unions - The Wagner Act, Federalism, and Organized Labor (Hardcover)
Series: American Governance: Politics, Policy, and Public Law
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A comparative history of public and private sector unions from the
Wagner Act of 1935 until today The 2011 battle in Wisconsin over
public sector employees' collective bargaining rights occasioned
the largest protests in the state since the Vietnam War. Protestors
occupied the state capitol building for days and staged massive
rallies in downtown Madison, receiving international news coverage.
Despite an unprecedented effort to oppose Governor Scott Walker's
bill, Act 10 was signed into law on March 11, 2011, stripping
public sector employees of many of their collective bargaining
rights and hobbling government unions in Wisconsin. By situating
the events of 2011 within the larger history of public sector
unionism, Alexis N. Walker demonstrates how the passage of Act 10
in Wisconsin was not an exceptional moment, but rather the
culmination of events that began over eighty years ago with the
passage of the Wagner Act in 1935. Although explicitly about
government unions, Walker's book argues that the fates of public
and private sector unions are inextricably linked. She contends
that the exclusion of public sector employees from the foundation
of private sector labor law, the Wagner Act, firmly situated
private sector law at the national level, while relegating public
sector employees' efforts to gain collective bargaining rights to
the state and local levels. She shows how private sector unions
benefited tremendously from the national-level protections in the
law while, in contrast, public sector employees' efforts progressed
slowly, were limited to union-friendly states, and the collective
bargaining rights that they finally did obtain were highly unequal
and vulnerable to retrenchment. As a result, public and private
sector unions peaked at different times, preventing a large,
unified labor movement. The legacy of the Wagner Act, according to
Walker, is that labor remains geographically concentrated, divided
by sector, and hobbled in its efforts to represent working
Americans politically in today's era of rising economic inequality.
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