Public sector labor- management relations: Change or status quo?

Review of Public Personnel Administration

Volumn 30, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 89-111

  Kearney, Richard C ^a  

^a NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Collective bargaining; Public employees; Unions

Indexed keywords

EID: 77749304995     PISSN: 0734371X     EISSN: 1552759X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0734371X09351827     Document Type: Article

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