Reviews present labor statutes and examines three alternatives to current practices; proposes that teaching, by its nature, is not well administered by industrial standards or well adjudicated through industrial unionism. Suggests "professional unionism" as a means of effecting educational reform. (DR)

Teaching contains elements of four different types of work--labor, crafts, professional, and artistic. Unionization has encouraged the tendency to define teaching as labor, because teachers' work is more preplanned and closely supervised. Policy options that might alter the nature of teaching are considered. (PP)

To illustrate possible dangers of "exit" as a teacher option, questions about labor relations and work role perceptions were given to teachers from three California districts. The canonical correlation technique measures teacher role perceptions against organizational conditions and labor relations beliefs. A figure shows three variates:…

The central thesis of this essay is that schools may be becoming both more political and more bureaucratic because of collective bargaining. (Author/EB)

Summarizes school reform efforts in several urban districts, focusing on professional unionism and its superiority to traditional industrial unionism. These districts exemplify the art of school leadership, as administrators work through challenges to administrative authority, feelings of being excluded, and overloaded agendas. Teaming,…

Since 1987, 12 California school districts and their teachers' unions have experimented with a new form of labor accord called an Educational Policy Trust Agreement. The project helps teachers, as represented by their unions, and school management to reach agreements on issues that are not included within the scope of traditional collective…

Results of a study involving 450 teachers in three California school districts show that two sets of standards exist for judging the effectiveness of teacher unions. For union leaders, legitimacy means keeping promises to teachers by winning concessions from management and, at the same time, working toward a more credible and cooperative…

Conclusions about public school labor relations advanced in this report are based on analysis of data from a two-phase study. The first phase consisted of case studies conducted during entire collective bargaining cycles in eight school districts--four in Illinois and four in California. The second phase of the research expanded the work into 65…