Union Organizing and Collective Bargaining at a Critical Moment: Opportunities for Renewal or Continued Decline?

Paul F. Clark is a professor of labor and employment relations at Penn State. His research interests include employment relations in the US healthcare industry; union structure, government, and administration; union member commitment and participation; and new union member orientation and socialization. He is the author of four books, including Building More Effective Unions. His research has appeared in leading scholarly journals in industrial and labor relations and applied psychology. Clark regularly teaches undergraduate and graduate courses on employment relations. CHad personlark has worked with unions in Pennsylvania and around the United States on labor education programs and research projects for over 35 years.

John T. Delaney is vice president for academic affairs at Saint Vincent College. He has served in a variety of university administrative positions since 1996. Delaney is an expert in business education, with a background in labor-management relations, especially public sector labor relations and dispute resolution. He has written extensively on collective bargaining, negotiations, dispute resolution, and union political action as well as issues related to ethics in business. Delaney has given expert testimony to the National Labor Relations Board and the Subcommittee on Labor of the U.S. Senate Committee on Labor and Human Resources.

Howard R. Stanger is a professor of management in the Wehle School of Business, Canisius University. His research has focused on historical and contemporary labor relations in printing, newspapers, and digital media. Stanger also has published articles and book chapters on Buffalo’s Larkin Company, employers’ associations, and other business and labor history topics. This is his third contribution (2002, 2013, and 2024) to IRRA’s/LERA’s annual research volume on industry-focused collective bargaining.