Facing the Oil Giants: Labor Bargaining in the 1990s

Abstract

Now I'd like to turn to the energy and oil industries. On the demand side, as always, a serious recession like the present one means stagnant demand for energy and oil. In the last three years, overall U.S. energy consumption has increased by less than half a percent a year, while oil consumption has actually decreased at about the same rate.

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