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Blickle, Gerhard; Oerder, Katharina; Summers, James K. – Journal of Vocational Behavior, 2010
Works councillors are elected representatives of employees in German companies. It is their job to protect and bargain the interests of the employees with the company. We investigated the impact of 558 works councillors' individual political skill on their career success, where career ascendancy is based on success in upward elections and not on…
Descriptors: Employees, Unions, Union Members, Career Development
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Tryjankowski, Anne Marie; Henry, Julie J.; Verrall, Eon – Leadership and Policy in Schools, 2012
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,…
Descriptors: Teacher Salaries, Charter Schools, Elementary Secondary Education, Union Members
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Stirling, John – McGill Journal of Education, 2013
This article presents an analysis of the development of a trade union education program in Sierra Leone in the geo-historical context of British colonialism. It places the argument in relation to the contradictory trends of trade unionism more generally and alongside their antagonistic cooperation with capitalism. It discusses the limits and…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Union Members, Land Settlement, Power Structure
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Corcoran, Sean P.; Stoddard, Christiana – Education Finance and Policy, 2011
The expansion of charter schools--publicly funded, yet in direct competition with traditional public schools--has emerged as a favored response to poor performance in the education sector. While a large and growing literature has sought to estimate the impact of these schools on student achievement, comparatively little is known about demand for…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, School Choice, Educational Policy, Elections
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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
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D'Amico, Deborah – Adult Learning, 2011
To provide equitable access to formal, nonformal and workplace learning, experts urge community, business, education and government partnerships. While membership in unions continues to decline and "opportunities for entry-level workers to become skilled workers is lessening," the partnership described in this article shows that it is…
Descriptors: Labor Force Development, Urban Universities, Partnerships in Education, Adult Education
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Stuit, David A.; Smith, Thomas M. – Economics of Education Review, 2012
This study uses national survey data to examine why charter school teachers are more likely to turnover than their traditional public school counterparts. We test whether the turnover gap is explained by different distributions of factors that are empirically and theoretically linked to turnover risk. We find that the turnover rate of charter…
Descriptors: Charter Schools, Public School Teachers, Teacher Persistence, Unions
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Brown, Tony; Yasukawa, Keiko – Australian Journal of Adult Learning, 2009
Australian trade unions are at a pivotal moment. In 2007-2008, a review of the training and education programs of the Education and Campaign Centre (ECC), the education arm of the Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU), was conducted through a series of interviews with leaders of twenty-five unions. The review found that Australian unions do…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Unions, Union Members, Labor Education
Sternberg, Don – Principal, 2011
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…
Descriptors: Unions, Educational Change, Principals, Presidents
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Gumus, Murat; Hamarat, Bahattin; Colak, Ertugrul; Duran, Erol – Career Development International, 2012
Purpose: This paper aims to explore the effects of two work related identification (occupational and organizational) of school teachers on intention to early retirement (withdrawal) and satisfaction with the occupation and satisfaction with the school. It also seeks the influence of perceived external prestige on withdrawal and satisfaction.…
Descriptors: Teacher Retirement, Job Satisfaction, Reputation, Intention
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Terriquez, Veronica – American Sociological Review, 2011
Scholars have long argued that civic organizations play a vital role in developing members' civic capacity. Yet few empirical studies examine how and the extent to which civic skills transfer across distinct and separate civic contexts. Focusing on Latino immigrant members of a Los Angeles janitors' labor union, this article fills a void by…
Descriptors: Citizenship Education, Labor, Interviews, Unions
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Kopsen, Susanne – Journal of Workplace Learning, 2011
Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to analyze learning in a Swedish trade union board in a workplace, according to contemporary challenges in working life and conditions, of decentralization and local independency of trade union work and learning. Design/methodology/approach: The paper is based on ethnographic studies of two Swedish local trade…
Descriptors: Workplace Learning, Ethnography, Unions, Learning Processes
Moe, Terry – Brookings Institution, 2011
Why are America's public schools falling so short of the mark in educating the nation's children? Why are they organized in ineffective ways that fly in the face of common sense, to the point that it is virtually impossible to get even the worst teachers out of the classroom? And why, after more than a quarter century of costly education reform,…
Descriptors: Public Schools, Labor Legislation, Interests, Collective Bargaining
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Brown, Tony; Yasukawa, Keiko – Studies in Continuing Education, 2010
The last quarter century saw a restructuring of employment, production and trade and a dramatic decline in union membership and density levels. There are many explanations for this, including the hostile industrial relations framework imposed by many governments, but there have been other factors such as the growth of new non-unionized industries…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Union Members, Unions, Job Training
Downs, Philip G. – ProQuest LLC, 2012
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…
Descriptors: Accountability, Educational Legislation, Federal Legislation, State Legislation
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