Presents national data on teacher salary trends from 1967 to 1980 as background for a review of 15 major studies on collective bargaining's effects on teacher salaries. Discusses problems in the research and concludes that the studies indicate bargaining has had some effect on salaries. (RW)

Recent proposals to implement teacher incentive pay or merit pay plans have failed to recognize that in most states such plans must be negotiated and administered through collective bargaining at the local district level. The traditional collective bargaining process makes major changes difficult to enact; both sides must bluff, threaten, and make…

This study investigated whether the use of the impasse procedures established by New York's Taylor Law affected the level of teacher salaries in New York public school districts between 1968 and 1972. Data for the study were gathered from all 693 New York public school districts (except New York City) that were involved in collective bargaining…