We study the effects of the unionization of faculty at Canadian universities from 1970-2022 using an event-study design. Using administrative data which covers the full universe of faculty salaries, we find strong evidence that unionization leads to both average salary gains and compression of the distribution of salaries. Our estimates indicate…

The Canadian Association of University Teachers (CAUT) represents 72,000 academic staff at universities and colleges across the country. CAUT strives for fair working conditions, compensation and benefits to foster quality teaching and innovative research while advancing equity and human rights within our profession. Many of the institutions where…

Previous findings indicate that faculty on the average earn greater compensation increases at unionized institutions than at nonunionized colleges and universities. More recent data suggest that while increases favoring unionized faculty continue in public four-year colleges and independent institutions, they may have stabilized at public…

The trend of unionization and collective bargaining on college and university campuses is viewed. (HS)

Calculates the union relative wage effect for a large sample of college faculty in the United States. The data used are from "The 1977 Survey of the American Professoriate" and cover 4,250 faculty members at 158 institutions of higher education. Faculty characteristics are found to be more important in influencing salaries in nonunion schools than…

A study of the relationship between faculty unionization and salaries in Ontario's universities during 1975-1983 suggests that unionization has not had a significant impact on relative salary structures there. (MSE)

In 1974, the University of Cincinnati faculty voted to be represented by the American Association of University Professors in collective bargaining. Faculty attitudes leading to that decision were surveyed and are reported in the excerpt from a paper presented at the annual meeting of the Industrial Relations Research Association. (EC)

The economic position of college faculty members is examined. It is suggested that a declining relative and absolute economic status for faculty has been in evidence for several years and shows no signs of abating. Faculty members are being forced to find ways to supplement their salaries through outside activities and second jobs. It is also…

A national survey has found little change in faculty salary differentials among disciplines. For the second year, however, public institutions' salary growth outpaced private institutions'. Other trends include "compression" of salaries among faculty ranks within a field and higher salaries for faculty with union contracts. (MSE)

Develops a model of faculty salaries, job satisfaction, and union status, using data for 1,729 faculty members at 4-year colleges and universities. Unions significantly and positively affect full and associate professors' salaries and increase the rewards to seniority while reducing the returns to being at a research university. Union members'…

The trend in Australia toward a broader scope of collective bargaining implies that college faculty bargaining may extend to aging and pensions, tenure, leaves of absence, conditions of fixed-term appointments, criteria for promotion and dismissal, staffing redundancy, and other issues. (MSE)

The University of Rhode Island established a merit pay system to reward exceptional teaching, research, and service and to retain valuable faculty. A survey investigated faculty attitudes about the new system's fairness, potential results on faculty productivity and morale, and effects on faculty allegiance. (MSE)

Originally presented at a Conference on Labor in Nonprofit Industry and Government held at Princeton University, the studies are the first to provide an economic discussion of the public sector labor market. Melvin Reder examines the effect of the absence of the profit motive on employment and wage determination in the public sector. Orley…

The effects of collective bargaining on faculty salaries are examined. Thirty institutions with collective bargaining agreements are matched with similar institutions without such agreements, and faculty salaries are compared prior to and following unionization. Collective bargaining agreements are found to have little effect upon salary…

Implications of academic collective bargaining and unionization in Australian higher education are examined in the context of different models of bargaining advocated by the national government and federal opposition. Problems foreseen include diminution of employment conditions, morale, staff quality, and instructional quality as well as…