Leaders of the American Federation of Teachers, the National Education Association, and the American School Boards Association predict problems and possible solutions that teachers will face in the future. Subjects include collective bargaining, strikes, relevant inservice and preservice teacher training, teacher competency tests, and cooperation.…

Examines potential effects of teacher activities in professional negotiations and suggests some possible reactions by management. (JD)

Teacher unions have pushed beyond bargaining over teacher welfare issues to include participation in education policy and decision making. Offers suggestions for school boards to deal with curriculum and instruction issues creeping into contract negotiations. (MLF)

Discusses the development of teachers' unions as adversaries of school boards in the 1960s. Today there are signs that unions are moving from an industrial model of labor relations to a more professional union model, one in which union leaders and school leaders can become allies in the effort to improve schools. (SLD)

Even where collective bargaining is well established, teachers have almost no voice in educational decisionmaking. This is likely to remain a source of teacher frustration until the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers merge into a united organization that effectively represents teachers on a national level. (JG)

Presents a chart clarifying the proper relationship between school districts and employees and employee organizations. (Published by California School Boards Association, 800 9th Street, Suite 201, Sacramento, California 95814) (Author/WM)

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…

As part of an inservice education program, papers are presented from a 1978 conference that addressed major issues of the 1980s in statewide coordination and governance in postsecondary education, along with excerpts from a 1977 conference on the relationship between higher education and government as seen from abroad. In the introduction to the…

This ten-year longitudinal case study examined collective bargaining between the Pittsburgh Federation of Teachers and the Pittsburgh School Board. Data were collected by reviewing all formal contract proposals for the years 1968-1978. To ascertain the impact of collective bargaining on educational policy, policy issues were separated from…

SIX RECENT BOOKS ON COLLECTIVE NEGOTIATIONS ARE REVIEWED--(1) MYRON LIEBERMAN AND MICHAEL H. MOSKOW, "COLLECTIVE NEGOTIATIONS FOR TEACHERS, AN APPROACH TO SCHOOL ADMINISTRATION," (2) MICHAEL H. MOSKOW, "TEACHERS AND UNIONS, THE APPLICABILITY OF COLLECTIVE BARGAINING TO PUBLIC EDUCATION," (3) STANLEY M. ELAM, MYRON LIEBERMAN,…

BILATERAL DETERMINATION OF SCHOOL POLICY IN PUBLIC EDUCATION IS RAPIDLY BECOMING THE NORM AS COLLECTIVE NEGOTIATION BETWEEN TEACHERS ASSOCIATIONS AND SCHOOL BOARDS GROWS ON BOTH LOCAL AND STATE LEVELS. FACTORS INFLUENCING THIS TREND INCLUDE THE CONTEST BETWEEN NEA AND AFT AFFILIATES TO BE THE SOLE REPRESENTATIVE OF TEACHERS IN THEIR DEALINGS WITH…

Successful negotiations are more likely to occur if a suitable climate exists. Five general elements influence this climate: (1) The history of working relationships among teachers, administrators, and board of education members, (2) the current status of these relationships, (3) the pressures from emerging teacher organizational changes, (4)…

This volume is the final in a 4-part series of monographs comprising a broad investigation of teacher collective action in local school districts. It presents the results of investigations of the shortrun and probable longrun impact of negotiating activity between school boards and teacher organizations in 22 selected school districts across the…

The effects of Florida's "sunshine" law opening collective bargaining sessions to the public are outlined in this presentation, which summarizes the results of a survey of school board members, superintendents, and negotiators. Of the 101 school board members (one-third of Florida's total) responding to the questionnaire, 68 said that…