Outlines five approaches to the use of court injunctions to end public employee work stoppages. The current use of injunctions seriously impedes free and open collective bargaining. (Author/IRT)

Considers the language and objectives of Minnesota law and concludes that a complete prohibition of sympathy strikes will frustrate the law's goal--minimizing public employee labor disputes by equalizing the bargaining strength of employers and employees. Available from University of Minnesota Law School, 229 19th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN…

This article discusses recent court decisions affecting the relationship between teachers' associations and unions and the public agencies that employ those teachers. Topics discussed include constitutional rights, union representation and union rights, obligation to bargain and scope of bargaining, grievances and arbitrability, fiscal…

Examines Ohio's Public Employee Collective Bargaining Act from a union perspective and argues that the act has advanced the cause of "orderly and constructive relationships" between Ohio's public employers and their employees. (MLF)

Examines the background of union security clause (specifically agency shop), analyzes arguments for and against it, details problems remaining after the U.S. Supreme Court's 1977 decision on Abood vs. Detroit Board of Education, and offers some suggestions for the future. (Author/PKP)

Examines the impact of private labor rulings on Pennsylvania's public employee laws, public sector strikes and their implications, and Pennsylvania's public employee laws and the right to strike. Available from Duquesne Law Review, 901 Rockwell Hall, 600 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15219; sc $3.50. (Author/IRT)

The right to strike should be granted to public school teachers. If proper mediation procedures are mandated, the strike weapon would be used only as a last resort to collective bargaining. Available from Southwestern University School of Law, 675 South Westmoreland Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90005. (Author)

The accessibility of declaratory judgment would greatly diminish the propensity toward self-help to "solve" labor conflicts and would decrease the concomitant potential for violence and damages. Available from Seton Hall University School of Law, 1095 Raymond Boulevard, Newark, NJ 07102. (Author/IRT)

The legislative trend seems to be toward providing limited opportunity for public employees to strike, and court reluctance to enjoin such stoppages increases. (Author)

The growing trend of judicial support allowing employers and third parties to seek damages in public employee strikes is reviewed from the union perspective. Includes a discussion of the historical trend of liability theories. This area of public sector labor relations law is developing with no clear national trend. (MD)

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)

Several significant court decisions involving labor cases are discussed including a series of decisions concerning constitutional protections afforded aliens; the First Amendment and national labor relations laws; and the bifurcated backpay rule. (BM)

In many ways, 1976-1977 was a traditional year in labor relations in education. For the most part, traditional bargaining issues prevailed--wages and fringes, especially leave issues; tenure, seniority, and retirement; teacher workload and class assignments; union dues; and academic freedom and constitutional rights. The two major teacher…

Presents a selection of summaries of recent judicial decisions in a number of countries concerninq the application of general legal principles to contracts of employment, acquired rights, liability of employers and workers, access to employment, nature of the employment relationship, and more. (Editor/CT)

A database on Labor Relations in Education used to prepare several sections of this report is described, and datafiles are listed along with access information and several examples of information that can be obtained from the database. This special report includes exclusive interviews with top officials of the two major teacher unions--the…