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Article 1

Ferris, F., & Hyde, A. C. (2004). Federal labor-management relations for the next century—Or the last?: The case of the Department of Homeland Security. Review of Public Personnel Administration, 24, 216–233.

Abstract:

• In determining the future for 175,000 excepted civil servants, the new Department of Homeland Security (DHS) human resources management (HRM) system must accommodate more than 20 different bargaining units representing many DHS employees.
• The article assesses the political challenges and opportunities involved and advocates four strategic change areas: (a) removing delay from the labor-management weapons arsenal, (b) reengineering the dispute process, (c) depoliticizing the labor relations and impasse regulators, and (d) rediscovering relationships in federal labor-management relations.

Article 2

Garrick, J. (2014). Repurposing American labor law: Immigrant workers, worker centers, and the National Labor Relations Act. Politics & Society, 42, 489–512.

Abstract:

• In the absence of reform, many U.S. labor unions try to avoid the NLRA process altogether by organizing workers outside the confines of the law.
• A substantial body of literature documents the perils of the low-wage labor market in The contemporary United States. These include falling wages, rising insecurity, and an epidemic of underground and illegal employment in blue- and pink-collar occupations in particular. While almost all low-wage workers are at risk of abuse by unscrupulous employers, undocumented workers are particularly vulnerable, and the most comprehensive study undertaken to date thus identified a “high prevalence of workplace violations among unauthorized immigrants” in the country’s largest cities