THE IMPACT OF LABOR-MANAGEMENT COOPERATION COMMITTEES ON PERSONNEL POLICIES AND PRACTICES AT TWENTY FEDERAL BARGAINING UNITS
GEORGE T. SULZNER
DOI: 10.2190/YF8G-CJ69-VY56-HL1G
Abstract
Joint labor-management committees are thought of increasingly as vehicles for dealing effectively with problems of government productivity and service delivery. At the federal level, joint general purpose cooperation committees seem to have the most potential for performing a problem-solving function in these areas of concern. However, they are rare (only one in four bargaining units have them) and seem to be influential only in large units which represent a vary small fraction of the total federal labor-management settings. Moreover, similarly with joint committees at other levels of government and in the private sector, they appear to be more effective in dealing with issues that do not threaten the adversarial positions of the parties.
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