摘要:The problems/need for representation and participation reported by workers vary
across workplaces and by types of jobs. Workers with greater workplace needs are
more desirous of unions but their preferences are fine-grained. Workers want
unions to negotiate wages and work conditions and for protection but do not see
unions as helping them progress in their careers. Many workers see no major
workplace problems that would impel them to form or join unions. Unionism raises
reported problems while firm-based non-union channels of voice reduce reported
problems, but unions that work effectively with management and those that have
sufficient strength to be taken seriously by management reduce the number of
problems at union workplaces.