The Effectiveness of Reinstatement as a Public Policy Remedy: The Kohler Case

This article is concerned with two aspects of the NLRB reinstatement remedy as applied in the famous Kohler case: (1) how effective the remedy was, particularly in terms of the number of employees who returned to Kohler under its protection, and (2) what factors, in order of significance, affected a worker\u27s decision to return. The authors find the remedy was effective, since about 40 percent of those workers who received reinstatement offers accepted them. Regression and discriminant analyses of the variables affecting the decision to return confirm the thinking of labor market economists that the most disadvantaged worker (lower paid, older, less educated, less skilled, married, with children and with a nonworking wife) was most likely to return to a Kohler job. Recommendations are offered for improving the efficacy of the reinstatement remedy, with emphasis on adding a penalty cost to its back-pay feature

Kohler v. The Industrial Commission of Utah : Brief of Respondent

REBA KOHLER, Widow of Harry L, Kohler, deceased, Plaintiff-Appellant, vs. THE INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION OF UTAH, MIDWAY CITY and STATE INSURANCE FUND, Defendants-Respondents. Case No. 1450

Kohler v. The Industrial Commission of Utah : Brief of Appellee

REBA KOHLER, Widow of Harry L. Kohler, deceased, Plaintiff vs. THE INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION OF UTAH, MIDWAY CITY and STATE INSURANCE FUND, Defendants Case No. 1450

Kohler v. The Industrial Commission of Utah : Brief of Appellee

REBA KOHLER, Widow of Harry L. Kohler, deceased, Plaintiff vs. THE INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION OF UTAH, MIDWAY CITY and STATE INSURANCE FUND, Defendants Case No. 1450

Kohler v. The Industrial Commission of Utah : Brief of Respondent

REBA KOHLER, Widow of Harry L. Kohler, deceased, Plaintiff - Appellant , vs. THE INDUSTRIAL COMMISSION OF UTAH, MIDWAY CITY and STATE INSURANCE FUND Defendants - Respondents . Case No, 1450

Turkish /h/ deletion : evidence for the interplay of speech perception and phonology

It has been hypothesized that sounds which are less perceptible are more likely to be altered than more salient sounds, the rationale being that the loss of information resulting from a change in a sound which is difficult to perceive is not as great as the loss resulting from a change in a more salient sound. Kohler (1990) suggested that the tendency to reduce articulatory movements is countered by perceptual and social constraints, finding that fricatives are relatively resistant to reduction in colloquial German. Kohler hypothesized that this is due to the perceptual salience of fricatives, a hypothesis which was supported by the results of a perception experiment by Hura, Lindblom, and Diehl (1992). These studies showed that the relative salience of speech sounds is relevant to explaining phonological behavior. An additional factor is the impact of different acoustic environments on the perceptibility of speech sounds. Steriade (1997) found that voicing contrasts are more common in positions where more cues to voicing are available. The P-map, proposed by Steriade (2001a, b), allows the representation of varying salience of segments in different contexts. Many researchers have posited a relationship between speech perception and phonology. The purpose of this paper is to provide experimental evidence for this relationship, drawing on the case of Turkish /h/ deletion

Barbara Kohler Interview

Barbara Kohler attended Washington State Normal School (predecessor to Central Washington University) during the 1920s.https://digitalcommons.cwu.edu/cwura_interviews/1066/thumbnail.jp