The prevalence of labour disruptions in the Canadian education sector requires a comprehensive analysis of the adverse implications of strikes for stakeholders and Canadian society in general. Education is a kind of public good that generates positive externalities and strikes in Canadian universities and colleges engender negative externalities…

In October 2012, Premier Christy Clark announced government would consult with the education partners for the purpose of reviewing teacher bargaining structures and processes with the goal of providing a more stable learning environment for British Columbia students. The review looked for opportunities to achieve two priorities: (1) Create…

The directory begins with a summary of unionization activities among college faculty for the 1989 calendar year. It is concluded that there were no significant events in academic collective bargaining during the year, with faculty unions concentrating resources on servicing their members and preserving affiliations. The faculty contracts and…

Quebec colleges remained firmly entrenched in the pure classicism of prerevolutionary France until well into the twentieth century. Formal Roman Catholic Church control of Laval University, a Jesuit university, ceased in 1965 at a time when the institution and its administration were expanding greatly, and the faculty quickly began to resent the…

This report presents a history and overview of the collective bargaining process and trade unions in the Federal Republic of Germany. Topics covered include the following: (1) social partners--trade unions and the employers' associations; (2) the history of free collective bargaining; (3) free collective bargaining after World War II; (4) the…

This directory provides the 1990 collective bargaining results and union activity for higher education in the United States and Canada. Sections include lists of: (1) U.S. faculty contracts and bargaining agents; (2) U.S. adjunct faculty contracts and bargaining agents; (3) U.S. graduate and teaching assistant contracts and bargaining agents in…