Professor Emeritus Robert Hebdon has co-authored an article for the London School of Economics and Political Science, analyzing the response and performance of unions on Twitter during the Fight for $15 (FF$15) wage campaign.
The authors looked at unions’ patterns of communication, endorsement, and social media content in the context of the FF$15 Twitter campaign to see if they were able to emerge as opinion leaders, and to highlight ways of improving social media strategies.
Roughly 3,300 striking engineers and conductors at Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd. are headed back to work, but experts say serial government intervention is making future strikes more likely. The workers abruptly ended a two-day strike Monday, after CP and the Teamsters union agreed to arbitration, just as the federal government was poised to order them back on the job.
... “It chills bargaining,” explained Robert Paul Hebdon, an organizational behaviour professor at McGill University’s Desautels business school. “It becomes institutionalized.”
The Supreme Court of Canada has ruled that Walmart violated Quebec’s labour code when it closed a store in Jonquiere, Quebec after workers tried to unionize it.
Authors: Campolieti, Michele; Hebdon, Robert; Dachis, Benjamin
Publication: British Journal of Industrial Relations
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Authors: Campolieti, Michele; Hebdon, Robert; Dachis, Benjamin
Publication: Industrial Relations: A Journal of Economy and Society
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Author: Hebdon, Robert
Publication: Nevada Law Journal
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A paper by professor Robert Hebdon and PhD student Sung Chul Noh has been judged by the reviewers to be one of the best accepted papers in the 2013 Academy of Management Meeting. This high honor entitles the paper to be published in the Best Paper Proceedings of the 2013 Academy of Management Meeting. The paper is titled: "Unbundling Workplace Conflict: Developing A Theory Of Conflict Mobilization."
