TY - BOOK AU - Budd, John W. TI - Labor relations : : striking a balance SN - 978-0-07-110521-7 AV - 331.880973 B85l PY - 2010/// CY - New York PB - McGraw-Hill Irwin KW - Industrial relations KW - UNITED STATES N1 - Includes index; Contemporary Labor Relations: Objectives, Practices, and Challenges -- Labor Unions: Good or Bad? -- Historical Development -- Labor Law -- Labor and Management: Strategies, Structures, and Constraints -- Union Organizing -- Bargaining -- Impasse, Strikes, and Dispute Resolution -- Contract Clauses and Their Administration -- Issues for the 21st Century -- Flexibility, Empowerment, and Partnership -- Globalization -- Comparative Labor Relations -- What Should Labor Relations Do? N2 - Shows labor relations as a system for balancing employment relationship goals and the rights of labor and management. This title places the discussion of contemporary US processes into the context of underlying themes, such as what the goals of the system are, whether or not those goals are being fulfilled, and if reform is needed ER -