naa a22 4500 510740049 CHVBK 20180411083025.0 cr unu---uuuuu 180411e20130301xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s12122-012-9150-0 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s12122-012-9150-0 Managerial Hostility and Attitudes Towards Unions: A Canada-US Comparison [Elektronische Daten] [Michele Campolieti, Rafael Gomez, Morley Gunderson] We use a cross-country survey of attitudes toward work and unions, which includes a sample of managers in both the US and Canada, to explore whether there is greater attitudinal hostility to unions in the U.S. Our estimates indicate that American manager's attitudes towards unions are, perhaps surprisingly, less hostile than those of Canadian managers. We explain this first finding by the differential effect of perceived union power, which is greater in Canada than the US and which is correlated negatively with union approval. We also find that US managers are less likely to use extreme methods to oppose union organizing drives, implying that the lower union rates in the US as compared to Canada are not likely the result of greater negativity towards unions themselves but rather some other factor or combination of factors. The implication is that if Canadian managers faced the same labor relations playing field as their US counterparts, they would likely find it easier to thwart union certification drives as well. Alternatively stated, Canadian-style labor relations reforms (such as card-check systems or quicker certification votes) could perhaps tip the balance in favor of unions when organizing in the US. Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, 2012 Unions nationallicence Attitudes nationallicence Managerial opposition nationallicence Canada-US differences nationallicence Campolieti Michele Centre for Industrial Relations, University of Toronto, 121 St. George, Toronto, ON, Canada aut Gomez Rafael Centre for Industrial Relations, University of Toronto, 121 St. George, Toronto, ON, Canada aut Gunderson Morley Centre for Industrial Relations, University of Toronto, 121 St. George, Toronto, ON, Canada aut Journal of Labor Research Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 34/1(2013-03-01), 99-119 0195-3613 34:1<99 2013 34 12122 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12122-012-9150-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s12122-012-9150-0 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Campolieti Michele Centre for Industrial Relations, University of Toronto, 121 St. George, Toronto, ON, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Gomez Rafael Centre for Industrial Relations, University of Toronto, 121 St. George, Toronto, ON, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Gunderson Morley Centre for Industrial Relations, University of Toronto, 121 St. George, Toronto, ON, Canada aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Labor Research Springer US; http://www.springer-ny.com 34/1(2013-03-01), 99-119 0195-3613 34:1<99 2013 34 12122 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer