Trends toward greater teacher unionization will increase in the 1980s, as teachers react to economic pressures springing from school closures, declining enrollments, and attempts to fund private schools with public taxes. Educational unions will become more politically active, to protect teachers' union and civil rights. (RW)

The growing trend of judicial support allowing employers and third parties to seek damages in public employee strikes is reviewed from the union perspective. Includes a discussion of the historical trend of liability theories. This area of public sector labor relations law is developing with no clear national trend. (MD)

Reviews the history of the development and beginnings of universities in the United States in relation to the question of whether university faculty members are to be considered management employees not entitled to bargain collectively with the administration. Discusses this history in relation to the court litigation at Yeshiva State University…

Briefly discusses the importance of collective bargaining with noninstructional personnel in education and points out the frequent cross-impact of legal requirements affecting noninstructional personnel and instructional personnel. (JG)

Labor relations between schools and their employees are likely to experience continued change in the 1980s, affecting not only the legislative framework for collective bargaining in the public sector, but also union representation struggles, job security, bargaining issues, layoff procedures, and arbitration. (RW)

It should be deemed an unfair practice under applicable state and local laws for an employer to make a unilateral change in the terms and conditions of employment prior to the exhaustion of post-impasse procedures, whether or not the change is consistent with employer bargaining proposals. (Author/IRT)

Public-sector management teams and their counterpart labor unions are faced with an ever-increasing myriad of challenges in the quest to produce collective bargaining agreements. Shrinking tax bases, declining levels of federal and state assistance, and public demands for downsizing and privatization are all factors that suggest that financial…

A union perspective of major issues in higher education labor law in the 1990s includes the 11th Circuit Court cases on whether Congress abrogated states' 11th Amendment immunity for suits under the Age Discrimination in Employment Act (ADEA) and under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA). Analyzes contract issues of protection around age…

Reviews the U.S. Supreme Court's decision in City of Madison, Joint School District No. 8 v. Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission, and discusses the probable effect of that decision on public employers and public employee unions, focusing in particular on public school districts and teachers. (JG)

Responsible leaders from all sides of this process should be encouraged by the experiences of New York that efforts to utilize the assistance and aid of responsible unions and their leaders is paramount to survive any fiscal crisis. (Author)