Uses tables to present data on teacher strikes in Pennsylvania since the passage of Act 195 in 1970. Includes data on the number of employees affected by strikes, the average number of employee strike days, the number of students affected by strikes, and the number of idle employee-days caused by strikes. (IRT)

Organizational resources and group solidarity are central foci in literature on social movements generally and worker insurgency specifically. Research, however, seldom deals with both simultaneously and their potential interrelations. In this article, we examine the complex relationships between union organization and worker solidarity relative…

A survey of 470 psychology students taken after a short strike by the faculty union revealed that students exhibited somewhat greater support for strikes in an abstract situation as opposed to a concrete situation, and students with union fathers demonstrated more positive attitudes toward faculty strikes. (MLF)

Used a multilevel analysis of surveys completed by 119 baseball fans to examine how strike tactics influenced fan support of the 1994-1995 Major League Baseball players' strike. Discusses factors that influenced fan opinion and the use of hierarchical linear modeling. (SLD)

To examine the perceptions of superintendents regarding the issues involved in teacher strikes and how they see strikes affecting principals, students, school boards, and themselves, a list of the districts throughout the United States that had experienced a strike during the years 1984 through 1987 was obtained from the Government Employee…

This study investigated the phenomena of strike propensity and strike compliance among teachers in an illegal teachers' strike that occurred in British Columbia, Canada, in 1983. A questionnaire developed for this study was distributed in early 1984 to a random sample of 1,000 teachers from eight school districts; a total of 456 responded. The…

The "irreparable harm" standard is an old principle of equity designed to limit court use of injunctions to situations in which the absence of court intervention would produce irreparable injury to legally protected interests. This study describes and analyzes the courts' use of the irreparable harm standard in anti-strike injunction…

The growth of unionization and the enactment of collective bargaining legislation are considered to be the causes of increased strike activity in the public sector. This paper includes statistical data on the frequency and number of public employee strikes in each state; summarizes the state labor legislation; and presents an average of strikes,…

A study examined the relationship between newspaper gratifications sought and media use during and after a 1985 strike by unions of two Philadelphia newspapers, and the compensatory media behaviors, if any, people adopted to make up for the loss of their daily newspaper(s). It was hypothesized that during the strike, people would read more…

The hypothesis tested and supported by samples of workers from the Quality of Employment Surveys is that the union wage premium is, in part, a compensating wage for accepting employment in hazardous and/or strike-prone industries. (Author/RM)

A cartographic description of American worker protest from 1880 to 1981 highlights three changes in the geographical structure of worker protest: a cyclical-geographical realignment of worker protest, two regions susceptible to protest during the third cycle, and the geographical retreat of anti-strike traditions during the past century.…

Summarizes the history of bargaining units formed to represent professional employees and presents the results of a survey of officers of 40 professional staff unions. These unions resemble conventional unions in bargaining issues such as job security and salaries and in their relationship with management. They differ in their infrequent use of…

This historical study tests the hypothesis that wage and hour issues in collective bargaining have not declined in relative importance over time. Comparing strikes and lockouts caused by wage and hour conflicts with those caused by all other issues, it is concluded that wage and hour issues have not declined in relative importance and likely will…

Using previously unreleased data on nearly every authorized work stoppage that occurred between 1984 and 2002, this paper tests whether the positive wage-strike relationship held following the breakdown of the post-war labor-capital accord. Unlike in decades past, these findings indicate a complete decoupling of the wage-strike relationship. Even…

It is the opinion of the authors of this position paper that collective bargaining in the public sector causes an increase in strikes and employee unrest, resulting in a diminution of public services. The authors assert that public employee collective bargaining means giving unions the power to control government through intimidation of the…