This newsletter theme issue cites statistics indicating that slight growth occurred in the number of faculty members represented for purposes of collective bargaining and in the number of faculty bargaining agents in institutions of higher education in the United States. In text, tabular, and graphic formats, the report offers information on:…

This newsletter on collective bargaining in higher education and the professions devotes nearly all this issue to an analysis of a recent Supreme Court decision ruling that licensed nurse practitioners are supervisors who are therefore excluded from collective bargaining protection. The "National Labor Relations Board, Petitioner versus…

This directory reports on faculty contracts and bargaining agents in higher education in the United States in 1992. An introductory section examines two conflicting trends characterizing faculty higher education collective bargaining activities during 1992--the number of collective bargaining agents increased to an all time high of 484, but the…

This newsletter presents information about faculty collective bargaining at two-year colleges during 1994. The newsletter indicates the following: (1) two-year colleges accounted for 349 (69%) of the 502 faculty higher education collective bargaining agents; (2) two-year college faculty accounted for 43% of the 242,221 faculty members represented…

This newsletter theme issue focuses on unionization of graduate student assistants at institutions of higher education. The first article, "Graduate Assistants and Unionization" by Frank R. Annunziato, points out that more than 21,000 graduate student assistants at public sector colleges/universities are represented by unions in eight…