Like thousands of other people from around the country and around the world, this author was heartened and inspired by the tenacity, immediacy, and creativity of the pushback by Wisconsin's public-sector unions against Governor Scott Walker's efforts to limit their collective bargaining rights. And like many others who made the trek to Madison to…

The United Faculty (UF), representing instructors at Diablo Valley College (DVC), has failed to recognize the special problems of collective bargaining in the academic setting and has instead employed a muscular unionism which limits dialog among teachers, administrators, and trustees. This failure is reflected in current collective bargaining…

This article offers a critique of Eduardo Padron's administration at Miami-Dade Community College (MDCC) in Florida. Padron has been district president at MDCC since 1995. Almost immediately after his appointment, Padron moved to centralize the school's administration. He fired employees en masse, cut and consolidated sports programs, and began…