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)

An ongoing public relations effort can build trust and support for the district's management team among employees and the general public. This trust is especially valuable in the event of a labor dispute. (Published by New Jersey School Boards Association, Box 909, 383 West State Street, Trenton, New Jersey 08605.) (JG)

The article, not intended as an argument for or against unionization, points up certain issues (fixed salary schedules, restricted workloads, and the right to hire part-time faculty) which, if subject to negotiation, can work havoc with vocational programs. (Author/AJ)

The New York newspaper strike of 1978 was the direct result of a series of events that started in 1923 when the pressmen's union established a system that provided a minimum fixed number of pressmen per press unit and legitimized a loose labor pool. From that time, the number of pressmen increased through family-dominated union management that…

This report is comprised of a series of articles that discuss two areas of dispute settlement -- negotiation impasses and representation and unit determination problems. Arvid Anderson concentrates on the growing utilization of compulsory binding arbitration and reviews its present use. Harold Davey discusses the principles of effective conflict…

After attaining a collective bargaining contract with New York City in 1960, the United Federation of Teachers worked successfully to improve salaries and working conditions. But in the aftermath of the 1975 fiscal crisis, the more equitable participation of teachers in policymaking has emerged as a clear goal. (KH)

Discusses collective bargaining from the perspectives of a member of a community college faculty association's negotiating team and a member of the boards of trustees of several schools. Decries the faults of collective bargaining as an adversarial system and suggests decision making by consensus as a possible alternative. (AYC)

Presents developments in grievance arbitration in government employment by examining all public sector arbitration cases from 1971 through 1979. Predicts that issues of employee discipline and discharge will comprise the largest number of cases proceeding to arbitration. (Author/MLF)

How to measure productivity increases in service occupations is a problem that still awaits a solution. Efforts being made in the federal sector to gauge productivity growth are discussed, along with implications in private-sector bargaining. (Editor/LBH)

A survey of 79 British union representatives found that two-thirds approved of job evaluation as a method of determining pay structure. Also explored were labor disputes resulting from job evaluation and the impact of evaluation on collective bargaining, pay differentials, job performance, and career development. (SK)

Based on an analysis of oral history interviews, this paper examines the events and consciousness surrounding a 1979 strike initiated by 53 female office employees of the Wisconsin Education Association (WEA) Insurance Trust. Faced with sex-discriminatory working conditions, the women at the Trust responded by initiating a strike. For many of the…

Reviews current case law alerting public institutions as well as those covered under the National Labor Relations Act to consequences and problems of faculty unionization, including issues of conflict between the faculty senate and a union, exclusive representation, supervisory status of faculty members, and scope of negotiation issues. (JT)