A supplement to an earlier-published volume on bargaining tactics, this document presents specific tactics that can be used in the course of public sector collective bargaining to further management's pre-established negotiating strategies. All the tactics suggested are drawn from the author's personal experience as a public sector labor…

Collective bargaining between teachers and educational administrators has frequently had negative effects on the climate of school supervision and administration, but this need not always be the case. Before collective bargaining, teachers as a group were powerless over their pay and working conditions. Now many teachers feel that collective…

This paper outlines prohibited practices in collective bargaining when they take place in public education. After discussing rights of public employees as they parallel the language of the National Labor Relations Act, the paper goes indepth into five practices generally prohibited by state law: (1) domination of and interference with employee…

Teacher unionism, as evidenced by the United Federation of Teachers (UFT) and the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) is a conservative moderating force that seeks to preserve and strengthen the present bureaucratic-professional governance of schools. This paper concerns the policy impact of the UFT. Specifically, it describes the levels of…

Staff members of the Weber County Library System in Utah were studied in a research project to determine the effect on staff knowledge of library policies and procedures of (1) an employee handbook and (2) the handbook supplemented by a formal orientation procedure. Data were obtained from three randomly selected groups of library staff members in…

A commission on public relations education, consisting of four educators and four practitioners, met to deliberate and design a model for public relations education. The stated goals of the commission were to examine requirements for the professional practice of public relations, to relate these requirements to education, and to issue…

This monograph presents an overview of Pennsylvania's law governing collective bargaining for public employees (Act 195) and reviews Pennsylvania's experience under the law since its enactment in 1970. The passage of Act 195 for the first time made it possible for Pennsylvania public employees to bargain collectively and to legally strike when…

This document is a discussion draft intended to lead to the formulation of a set of guidelines by the state board of education concerning three areas of teacher negotiations: scope, good faith bargaining, and prohibited practices. It has been prepared in the form of an organized data base that focuses on summarizing the present state of the law…

More than 50 authors contributed to the papers at this conference, which emphasized the industrial relations aspects of education and manpower. Campus revolts were discussed in this perspective, and sessions were devoted to the economics of education and collective bargaining in the schools. Manpower programs were approached from the standpoints…

An experimental seminar in corporate communication at the University of Maryland was designed to (1) develop a set of theoretical concepts useful to the organizational communicator who functions as a mediator between management and labor, (2) utilize a practical methodology for these concepts, and (3) conduct a case study in cooperation with an…

This document summarizes the proceedings of a 2-day labor productivity conference held in Georgia during the summer of 1971. Detailed records and discussions of all presentations given are included as are conclusive findings of conference participants. Some of the major findings agreed upon in terms of productivity and its relationship to workers…

Summarized in this report are the outcomes of an evaluation study conducted to assess the effectiveness of the supervisors' training program for preparing HSMHA supervisors to implement the Employee Health Program on Alcoholism. Results of questionnaires completed by supervisors with and without training indicate that the program was beneficial.…

This report contains a variety of selected materials related to different aspects of collective negotiations in public education. Special reports written by leading experts in the field comprise the first section. The second section contains three chapters that are complete texts of a commission report and the proposed statutes covering…

Scientific investigation begins with the null hypothesis which states that there is no relationship between sets of phenomena or sets of variables. This hypothesis is based on the philosophical and physical principle that there is a tendency toward disorder in the universe. This is also commonly referred to as the law of entropy. In order to…

Discusses differences between collective negotiations in the private sector and public sector and offers suggested guidelines for school board members and district administrators to follow in preparing for negotiations. (JG)