The impact of the 8-day walkout of the New Jersey Teachers against the state college system remains obscure, however certain facts have emerged: (1) Traditional governance structures are rendered impotent by a major faculty strike. (2) Students can be expected to play an active if unpredictable role. (PG)

Studies how public relation efforts affected labor dispute negotiations during the 1946 steel strike. Finds that neither national nor local public relations campaigns had any impact on the resolution of the strike. Suggests that national campaigns, in fact, may have confused the community by offering messages that did not correspond to the local…

Student affairs personnel are involved in every aspect of formalized employee relationships, including strikes. An analysis of collective bargaining mechanisms is provided in order to assess the future effects for the student affairs profession. (Author)

Discusses labor relations at Yale University, explaining that for 35 years, they have been negative, with 4,000 workers recently walking off the job. (EV)

Presents a wage-withholding proposal for impasse resolution in faculty collective bargaining in a state system. A percentage of each faculty member's salary and a significant contribution from the state treasury are put into an escrow account which goes into the federal treasury if settlement is not reached within 45 days. (JT)

Offers guidelines for productive negotiation between management and workers, including a role-play exercise designed to improve negotiation skills. (Author/WD)

After the temporary shutdown of a reported 400 insitutions last month, administrators are taking a hard look at the political and economic consequences of student strikes. (Editor)

Under the present system, public employees do not share with their employers the right to determine terms and conditions of employment. Florida should adopt issue-by-issue compulsory arbitration to correct the present imbalance in power. Available from Florida State University Law Review, College of Law, Tallahassee, FL 32306; $5.00 per single…

A survey was designed to investigate the impact of faculty unionism, militancy, and collective bargaining on the traditional patterns, relationships, and academic governance in the public colleges and universities in the state. There appears to be a diversity of opinion concerning the causes and impact of these faculty activities. A majority of…

This paper highlights some of the similarities and differences in the labor-management experiences of Boston University (Massachusetts), Temple University (Pennsylvania), the University of Bridgeport (Connecticut), and Yeshiva University (New York) to determine which may represent failures and which do not. In comparing the Yeshiva and Boston…

A theory of strikes in higher education and a statistical analysis of strike activity are presented in this newsletter issue. The report on the theory of strikes in an article by Lisa Flanzraich addresses the absence of strikes on campuses during fall 1982 and the conditions in which strikes occur. The absence of strikes could be proof of the…

Developments in the area of academic collective bargaining are examined. Issues pertaining to interest and final offer arbitration are discussed, with attention to authority of judicial arbitrators and interest arbitrators, standards for the interest arbitrator, and public sector problems. Information on strikes in the fall of 1980 indicate no…

This autobiography recounts personal experiences as a college professor and administrator (President of the University of Michigan) during the 1960s to the early 1980s. The 17 chapters discuss early years growing up in Illinois; college years; employment with the federal government; enlistment in the Army; the war in Germany; the end of the war,…

The manual is a guide for management representatives engaged in collective bargaining in higher education. It focuses primarily on faculty bargaining, but also addresses the problems of non-faculty units. It is intended for administrators, including governing board members, faced with significant responsibility for bargaining but without prior…