This bibliography represents the latest in a series of publications which expand coverage of retrospective and current references regarding labor relations that affect the numerous constitutencies within higher education. The compilation includes 992 citations with reference to: (1) Affirmative Action, (2) Arbitration Awards, (3) Court Cases, (4)…

The life and times of Clark Kerr, who built the modern University of California and transformed American higher education, are presented. (MLW)

Administrators at several public institutions have filed complaints with state labor relations boards, claiming that their faculty have managerial status and should be barred from collective bargaining, as in a 1980 Supreme Court case concerning the private Yeshiva University. (MSE)

A program of planned organizational change based on the interventions of a neutral third party used organizational development and dispute resolution techniques to alter the structure and process of academic negotiations. Analysis indicates that the interventions had no impact on campus climate but did significantly imnprove campus bargaining…

Because the Court refused to address certain constitutional claims, the result is a confusingly broad ruling encompassing all church-related schools, which could obliterate distinctions between secondary and postsecondary education. Available from the Duquesne Law Review, 901 Rockwell Hall, 600 Forbes Avenue, Pittsburgh, PA 15219; sc $4.00.…

Examines Kentucky's statutory and decisional law concerning public sector labor relations, as well as the practice and future of public sector relations as perceived by city and county officials. Available from Salmon P. Chase College of Law, 1401 Dixie Highway, Covington, Kentucky 41011; 1.50 per reprint. (Author/IRT)

This article records and assesses developments in relations between employers and academic staff in British polytechnic institutes and colleges. It focuses on the conditions of service and contracts of employment for lecturers. It also analyzes to what extent these issues are symptomatic of a shift in the employee relations strategy of schools…

This introduction to the theme issue first discusses the expanding legal rights of educational employees, and then examines whether this development hinders educational missions by making it too difficult to discipline or dismiss unsatisfactory employees. Finally, the five articles in this issue are reviewed in relation to this question. (SLD)

Describes efforts of the San Diego-Imperial Counties Central Labor Council (California) to develop programs in cooperation with local academics, including a successful law student internship program and some academic work with local unions. Constituency interests and needs, procedures, and general values involved in such cooperative programs are…

For this kit, 119 Association of Research Libraries (ARL) member libraries were surveyed to ascertain the extent of employee award programs. The survey focused on identifying how many member libraries have an employee award program and also gathered information on the nature of these programs. Questions were designed to identify what is rewarded,…

This booklet contains six short papers prepared for a symposium on collective negotiation in education. The opening paper presents a national overview of the subject, while the subsequent articles mainly discuss experiences under the Pennsylvania Public Employee Relations Act of 1970, which granted state and local employees full collective…

Study of online searching experience in Martin P. Catherwood Library, New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University, presents results of five years of collecting data on bibliographic files accessed. A ranking of 10 most frequently searched files and commentary on pattern that emerges are provided. (EJS)

Discusses two new challenges that face faculty bargaining organizations: first, the Supreme Court's decision in "NLRB vs. Yeshiva University" that faculties exercising power over governance of their institutions have managerial status that excludes them from protection under the National Labor Relations Act, and, second, the current…

Analyzes the use of simulation in teaching about the collective bargaining process, identifies the psychological issues involved in collective bargaining, and discusses the development of a computer model that allows for case development and psychological bargaining experiences. Two flow charts and a set of sample bargaining simulations are…

A management perspective of major issues in higher education labor law in the 1990s addresses: sexual harassment; the Civil Rights Act of 1991; diversity on campus, elimination of mandatory retirement for faculty; development of contingent work force; and unionization of residents, interns, and graduate assistants. Predicts alternatives to…