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Unionism in State and Local Governments: Ohio and Illinois, 1982‐87
Author(s) -
HINDMAN HUGH D.,
PATTON DAVID B.
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
industrial relations: a journal of economy and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.61
H-Index - 57
eISSN - 1468-232X
pISSN - 0019-8676
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-232x.1994.tb00329.x
Subject(s) - legislation , local government , state (computer science) , census , collective bargaining , government (linguistics) , state government , public administration , economics , public sector , political science , labour economics , law , sociology , demography , population , linguistics , philosophy , algorithm , computer science
Census of Governments (COG) data for 1982 and 1987 were analyzed to assess growth in state and local government unionism in Ohio and Illinois, two states that enacted comprehensive public employee bargaining legislation in 1983. Against a backdrop of stable state and local government unionism across the United States, Ohio and Illinois recorded substantial gains in certain sectors. The greatest gains were observed in sectors that had been only lightly unionized prior to enactment of law. Laws had much less impact on more heavily unionized sectors. In spite of the gains, Ohio and Illinois remain substantially less unionized, on average, than do states that enacted comprehensive bargaining legislation earlier.