RT Article
T1 The influence of collective bargaining on large police agency salaries: 1990–2000
JF American journal of criminal justice
VO 31
IS 1
SP 19
OP 34
A1 Wilson, Steve
A2 Zhao, Jihong
A2 Ren, Ling
A2 Briggs, Steven
LA English
YR 2006
UL https://krimdok.uni-tuebingen.de/Record/1764275217
AB Collective bargaining between police management and unions is an important process that determines many aspects of police work, particularly the monetary benefits for line officers like salary and fringe benefits. Working with limited budgets, police administrators who engage in collective bargaining are obligated to negotiate with union representatives over wage benefits while attempting to maintain adequate financial resources toward other police operations. Though students of policing learn that police unions try very hard to increase economic reward for their members there is limited research on the effectiveness of their efforts. Since economic benefits are the primary focus of police unions, it is important; therefore, to evaluate the impact that collective bargaining has on salaries earned by police personnel. This study examines this issue by combining four waves of the Law Enforcement Management and Administration Statistics for the period 1990–2000. Pooled time series analyses reveal that large organizations that engaged in collective bargaining had higher minimum wages for officers during the period. As predicted, collective bargaining did not affect minimum chief’s salaries.
K1 Fiscal Capacity
K1 Police Chief
K1 Police Union
K1 Collective Bargaining
K1 Police Officer
DO 10.1007/BF02885682