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Social workers and labor relations in the public sector: the Missouri Department of Social Services and the Communication Workers of America.
Abstract
A study attempts to explore the relationship between public-sector social workers and labor unions by analyzing the Communications Workers of America and the Missouri Department of Social Services. As part of that examination, the study provides a brief demographic sketch of public employee unionism, analyzes the conditions leading to the unionization of Department of Social Services workers, and attempts to investigate the relationship between politics and public-sector unionism. Key principles that affect unionized social workers in the public sector are examined. A discussion notes that labor-management relations in the public sector are too often characterized by bitterness and conflict instead of joint strategies based on creative solutions to state welfare problems. If labor relations in the public sector are to become more amiable, a new labor-management paradigm of mutual trust and cooperation must emerge. (Journal abstract, edited.)
Journal
(1988)
vol12
no1
pages41-54
Categories
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Personnel
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Personnel Management
