Threat of unionization and nonunion employment

Rest Unemployment and Unionization∗

This paper examines the impact of unions on unemployment and wages in a dynamic equilibrium search model. Unions impose a minimum wage on employers and ration jobs to ensure that their most senior members are employed. A minimum wage policy is optimal for a utilitarian union that cares equally about its employed and unemployed members. The combination of a minimum wage and rationing by seniorit...

AIDS, employment, and the direct threat defense: the burden of proof and the circuit court split.

This Note examines disability-related discrimination in light of the protections afforded by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) and in the context of an HIV- or AIDS-infected employee. Under the ADA, an employer may legally fire a worker who poses a direct threat to the individuals around him or her. It is unclear, however, whether the burden of proving or disproving the claim that an in...

Trends in unionization of nursing homes.

Unionization may have important implications for the delivery of nursing home care, but little is known about this phenomenon. Since 1985, the proportion of nursing home workers covered by union contracts declined from 14.6% to 9.9%. The first national-scale data on facility-level unionization reveals that unions are more common in nursing homes with more residents, in hospital-based or chain-a...

"Causes of Unionization in Canadian Banks"

Infected nonunion of tibia

Infected nonunions of tibia pose many challenges to the treating surgeon and the patient. Challenges include recalcitrant infection, complex deformities, sclerotic bone ends, large bone gaps, shortening, and joint stiffness. They are easy to diagnose and difficult to treat. The ASAMI classification helps decide treatment. The nonunion severity score proposed by Calori measures many parameters t...