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			<JournalTitle>Journal of Collective Negotiations (formerly Journal of Collective Negotiations in the Public Sector)</JournalTitle>
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				<VolumeNumber>8</VolumeNumber>
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						<CoverDate Year="1979" Month="3" Day="1"/>
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						<ArticleDOI>10.2190/MURW-VDHX-RFVR-HYL0</ArticleDOI>
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						<ArticleTitle Language="En">STATE AND LOCAL PUBLIC EMPLOYEE LABOR RELATIONS--WHERE ARE THEY HEADED?</ArticleTitle>
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							<RegistrationDate>20020509</RegistrationDate>
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								<GivenName>KENNETH A. KOVACH</GivenName>
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						<Abstract Language="En">The author presents an overview of the history, current status, and trends in state and local employee unionism, and the laws relating to bargaining in these sectors. He concludes that state and local laws and practices are following the pattern of federal public-sector labor relations, which were based on the private-sector.</Abstract>
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