This report presents suggestions for avoiding teacher strikes and provides procedures that can be followed to minimize acrimony in the community and maintain board control over schools should a strike be executed. For example, boards should understand the roots of teacher militancy. They should provide teachers with (1) reasonable salaries and…

School board members and school administrators are provided with information concerning their roles in controlling the growing organized militancy of teachers. Positions and concepts that the management team should adopt in developing a collective negotiations agreement are discussed in many areas, including (1) composition of bargaining units,…

An intensive two-phase study of teachers' unions in three small school districts in southern New York State over a 10-year span investigates the changes within the union movement and assesses the impact of unionization on the school systems. The study discloses that teachers' organizations and the collective bargaining process are subject, over…

This contract between Curry College and the Curry College chapter of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP) covering the period 1987-1990, consists of the following articles: recognition of agent; definitions; academic freedom; no discrimination; exchange of information; agent's rights; agency shop; payroll deduction; health and…