Open shops, closed minds shut out organized labor. (interview with Prof. Clark Ross)(Interview)

From: Business North Carolina | Date: December 1, 1996 | Copyright information

Clark Ross is chairman of the economics department at Davidson College. He earned his Ph.D. in economics from Boston College, where he wrote his dissertation on union wage changes. Here he takes a look at the low rate of unionization in North Carolina.

BNC: The Bureau of National Affairs Inc. reports there were 132,200 union members in North Carolina in 1995, just 4.2% of employees. Why so low?

There are four or five reasons. Economists have difficulty isolating th...

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