Collective Bargaining in a Nonpartisan, Council-Manager City

Abstract

employees. But a much stronger motivation is the need of the employee to have a voice in determining the economic conditions under which he works and to have job security. The union movement in public employment has grown through the past twenty-five years to a position of strength, influence, and tates to provide proper pay, classification, and ersonnel procedures for their employees and y failure by many administrators to take into respons bility. In its building public employees are contributing much to the development of citizenship, to the preservation of democracy, and to social and economic justice for all of the people of the United States. Unions are a fundamental part of society and they are a fundamental part of government service, bringing order and system to what otherwise might well be chaos in the increasingly complex area of labor relations in government. sponsibility. In its building public emloy es are contributing much to the developent of c tizenship, to the preservation of ocracy, and t social and econom justice r all of the people of the Uni ed States. ions are a fundamental part of society and ey are a fundament l part of government rvice, bringing o der and system to what erwise might well be chaos in th increasly complex area of labor relations in gov-