Article,
The Integration of Seniority Lists in Transportation Mergers
Industrial & labor relations review, 16 (3): 343-365 (April 1963)M3: Article.
Abstract
The continuing encrustation of the employment relationship with accumulated job rights and fringe benefits and an apparently increasing rate of displacement have added to the competitive drive for seniority status. In recent years, collective bargaining agreements have added more formal provisions designed to clarify the role of management and union in seniority disputes. Yet employee competition for job security by means of seniority probably creates more serious internal problems for unions than for management. Grave difficulties are frequently encountered when it becomes necessary, because of business mergers, to pool two or more previously separate groups of employees under a single seniority system. The incidence of business mergers has been particularly high in the transportation industries in recent years. The authors of this study detail the varying and complex arrangements which have been made in efforts to integrate seniority lists in railroad, airline, and trucking mergers. They show that this has been principally an internal union problem, the solution to which is affected by such factors as level of employment, and the age, nature, and structure of the unions involved.
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- &
- consolidation
- corporations;
- employee;
- industry;
- job
- management;
- merger
- of
- personnel
- security
- seniority,
- transportation
