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Direct linkMario I. Suárez; Harper B. Keenan; Christina Cook; Mollie T. McQuillan; Lee Iskander; Bishop Owis; Daniel Gallardo-Zamora; Christy Glass – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2024
In this study, we use data from a sample of 296 trans PK-12 school workers in the United States and Canada to consider the impact of union membership on an educator population who may be disproportionately harmed by systemic inequalities. Using intersectionality and trans studies as frameworks with a QuantCrit analytical lens, we examined union…
Descriptors: Union Members, Safety, Sexual Identity, LGBTQ People
Download full textDiSalvo, Daniel – Center for State and Local Leadership, 2012
At first glance, public-sector labor unions are just one of many types of organizations that participate in the political process. However, these unions differ significantly from other interest groups made up of individual citizens or non-labor organizations. Because their members' interests are tied to government policy, these unions are more…
Descriptors: Unions, Public Sector, Fiscal Capacity, Political Attitudes
Lips, Dan – Heritage Foundation, 2010
Across the United States, policymakers are increasingly adopting education policies that give families the power to choose their children's schools. Nonetheless, the idea of providing school vouchers to allow children to attend private schools remains controversial. For instance, congressional leaders and the Obama Administration have tried to end…
Descriptors: Private Schools, School Choice, Foreign Countries, Educational Vouchers
Martin, Andrew W. – Social Forces, 2007
Robert Michels' famous "iron law of oligarchy" has come under criticism from scholars that question assumptions regarding the concentration of power within social movement organizations (SMOs). Despite such concerns, Michels' broader interests in organizational structure and power continue to be relevant for analyzing the goals and…
Descriptors: Resource Allocation, Unions, United States History, Power Structure
Russo, Charles J. – Education and the Law, 2007
As the most unionized segment of the public sector workforce in the USA, teachers and their bargaining representatives wield significant power in the world of educational labour relations and beyond. Yet, just as the First Amendment's freedom of association clause affords unions the right to exist, its concomitant recognition that employees are…
Descriptors: Constitutional Law, Court Litigation, Foreign Countries, Public Sector
Scully-Russ, Ellen – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2006
Purpose: Responding to the recent split in the US labor movement, this paper aims to argue that learning must become an integral part of a progressive union devoted to organizing. Design/methodology/approach: This paper traces the evolution of vocational education in US industrial unions and critiques it in light of the challenges facing labor…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Labor Relations, Labor, Unions
