An introduction to the current state of workers' rights / Richard N. Block, Sheldon Friedman, Michelle Kaminski, and Andy Levin -- A logical extreme : proposing human rights as the foundation for workers' rights in the United States / James A. Gross -- International elections standards and NLRB representation elections / David L. Cingranelli -- Collective bargaining rights in the public sector : promises and reality / Donald S. Wasserman -- Significant victories : an analysis of union first contracts / Tom Juravich, Kate Bronfenbrenner, and Robert Hickey / -- Bad service jobs : can unions save them? can they save unions? / Laura Dresser and Annette Bernhardt -- Dancing with the smoke monster : employer motivations for negotiating neutrality and card check agreements / Adrienne E. Eaton and Jill Kriesky -- Supreme Court supervisory status decisions : the impact on the organizing of nurses / Steven E. Abraham, Adrienne E. Eaton, and Paula B. Voos -- Law and collective bargaining power : an experiment to test labor law reform proposals / Gangaram Singh and Ellen Dannin -- America's union-free movement in light of international human rights standards / Roy J. Adams -- The United States and ILO conventions 87 and 98 : the freedom of association and the right to bargain collectively / Richard McIntyre and Matthew M. Bodah -- Members-only collective bargaining : a back-to-basics approach to union organizing / Charles J. Morris -- The commercial temp agency, the union hiring hall, and the contingent workforce : toward a legal reclassification of for-profit labor market intermediaries / Harris Freeman and George Gonos -- No more business as usual : using pension activism to protect workers' rights / Jayne Elizabeth Zanglein.