Staff and the lecturers have claimed that industrial relations at the college have deteriorated every since.
Gary Chaison, the industrial relations professor, says workers recognized that the U.S. auto industry is fundamentally changing.
Krishna Murthy, director of the Industrial Relations Institute of India believes Japanese companies have an anachronistic attitude.
His memories of 1930s unemployment may have done as much to form his views on industrial relations.
But that image is growing stale, according to Ruth Milkman, the director of UCLA's Institute of Industrial Relations.
His plan also focuses on support for victims and witnesses, rehabilitation of offenders, improved communication and industrial relations.
Just as that proved to be a turning-point in Britain's dreadful industrial relations, so may Australia's waterfront battle.
Its corporatist industrial relations, for instance, help companies hold wages down, but they can also be bad for shareholders.
Another response is to ditch adversarial industrial relations in favour of greater co-operation.
The new deal would also include a review of AWE's pay system and a promise to address industrial relations issues.
The arbitrary powers of the National Labor Relations Board serve to politicize industrial relations and to create antagonism where none need arise.
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Gary Chaison, who teaches industrial relations at Clark University in Worcester, Mass.
The announcements follow what RMT general secretary Bob Crow described as "the total collapse of industrial relations across a whole raft of matters".
"This alarmist survey is more about a firm of lawyers touting for business than an objective look at industrial relations, " a TUC spokeswoman said.
John Gennard, a professor of industrial relations at Strathclyde University, reckons that low unemployment in the 1970s was a bigger factor in strengthening unions.
The government has proposed to slaughter a sacred cow of industrial relations a law permitting courts to order the rehiring, with compensation, of sacked workers.
The union in return has agreed to restore goodwill in working arrangements within the prisons and to enter into talks on new industrial relations procedures.
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Many states have Departments of Industrial Relations, OSHA agencies, and more.
But the prime culprits for industrial decline are the politicisation of land tenure, which makes it hard for firms to get space, and dreadful industrial relations.
Notwithstanding Britain's popularity as a destination for inward investment, many foreign businessmen still think the British economy is hamstrung by high inflation and bad industrial relations.
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They said that such a process might pave the way for "radical change" in the way that NIPS is managed and how its industrial relations are handled.
Economists from the Institute of Industrial Relations at the University of California, Berkeley, studied San Francisco restaurant employment after the city adopted its own higher minimum in 2004.
Most attention focussed on the duo of Wayne Swan and Stephen Smith, both from the right, who will handle the crucial issues of economic policy and industrial relations.
Hence, the company's desire to cut costs might have pushed forward the closure of the Ryton factory, though strained industrial relations may also have played a part, observers say.
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He was the Manager of Industrial Relations for Keystone Shipping Company from 1996 to 2003, and was Vice President of Operations for the Sea Line Company from 1987 to 1988.
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This meant that much of what the government wanted to do reform Australia's archaic system of industrial relations, privatise Telstra, its telecoms monopolist, change its media laws was blocked, abandoned or never even started.
Gregor Gall, professor of industrial relations at Hertfordshire University, says the fact this dispute is taking place in the public sector makes having the man on the street onside even more important.
Guan Kaiyuan, a 22-year-old law student at the China Institute of Industrial Relations in Beijing, had pointed out that Prof Kong's self-composed Tang Dynasty-style poem on his microblog did not rhyme correctly.
Firms hit by strike action in the last few months include South West Trains, carmaker Vauxhall, and post office operator Consignia, which in June warned that jobs would go unless industrial relations improved.
She has come under increasing pressure from investors over the company's share price, which has fallen by a third this year, and the deteriorating industrial relations at its platinum operations in South Africa.
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