Labor Relations: Collective Bargaining

You can combine keywords to help narrow your search results.

Along with collective bargaining, you can use any of these keywords in your search:

athletes
budgets
company name (for ex. Wal-Mart)
compensation
contract negotiations
employment security
health insurance
industry name(for ex. banking industry)
labor unions
labor contracts
labor demand
lockouts
polls & surveyss
reforms
state employees
strikes
studies
surveys
wages & salaries
working conditions

Searching by Title to Narrow Search Results:
In EBSCO Business Source Elite you can narrow your search by using a title search: TI collective bargaining.
Ti stands for title; you will be searching for the words, collective bargaining, in the title.
You can use the and operator in the search: TI collective bargaining and compensation.

In ProQuest ABI/Inform Compete you can enter a title search like this:  ti(collective bargaining).You can also add additional terms:  type ti(collective bargaining) and wages & salaries. Here you are searching for the words, collective bargaining, in the title, and you are searching for wages & salaries anywhere in the document.

When you need the most current business information, turn to FACTIVA.

Here are the steps for easy searching:

Click on the Search link at thel top of the page.
Type hd= followed by your search terms. Hd stands for headline;
you will be searching for  headlines or titles with  those keywords.

For example:

hd=collective bargaining

Tying hd=collective bargaining and auto workers will find articles with collective bargaining in the headline and the words auto workers in the text of the article.

Select a date range.

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