Labor Law and Its Reform

Authors

Daniel J. Gifford, University of Minnesota Law SchoolFollow

Publication

Iowa Law Review

Volume

80

Page

201

Year

1994

Abstract

U.S. private sector unionism is in decline. From a high watermark in 1953 of around 35.7% of the private nonagricultural workforce, union membership has fallen to 11.5% and unions represent under 13% of private sector workers. 1 Absent reform of the labor relations system, the trend is clear. Unions will remain a significant force in government employment, big-city commercial construction, rail and air transportation, and certain shrinking mining and manufacturing industries. Aside from these pockets of unionism, however, workplace-based representation of the interests of working people will become a distinctly marginal phenomenon in our society.

Comments

Review Essay: reviewing William B. Gould, Agenda for Reform: The Future of Employment Relationships and the Law (MIT Press, 1993).

Recommended Citation

Daniel J. Gifford, Labor Law and Its Reform, 80 Iowa L. Rev. 201 (1994), available at https://scholarship.law.umn.edu/faculty_articles/321.