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• What was the most interesting topic from this module, somethingyou want to know more about?
• Was there anything in the module that left you with specificquestions you feel work not answered by the material?
• Was there something in the module that you felt wasmisrepresented or that runs counter to your personal experiencewith either business or unions?

Modules Topic

Outline of Key Contents ? Why unions remain insecure asinstitutions and what they have and haven’t been able to do aboutthis insecurity ?

Right-to-work laws and why unions don’t like them ?

How the dues checkoff arrangement works in practice and why mostemployers and unions haven’t made it a crucial point of controversy?

Obligations that labor contracts impose on unions ?

Why employers often want “management rights” clauses and whysome people think that such clauses aren’t necessary ?

The two quite different theories of management rights: residualand trusteeship ?

Why, although common in some other countries, codeterminationhas been very rare in the United States, and why this lattersituation may finally be changing ?

Why unions have historically resisted both employee stockownership plans and quality of work life programs and why thesestances, too, may at last be changing