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Antonucci, Mike – Education Next, 2010
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…
Descriptors: Elementary Secondary Education, Unions, Political Campaigns, Union Members
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Beach, Dennis; Carlen, Margata – Journal for Critical Education Policy Studies, 2009
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…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Building Trades, Unions, Administrators
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Lin, Ming-Jen – Journal of Human Resources, 2008
OLS may understate the effect of unemployment on crime because of the endogeneity problem (Raphael and Winter-Ember 2001). In this paper, we use changes in the real exchange rate, state manufacturing sector percentages, and state union membership rates as novel instrumental variables to carry out 2SLS estimations. We find a one-percentage-point…
Descriptors: Unemployment, Crime, Employment Patterns, Manufacturing
Malfaro, Louis – American Educator, 2010
School systems sometimes make promises they have no intention of keeping. Other times, they can deliver a world of opportunities to the neediest children. They may or may not want to listen to parents or even teachers, but school systems always attend to the demands of the most powerful individuals and institutions in their communities. For the…
Descriptors: Teaching (Occupation), Unions, Collective Bargaining, Power Structure
Lips, Dan – Heritage Foundation, 2010
Across the United States, policymakers are increasingly adopting education policies that give families the power to choose their children's schools. Nonetheless, the idea of providing school vouchers to allow children to attend private schools remains controversial. For instance, congressional leaders and the Obama Administration have tried to end…
Descriptors: Private Schools, School Choice, Foreign Countries, Educational Vouchers
Kleiner, Morris M.; Krueger, Alan B. – National Bureau of Economic Research, 2008
This study provides the first nation-wide analysis of the labor market implications of occupational licensing for the U.S. labor market, using data from a specially designed Gallup survey. We find that in 2006, 29 percent of the workforce was required to hold an occupational license from a government agency, which is a higher percentage than that…
Descriptors: Certification, Incidence, Labor Market, Union Members
Heiser, David P. – ProQuest LLC, 2010
United States workers are facing a workplace in which globalization, outsourcing, accelerating technology innovation, and changing demographics demands changes in the way they keep their job skills current. As a primary representative of workers' interests in the workplace, unions want their members to acquire and improve the skills, knowledge,…
Descriptors: Electronic Learning, Learning Strategies, Global Approach, Lifelong Learning
Kniffin, Kevin M. – Cornell Higher Education Research Institute, 2010
After nearly four decades of campaigning, faculty and academic staff union members across the University of Wisconsin (UW) System won the right to bargain collectively in June 2009 when the Governor signed legislation that modified state labor law. In this paper, I present historical and interdisciplinary analyses of the organizational structures…
Descriptors: Labor Legislation, Unions, State Government, Union Members
Hoff, David J. – Education Week, 2008
Every day, 14 retired teachers and other school employees arrive at the Philadelphia Federation of Teachers' headquarters and go to work for Hillary Rodham Clinton. The retirees--working with volunteers and union staff members from as far away as Alaska--are working to inform teachers' union members why the American Federation of Teachers (AFT)…
Descriptors: Federal Legislation, Unions, Union Members, Political Issues
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Dodge, Jennifer L.; Mills, Paul K.; Riordan, Deborah G. – Journal of Rural Health, 2007
Context: Although epidemiologic studies have identified elevated cancer risk in farmworkers for some cancer types, little is known about cancer survival in this population. Purpose: To determine if cancer survival differs between a Hispanic farmworker population and the general Hispanic population in California. Methods: Hispanic United Farm…
Descriptors: Males, Cancer, Agricultural Laborers, Union Members
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Martin, Andrew W. – Social Forces, 2007
Robert Michels' famous "iron law of oligarchy" has come under criticism from scholars that question assumptions regarding the concentration of power within social movement organizations (SMOs). Despite such concerns, Michels' broader interests in organizational structure and power continue to be relevant for analyzing the goals and…
Descriptors: Resource Allocation, Unions, United States History, Power Structure
Robelen, Erik W. – Education Week, 2006
After years of tense relations between teachers' unions and the growing charter school movement, unions are stepping up their efforts to organize educators at the independent public schools. So far, the results of the increased organizing activity-which stretches from Massachusetts and Pennsylvania to California appear modest. But it remains to be…
Descriptors: Unions, Charter Schools, Teachers, Group Membership
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Cooper, Bruce S.; Sureau, John – Educational Policy, 2008
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.…
Descriptors: Working Class, Charter Schools, Federal Legislation, Collective Bargaining
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Costa-Font, Joan; Wittenberg, Raphael; Patxot, Concepcio; Comas-Herrera, Adelina; Gori, Cristiano; di Maio, Alessandra; Pickard, Linda; Pozzi, Alessandro; Rothgang, Heinz – Social Indicators Research, 2008
This study examines the sensitivity of future long-term care demand and expenditure estimates to official demographic projections in four selected European countries: Germany, Spain, Italy and the United Kingdom. It uses standardised methodology in the form of a macro-simulation exercise and finds evidence for significant differences in…
Descriptors: Health Services, Expenditures, Foreign Countries, Union Members
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Moore, Sian; Ross, Cilla – Journal of In-service Education, 2008
This article suggests that the union learning representative (ULR) is increasingly situated at the heart of trade union activity. The paper draws upon recent research based on interviews with national trade union officers and case studies of union learning activity to explore the competing demands being made upon ULRs and the implications for…
Descriptors: Lifelong Learning, Unions, Case Studies, Role Perception
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