Based on recent bitter experience, this article tells districts how to prepare for a teacher strike. Administrators should assess their public relations program and the strength of their board, know their adversary (the union) and the bargaining process, asssess the management team, and plan strategically. (MLH)

Examines recent research evaluating collective bargaining in relation to the learning environment. Considers the impact of work stoppages on students; faculty attitudes toward institutions; differences between institutions with and without collective bargaining; governance issues; student influence; and educational quality. Concludes that…

Discusses such school personnel problems as collective bargaining, negotiations, job hunting, teacher supply, evaluation, and strikes. (Author/JF)

Authors discuss their experiences with each of four different types of strikes -- recognitional, jurisdictional, strikes during the term of an agreement, and economic strikes. Describes the effect these strikes as well as strike threats have had on the public sector. (JF)

Empirical analysis of 26 Canadian strikes finds strikes profitable, on the whole, to employees. (AG)

Argues that labor laws have not contributed to stability in the transportation industries. (BH)

Recommends the selective strike as the best means to resolve railway labor disputes. (BH)

A style of bargaining for educators and school boards is described, based on rational inquiry, open discussion, and peaceful persuasion. (MF)

Teacher Militancy Dialogue from the proceedings of the Annual Meeting of the Education Commission of the States (3rd, Denver, Colorado, July 7-9, 1969).

Surveyed 121 Canadian social workers on their attitudes toward strikes. Results showed subjects had little experience with strikes although 80 percent had no objection in principle to striking. Quality of service was a more important strike issue than traditional union concerns such as wages or job security. (Author/JAC)

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)

A teacher who participated in the 1978 strike of the high schools in Thorton Township, Illinois, examines some of the contract issues and teachers' frustrations over administration's conduct during bargaining which made the strike, in his view, inevitable. (SJL)

Student affairs personnel are involved in every aspect of formalized employee relationships, including strikes. An analysis of collective bargaining mechanisms is provided in order to assess the future effects for the student affairs profession. (Author)

Reviews the legal issues and implications of the Wisconsin Supreme Court's recent decision in Hortonville Education Association v. Hortonville Joint School District and discusses the possible impact of the U.S. Supreme Court's decision to review the Hortonville case. (JG)