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Direct linkEunice Sookyung Han; Emma Garcia – American Journal of Education, 2024
Purpose: The unanticipated changes in state legislation in Idaho, Indiana, Michigan, Tennessee, and Wisconsin in 2011-12 significantly restricted or entirely prohibited the collective bargaining rights of teachers. Considering these institutional changes as a natural experiment, we examine the causal impact of weakening teacher unionization on…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Teacher Rights, State Legislation, Workers Compensation
Schirmer, Eleni B.; Apple, Michael W. – Educational Forum, 2016
This article examines national conservative political advocacy groups' growing interest in local politics, and analyzes how they form alliances and gain political power. Following efforts to restrict collective bargaining for Wisconsin public employees, Kenosha school board members' attempts to legally protect teachers' rights provoked concern…
Descriptors: Local Issues, Politics of Education, National Organizations, Advocacy
Lyman, Kate – Rethinking Schools, 2011
It all started when the author's daughter, also a Madison teacher, called her. "We need to call people to the rally at the Capitol." That Sunday rally in Capitol Square was just the first step in the massive protests against Governor Scott Walker's infamous "budget repair bill." The Madison teachers' union declared a "work…
Descriptors: Controversial Issues (Course Content), Boards of Education, Board of Education Policy, Unions
Cavanagh, Sean – Education Week, 2011
Massive protests have been the norm in Wisconsin, since Gov. Scott Walker unveiled a plan to strip many collective bargaining rights from teachers and most other public employees. GOP elected officials are pursuing similar measures in Ohio and other states. But in the DeForest district, like some others around the state, collective bargaining,…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Employer Employee Relationship, Employment Problems, Grievance Procedures
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
Download full textSteffensen, James P. – Office of Education, US Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, 1964
The purpose of this bulletin is to describe the current status of proposals for formalizing negotiation procedures between teachers and their boards of education, indicating some potential trends. The entire issue of collective negotiation by teachers remains of relatively recent origin in terms of interest on a national scale, and the directions…
Descriptors: Unions, Collective Bargaining, Boards of Education, Teacher Associations
