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Mario I. Suárez; Harper B. Keenan; Christina Cook; Mollie T. McQuillan; Lee Iskander; Bishop Owis; Daniel Gallardo-Zamora; Christy Glass – Equity & Excellence in Education, 2024
In this study, we use data from a sample of 296 trans PK-12 school workers in the United States and Canada to consider the impact of union membership on an educator population who may be disproportionately harmed by systemic inequalities. Using intersectionality and trans studies as frameworks with a QuantCrit analytical lens, we examined union…
Descriptors: Union Members, Safety, Sexual Identity, LGBTQ People
Ross, Stephanie; Savage, Larry; Watson, James – Canadian Journal of Higher Education, 2021
This article explores the relationship between unionization and academic freedom protections for sessional faculty in Ontario universities. Specifically, we compare university policies and contract provisions with a view to determining whether unionized sessionals hired on a per-course basis have stronger academic freedom protections than their…
Descriptors: Nontenured Faculty, Adjunct Faculty, Part Time Faculty, Unions
Frenette, Marc – Statistics Canada, 2019
Given the time and money invested in higher education by students, parents and governments, there is considerable interest in the economic outcomes of postsecondary graduates. Most assessments of recent graduates have focused on their short-term, early labour market results. As new entrants to the labour force, recent postsecondary graduates may…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Education Work Relationship, College Graduates, Income
Hanson, Cindy L. – Canadian Journal for the Study of Adult Education, 2014
For almost two decades, the Prairie School for Union Women (PSUW) has operated in Saskatchewan, Canada. Its use of feminist popular education, adult learning principles in facilitation, and mentoring and support for activist practices make it unique from other labour schools in many respects. This paper focuses on a community-based participatory…
Descriptors: Feminism, Adult Learning, Action Research, Participatory Research
Ng, Winnie – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2012
Purpose: This paper aims to report on the author's recent research examining the meaning and practices of educating for solidarity, specifically from anti-racism and decolonizing perspective. The research is part of the critical exploration on new educational approaches on solidarity building among workers and trade union members in the broader…
Descriptors: Action Research, Unions, Autobiographies, Working Class

Schmidle, Deborah Joseph – Library Trends, 2002
Examines academic library service to labor groups, particularly in the area of Internet training. Results of an informal survey of 53 academic libraries in schools with labor study programs in the United States and Canada indicate that few provide direct services to labor unions, and provides an example of one that does at Cornell University.…
Descriptors: Academic Libraries, Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Internet

Le Bourdais, Ciline; And Others – Journal of Marriage and the Family, 1995
Using data on 1,257 women from a 1984 survey, attempts to identify factors associated with union formation among single mothers in Canada. Found that the age of mothers at the beginning of their first episode of single parenthood appears closely related to their chances of forming a union. Other results are discussed. (RJM)
Descriptors: Employer Employee Relationship, Employment, Employment Practices, Family Life

Journal of Intergroup Relations, 1984
Provides a summary of discussion at an international conference of human rights professionsls in 1982. Covers a wide range of subjects, from women's access to positions of economic power, to day care facilities as a means of expanding choices of both women and men who work in or out of the home. (KH)
Descriptors: Civil Liberties, Equal Opportunities (Jobs), Feminism, Foreign Countries
Morand, Martin J. – 1989
Hopes of U.S. union leaders for the movement's survival have been increasingly pinned on adoption of Canada-like labor legislation. Canadian labor legislation is in large part provincially based. This suggests that the states should legislate labor law. Highly improbable pro-union changes in labor law are needed to ensure the survival of unions.…
Descriptors: Adult Education, Employer Employee Relationship, Federal Legislation, Foreign Countries
Robinson, Norman; Munton, Patricia D. – 1989
This study investigated the phenomena of strike propensity and strike compliance among teachers in an illegal teachers' strike that occurred in British Columbia, Canada, in 1983. A questionnaire developed for this study was distributed in early 1984 to a random sample of 1,000 teachers from eight school districts; a total of 456 responded. The…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Foreign Countries, Labor Problems, Labor Relations
Directory of Faculty Contracts and Bargaining Agents in Institutions of Higher Education. Volume 19.
Annunziato, Frank R. – 1993
This directory reports on faculty contracts and bargaining agents in higher education in the United States in 1992. An introductory section examines two conflicting trends characterizing faculty higher education collective bargaining activities during 1992--the number of collective bargaining agents increased to an all time high of 484, but the…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, Contracts, Faculty Organizations, Foreign Countries
Directory of Faculty Contracts and Bargaining Agents in Institutions of Higher Education. Volume 20.
Annunziato, Frank R. – 1994
This report presents information on faculty contracts and bargaining agents in public and private institutions of higher education. It begins with a listing of higher education institutions, by state, indicating the bargaining agent representing the regular college faculty, the unit size, date of current agent election, date of initial contract,…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, College Faculty, Contracts, Elections
Dowdell, Graham – 1994
A project explored and addressed the communication barriers to union participation of stewards and members of the Amalgamated Clothing and Textile Workers Union (ACTWU). A questionnaire was developed and distributed to over 300 ACTWU members; 153 responded. Other commitments and communication skills were identified as key barriers to greater…
Descriptors: Access to Education, Adult Basic Education, Basic Skills, Communication Skills
Sterret, Grace; Aboud, Antone – 1982
Since the 1960s, the number of strikes by public employees, especially local government employees, has increased, and the number of employees belonging to unions or associations has about tripled. Recently, attention has been focused on strikes by public employees as a result of the strike in 1981 by air traffic controllers and their subsequent…
Descriptors: Adults, Arbitration, Collective Bargaining, Court Litigation
Directory of Faculty Contracts and Bargaining Agents in Institutions of Higher Education. Volume 17.
Douglas, Joel M.; Havey, L. William – 1991
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…
Descriptors: Collective Bargaining, College Faculty, Contracts, Directories
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