Discuses the effects of unionization on faculty salaries at two- and four-year institutions, reviewing studies of the relationship between faculty pay levels and increases and collective bargaining. Indicates that the majority of studies showed that unionization had an initially favorable impact on unionized faculty pay increases but not an…

A 1972-73 study found a negative correlation between collective bargaining and teacher salary levels in Wisconsin. Replication of the study in 1979-80 indicated that collective negotiations had no significant effect on salaries or on fringe benefits and that socioeconomic factors were of highest significance. (PGD)

This volume attempts to measure and quantify 10 labor standards in the United States and Canada. Its two purposes are to begin to fill the gap in the research by developing a measure of labor standards that can be applied across countries and to apply that measure to the United States (U.S.) and Canada to test a popular hypothesis that Canada has…