In "Janus v. American Federation of State, County, and Municipal Employees, Council 31", the U.S. Supreme Court ended the practice of enabling public-sector unions to collect "fair-share" or "agency" fees from employees who decline to join. Although federal law prohibits requiring workers to join a union as a…

Purpose: Work-place learning takes place in many settings and in different ways, resulting in knowledge and skills of different kinds. The recognition process in the work place is however often implicit and seldom discussed in terms of recognition of prior learning (RPL). The aim of this paper is to give examples of how the knowledge/skills of…

Performance-based compensation systems have been under discussion for years and are now a required component of any state plan for Race to the Top funds. This article describes a system of performance-based compensation that has been in place at a K-12 school for the past four years. The system was developed by a team of teachers, union members,…

The head gangman in the Swedish building trade is a worker elected organiser in a gang comprising between about 4 and 16 workers and an "on-site" and trained representative of the trades union. In 2002 the employer association for the building industry in Sweden (BI) and the Swedish Building and Allied Trades Union (SBATU) signed a joint…

Describes what has happened since a group of San Francisco school administrators joined the Teamsters Union. (Author/DN)

Discusses the unionization movement among middle-level administrators in public schools and describes some of the characteristics of the unions. (Author)

Outlines some of the changes in administrative roles resulting from collective bargaining, explores the reasons administrators form collective bargaining units, and considers some recommendations regarding the problems of administrators. (Author/RK)

Salary data for 670 local building trades unions indicates that the salaries of local union business agents are related to the members' salaries and to the business agents' bargaining performance. Findings are related to other public and private organizations. (MF)

An intensive study of 30 Florida school districts explored the nature of open bargaining, its impact on union and management behavior, and its overall effect on the negotiation process. The author concludes that open bargaining does not differ radically from closed bargaining. (Author/WD)

This report contains information on State-by-State membership in the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) locals in 1974; comparative national AFT membership data for the years 1970 through 1974; information on State federations and their officers; AFT administrator locals; percent of instructional staff in the United States by members of the AFT…

When nonteaching professionals are members of a faculty union, what effect does it have on interstaff relationships and programs? Should campus administration opt for one union or for separate unions for nonteaching professionals? A study of these issues at 18 four-year higher education institutions (comprising 54 campuses) and 72 two-year…

The impact of the unionization of college and university faculty is examined, based on a 1979 survey of 240 nonunionized colleges and all other unionized institutions, and on a review of recent literature on collective bargaining. The survey is a followup of a 1974 survey pertaining to collective bargaining and a 1971 survey concerned with general…

In higher education collective bargaining litigation, the determination of which academic personnel will be included in bargaining units has resulted in many contradictions. Supervisory and managerial personnel have been included with faculty in some schools, and excluded in others. Law and medical school faculty, support staff, and part-time…