TY  - JOUR
AU  - Farber,Henry S.
TI  - Trends in Worker Demand for Union Representation
JF  - National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper Series
VL  - No. 2857
PY  - 1989
Y2  - February 1989
UR  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w2857
L1  - http://www.nber.org/papers/w2857.pdf
N1  - Author contact info:
Henry S. Farber
Industrial Relations Section
Firestone Library
Princeton University
Princeton, NJ 08544-2098
Tel: 609/258-4044
Fax: 609/258-2907
E-Mail: farber@princeton.edu
AB  - The dramatic decline in the demand for union representation among nonunion workers over the last decade is investigated using data on worker preferences for union representation from four surveys conducted in 1977, 1980, 1982, and 1984. Relatively little of the decline can be accounted for by shifts in labor force structure. However, virtually all of the decline is correlated with an increase in the satisfaction of nonunion workers with their jobs and a decline in nonunion workers' beliefs that unions are able to improve wages and working conditions.
ER  -