WHY FEDERAL GOVERNMENT EMPLOYEES JOIN UNIONS: A STUDY OF AFGE LOCAL 1138

LOUIS V. IMUNDO, JR.

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DOI: 10.2190/04EF-XUAK-JQKL-UWLM

Abstract

This paper describes a study made to determine whether government employees join unions for different reasons than workers in the private sector and whether white-collar and blue-collar workers' reasons for joining a union differ significantly. It was found that the sampled public sector workers joined for different reasons than did workers in private industry and that blue-and-white collar workers joined unions for substantially the same reasons.

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