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Biasi, Barbara – Education Next, 2023
Empirical evidence on the effects of compensation reform is somewhat scarce. Most U.S. public school teachers are paid according to rigid schedules that determine pay based solely on seniority and academic credentials. In unionized school districts, these schedules are set by collective bargaining agreements. In 2011 when the Wisconsin state…
Descriptors: State Legislation, Teacher Salaries, Compensation (Remuneration), Public School Teachers
Lichtenstein, Nelson – Chronicle of Higher Education, 2011
When he was still President Obama's chief of staff, Rahm Emanuel, now mayor-elect of Chicago, famously quipped: "Never allow a crisis to go to waste." Republican governors in Wisconsin, New Jersey, Ohio, and other states have certainly taken that advice to heart. By emphasizing, and in some cases manipulating, the red ink flowing through…
Descriptors: Municipalities, Social Class, Private Sector, Collective Bargaining
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Bernard-Donals, Michael – College Composition and Communication, 2009
In this essay, the author explains how teaching assistant (TA) unions work to the benefit not only of the graduate students who are their members but also of the writing programs that employ them. While university administrations understand unions to be bothersome at best and forces of evil at their worst, unions are essential to the maintenance…
Descriptors: Graduate Students, Unions, Teaching Assistants, Graduate Study