Sectoral Bargaining in the United States

Abstract

Because of the virtual demise of firm centered collective bargaining, many labor partisans have rediscovered a form of wage determination originating in the Progressive Era. Sectoral bargaining encompasses an effort to win better conditions in an entire occupation or industry. Instead of a collective bargaining contract, standard-setting laws or codes are enacted, either by the legislature or a state board that sets wages and working conditions once all the stakeholders have had their say. Just as civil rights laws apply to all US workplaces regardless of the attitude of workers or employers, so too would a wage board promulgate a set of work standards that are equally universal, at least within the industry and region over which the board has jurisdiction.

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