In recent years, issues pertaining to graduate student union organizing have been at the center of several political battles and court cases. This attention is, at least in part, due to the growth of graduate student unions at a time when organized labor's influence is receding in other, more traditionally unionized sectors of the labor force. As…

The Bay Area Employer Policy Survey was designed to gather comprehensive data on employer policies and practices and to undertake an extensive analysis of variations in practices by industry size and other characteristics. The San Jose Metropolitan Area and the five-county San Francisco-Oakland Area were included in the study. A sample of 300…

An experimental and demonstration project was conducted over a five-year period in California to test the concept of lay-off time training to enable workers to qualify for promotion and increase their earnings. The canning industry was found to be a suitable area for this type of training since it had annual lay-offs followed by assured recalls to…