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…

The active involvement of the American labor movement in the cause of equal job opportunities for handicapped workers and the current efforts of the AFL-CIO Human Resources Development Institute and the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union in this area of concern are examined. (LAS)

The process of collective bargaining needs the assistance of congressional legislation in order to respond successfully to equal employment opportunity problems. A proposal to develop an Affirmative Action Adjustment Assistant Act is presented as a possible solution. (EC)

The Clearinghouse was formed to try to topple job carriers for ex-offenders. (BP)

In this humorous article, a man with autism discusses his struggles with the world of employment despite his cum laude degree from Yale University. The underemployment of people with disabilities is highlighted, along with the lack of "people skills" that individuals with autism have, which creates a barrier to employment. (CR)

Members of the educational community and the employment sector need to cooperate to overcome barriers that prevent special needs learners from making the transition from school to work. Cooperation should lead to improvement in the recruitment, hiring, and promotion of special needs persons. (CT)

The Immigration and Reform Control Act of 1986, or IRCA, prohibits employers from knowingly hiring any alien not authorized to work in the United States. Congress passed an antidiscrimination provision, part of IRCA, which prohibits smaller employers from committing national origin discrimination. Reviews this topic. (JBJ)

This manual contains the course material designed to prepare equal employment opportunity counselors to informally resolve complaints of discrimination. The principal focus of the course is on techniques of counseling, which are taught through lecture and role-play sessions simulating actual complaint situations. At the end of the course,…

This report focuses on the barriers to employment encountered by millions of individuals with disabilities and on proposals that would eliminate or reduce those barriers. The report describes the following three barriers: (1) many people would be worse off financially if they worked and earned to their potential than if they did not work; (2)…

A thorough study of women in academe and the policies that discriminate against them. (Editor/PG)

Research has shown that three main barriers impede the ability of inner-city, low-income job seekers to find employment in the suburbs: an administrative or information barrier, a physical barrier, and a social barrier. The Bridges to Work demonstration program was designed to test the idea that improved access to suburban jobs can significantly…

Since severely disabled veterans have the greatest employment problems, increased efforts in their behalf are recommended. Improved employment service activities for veterans and more extensive and intensive job development are sorely needed. (MW)

An indication of the rearrangements of power, privilege, income and wealth distribution that are necessary for the establishment of full employment with price stability; involving policies of guaranteed public service jobs, income maintenance, prices and wages controls, a redistributive taxation system, and the eventual "socialization of…