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The authors know them as the Millennial Generation, Generation Y, or the Nexters Generation; and they have been the topic of much controversy recently. A new era has begun in the American workplace. Namely, the authors of this study refer to have four distinctly different generations in the workplace at the same time. Organizations that manage and overcome the challenges ahead will be at the forefront of their industries, and their firm's performance will supersede the competition by leaps, and bounds. The problem is the literature is almost devoid of any literature in the past ten (10) years on this subject. This study is an investigation that attempts to uncover the reasons of why Millennials do not join unions. Furthermore, this is an exploration, of the implications of understanding (or not understanding) these underlying causes; and how it will affect organizations' human capital and their future performance. Keywords: Millennials, unions, employee relationships, INTRODUCTION 'Each generation will reap what the former generation has sown' (Chinese Proverb). As exploration on this topic, for which much research is still required; it is clear that what [...]

The Classical School of economics is generally credited with providing the ideological foundation for the study of labor unions in the United States. In particular, one passage from Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations is believed to be the catalyst for the systematic study of organized labor. Smith and other classical economists wrote extensively of 'labor's disadvantage' with capital, which allowed for unfair negotiations between workers and management. In this paper, we suggest that, although Adam Smith was the first economist to identify the problems that labor has in its dealings with management, he did not offer a truly theoretical explanation for these difficulties. The economist who first studied the labor/capital nexus from an economic perspective was John Stuart Mill. Mill's pioneering treatment of labor and capital provided an economic justification for the existence of labor unions., I. Introduction Labor unions in the United States have, at times, felt obliged to justify their existence. In contrast to labor unions in Europe, which have a long history dating [...]

Within labor economics, it is a stylized fact that unions exert a positive influence on both wages and fringe benefits. Although most of the literature focuses on the union--non-union wage [...]

A recent study by the Pew Research Center explores Americans' views of labor unions and of the 30-year decline of union membership rates. The report, titled "Mixed views of impact [...]

Christopher R. Bollinger [*] Broad variation in estimates of the union wage gap has perplexed labor economists. One specification error that is consistent with the observed variation is measurement error [...]