At first glance, public-sector labor unions are just one of many types of organizations that participate in the political process. However, these unions differ significantly from other interest groups made up of individual citizens or non-labor organizations. Because their members' interests are tied to government policy, these unions are more…

In this article, the author has equated the principal's relationship with the president of the teachers' union as a dance where each wants to lead and yet there is, as in most relationships, a mutual dependency that makes each person realize that there is a time when one leads and a time when one follows. The author presents the details of when…

This study examines the impact of the school accountability laws "No Child Left Behind" and Indiana's Public Law 221 on Superintendents' perception of their relationship with the Teachers' Union Leader in their mandatory discussion meetings. Both school accountability laws contain provisions for the Indiana's Department of Education to…

The largest political campaign spender in America is not a megacorporation, such as Wal-Mart, Microsoft, or ExxonMobil. It isn't an industry association, like the American Bankers Association or the National Association of Realtors. It's not even a labor federation, like the AFL-CIO. If one combines the campaign spending of all those entities it…

Union-management relationships have been filled with fear since the rise of capitalism; public education is no different. Workers fear exploitation by owners (profits depend on it) and capitalist/management has always worried that the working classes will organize and either take over the firm or strike and bring production to a screeching halt.…

Daily summaries, official tally of votes, resolutions, and constitutional amendments adopted at the 62nd annual convention of the American Federation of Teachers, ALF-CIO, Washington, D.C., August 21-24, 1978, are presented. (JD)

The NEA and its affiliates represent the nation's second-largest employee organization network. As a result the U.S. Department of Labor is continuing to press for inclusion of NEA groups under Landrum-Griffin scrutiny. Investigates what that means for teacher organizations. (Editor/RK)

The study reported in this paper sought to identify reasons why teachers do or do not join unions. In addition, the study sought to disclose relationships between certain demographic characteristics and those reasons. The National Education Association/American Federation of Teachers (NEA/AFT) Membership Questionnaire, a Likert-type attitudinal…

A teacher questions the motivations of teacher unions, which appear to be more interested in image-making, public relations, and politics than in teacher improvement and individual teachers' rights, attitudes, and problems. (CJ)

The prospective and perhaps inevitable merger of the National Education Association and the American Federation of Teachers is perhaps further away at present than at any time in recent years. Examines the factors present which have prevented the merger that would have at once created the single largest union in the United States. (Author/RK)

According to Joe A. Stone of the University of Oregon, average students do better in classrooms with unionized teachers, but less able and more able students do not. While this particular assumption lacks empirical clarity, many administrators and school board members feel that it would be much easier to reform public education if teacher unions…

Investigates the attitudes and values among secondary school teachers choosing to join union organizations, hypothesizing that status inconsistency among the dimensions of prestige and income is an important motive for militant behavior among secondary teachers. (Author/JM)

Presented at the 1969 NCEA Convention.

Wiktor Kulerski, Deputy Minister of Poland's Ministry of Education, and Andrzej Janowski, a Vice-Minister of Education, members of the Solidarity union's teachers branch, discuss their involvement with the union that forced democratic reforms in Poland's Communist government and ensuing changes in the Polish social studies curriculum. (FMW)