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• What was the most interesting topic from this module, something you want to know more about?
• Was there anything in the module that left you with specific questions you feel work not answered by the material?
• Was there something in the module that you felt was misrepresented or that runs counter to your personal experience with either business or unions?

Modules Topic

Outline of Key Contents Why unions remain insecure as institutions and what they have and havent been able to do about this insecurity

Right-to-work laws and why unions dont like them

How the dues checkoff arrangement works in practice and why most employers and unions havent made it a crucial point of controversy

Obligations that labor contracts impose on unions

Why employers often want management rights clauses and why some people think that such clauses arent necessary

The two quite different theories of management rights: residual and trusteeship

Why, although common in some other countries, codetermination has been very rare in the United States, and why this latter situation may finally be changing

Why unions have historically resisted both employee stock ownership plans and quality of work life programs and why these stances, too, may at last be changing